This is why I stopped ordering from them.
Also, they have Palantir AI tangled in their management and running the supply chain.
The same company that is trying to make the entire world a surveillance state, and are giddy about their AI being used to kill military targets.
It’s completely on brand though.
CEO: I want to have state of the art AI-enabled surveillance on all aspects of our business. No vertical, no horizontal, no customer, will escape the gaze of our panopticon!
VP: Sir, this is Wendy’s.
I stopped ordering from them because they pay their employees garbage wages and expect them to perform like they’re being paid at a king’s ransom.
Case in point the Wendy’s near me was running with two people for over half a year. This was long after the pandemic by the way.
Where does one get this analysis?
This is an app called “Goods Unite Us” on Android. I think they have a site and iPhone app too.
Cool, but I’m skeptical of how accurate this is. According to the app, Amazon predominantly supports Democrats (by a 2 to 1 margin), and donated to Kamala but not the Orange Pedophile. That seems fishy seeing how Bezos was getting the VIP treatment at the inauguration. Am I misunderstanding something (won’t be the first time)?
It does seem out of date. I hadn’t used it in awhile. I hope it’s not shovelware.
TYVM!
Or you can just use the website and not take up room on your device and let them data mine you.
The app has zero permissions and takes up ~65MB.
The apple App Store shows lots of data linked to the user. Eh…
Oooo, that’s a neat site!
Good to know, thanks.
I stopped ordering because the food is shit, but now I’ll never give them another chance
so they did this to themselves. nice.
What a shame, I kinda liked their burgers back when meat didn’t make me kinda nauseous.
Damn now I have to add it to the list with Steak and Shake
I stopped ordering from them because of the heartburn and reflux. I stopped meeting friends there because of their morals. And I’ll mock them endlessly for sponsoring their own destruction.
I hope that the employees from all these Wendy’s (nutsonyourchin, I’m sorry!) land jobs at Costco and that local restaurants succeed at establishing roots in the ashes of this cursed company.
Go woke go broke lmfao
That Wendy is kind of a bitch wow
Wendy’s was a big part of my coming of age days…1$ double stacks sustained me during my senior year in HS…These days their food is shitty and overpriced.
I ended up at one this weekend and was taken aback by the prices.
So, comparable to everyone else in their “food genre”
Yes…
Yeah, we used to do the $4.20 meal. Four items off the dollar menu plus tax was $4.20, usually JBC, nugs, fries, frosted. Paired great with a joint. Many, many trips back in those days.
NJ changed their state tax, and thus ruined the $4.20 meal.
Sir, this was a Wendy’s.
Now it’s a weed shop.
Not for long!
Was looking for this comment. Was not disappointed.
The better of the national fast food chains imo. At least they used to be.
Fast food is supposed to be cheap. No reason to eat at these places anymore.
To be fair, ingredients have continued to climb in price, especially beef. The fast food model was always unsustainable without sacrificing quality even further and raising prices.
Fast food likely would have been fine… if wages increased as much as the prices did.
The fact that the minimum wage doesn’t increase every year, yet prices do, meant that this was always going to be a recipe for disaster.
Oh 100%, completely agree with you there.
Im not so sure.
Apparently the current CEO is only worth about 6mil. Fast food isn’t like Tesla or twitter so no billionaires I guess. Idk. How much upper management is there, what’s their salary and how actually valuable is there work? It’s just fast food. What about wall Street investors, how much do they get. How much is wasted on ads? Lots of supply chains in fast food too.
I just think when it comes to food there shouldn’t be any extreme wealth and profit. No megayachts, mansions, or Bentleys. I don’t see why the quality can’t be good, workers can’t be paid much better, and the prices can’t be cheaper. In our capitalist system some people are getting way more money that they did not earn and don’t deserve, at everyone else’s expense. But I admit I don’t know the numbers and 6mil for a CEO seems low (although I’d retire immediately with 6mil LOL).
The fast food model was always unsustainable without sacrificing quality even further and raising prices.
Not true. The people making 6 or 7 figures could all take a hit to their salaries and that would translate to lower prices for customers.
The problem is, why would they if they don’t have to?
shrinkflationed to hell, and people generally stopped eating there when there are better options.
In the late 80s and early 90s, Wendy’s was the best for dumpster diving. You could get a basketball-sized sphere of ground meat out of the trash around 2-3am. Peel off the outside inch or so, and you’d have meat for days.
Dominoes dumpsters were another source of awesomeness back then. It was a very different time.
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There’s a Wendy’s by me, a few summers ago in the drive thru lane cockroaches would just climb on your car, windshield, it was nasty as hell. This happened twice and I told a friend about it, and he’s like “Oh you mean the roach Wendy’s.” Sigh. I was coming down off meth binges so I didn’t really care, just needed enough hot food to pass out.
And that’s my pitch for a Wendy’s commercial, which hasn’t happened yet.
When I said bring back the 90s I did not mean health and food insecurity!
But the CEO did receive his yearly 999999 milion dollar bonus, right?
Of course he will as will the shareholders see record profits. Doesn’t matter if they kill the brand to do so either.
Wow, nine hundred ninety-nine billion, nine hundred ninety-nine million dollars! No wonder they’re not profitable!
Have they tried enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling?
Them suggesting dynamic pricing is why I stopped going there. …Well that, and because for the prices they are already charging, I can simply get better quality food.
They were the first to suggest dynamic pricing. It was received poorly.
Don’t give 'em ideas to drive it into the ground even faster! I didn’t GAF about the corporate jackasses, but plenty of low income people need their jobs - especially with what’s coming soon after all the fuckery Trump has been subjecting the country’s economy to.
Messed with the fries four times too many.
Yep their fries are awful
Their fries are super mid, but always had the better tasting burgers out of the FF chains in my town which balanced it out. Now it’s more like I don’t want to spend 10.89 on a basic burger only, not even a fucking combo.
I used to love Wendy’s! Then one day they shrunk the patty/tomato/lettuce they put on the JBC to the point where the thing is like 80% bun and I was done with them.
OK, I’ve seen this episode before. Which Private Equity is it?
They merged with Arby’s in 2008, so none.
They’re publicly traded but still have a high stock ownership by private equity. Arby’s is directly owned by private equity.
McDonald’s owned a large number of it’s locations prior to the real estate boom. As a consequence, they were more aptly described as a real estate management than food services business model by the late '00s.
A lot of their relative success has come from avoiding the crippling rent increases other fast food vendors have had to endure.
I’m guessing it’s really to extract shareholder wealth and then declare bankruptcy once everything has trickled up
I’ll guess something with “equity” or “capital” in its name is behind it.
Look at the prices of your salads and then deal with that! They were good salads (before out of the blue you halved the size as if we wouldn’t notice). You even upped the four-for-four without adding anything.
Wendy’s brought this on itself
Over the last ten years or so, every US restaurant got it in their head that salads should cost the same as every other meal on the menu. When I can make seven salads at home for less than the price of one at a restaurant, I’m simply going to make salads at home.
Wendy’s used to be good, but all the ones around me are not well run at all. Burger King is the same way.
Wendy’s uses prison slave labor
More details please!
The slavery part is because prisons use prisoners as slave labor with no rights to organize or unionize, negotiate wage or benefits or hours, etc. they are used for some of the most physically demanding and dangerous jobs or ‘leased’ to private businesses like equipment. Prisons, especially for profit anti human shitholes, use the 13th amendment as legal cover to abuse and oppress the people they are charged to protect and care for.
The Wendy’s part has two points: agriculture and to a lesser frequency staff at restaurants
Here’s a pretty thorough article including a history, mentions Wendy’s on page 10 with a link. It references a survey from 2016 where 76% of prisoner respondents reported they were threatened if they did not work.
https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2622&context=nyls_law_review
And a document including specific issues with Wendy’s and their corporate response
https://www.iccr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Wendys-2025-Exempt-Solicitation-FINAL-1.pdf
AP also ran a multi year investigation that showed how multiple major corporations including Wendy’s use prison slave labor while lying about supply chain ethics, but I don’t have a link to their detailed reporting just summaries
