Good riddance. I haven't given them a dime since their new CEO tried to make his mark at the company by introducing ~~dynamic pricing~~ price gouging.

Apparently that POS left Wendy's in July 2025 and now works at The Hershey Company, but the damage is done. I'm never going back. There are better local burger joints around here anyway.

"you'll continue to see hamburger innovation as we move throughout the year," Cook said.

Everyone eating real food elsewhere due to a lack of "hamburger innovation" at Wendy's, raise your hand. Thought so.

"Sir, this is..n't a Wendy's anymore. Hasn't been for, oh i don't know, years by now. Closed sometime during the Tramp Presidency mess."

Wendy's deserves to go under.

Few other places have hyper-inflated their prices to not pay their employees more nor improve their food quality quite like Wendy's has.

Culver's and maybe some local joints are some of the very last places its worth buying a burger from. Might as well solely make them at home for now on.

Just raise your prices more, I'm sure that'll help!

The Wendy's by me are all owned by the same guy and the service is terrible at all of them. I haven't been to one in years.

Too bad because it was great food in the 80s and 90s. Started to slip around 2010. Got pretty bad around 2015.

I’m sure a predatory shareholder scheme is at work here too

Funny, the only burger place I got to anymore is Wendy's.

Sir this is a Wendy’s

When all the combos are $10 or more, I no buy the burger anymore

Wendy's went to shit when they ruined their chicken sandwich by trying to copy Popeye's shitty sandwich and cheaping out on their french fries by leaving the shitty skin on them, ruining the cheese fries. They never had good burgers and the frosties were always outclassed by a real milkshake. And I ONLY went to Wendy's as a kid. Really fucking sucks they made the choices they did but at least now they are paying the price. Now if only pizzahut would get owned too for removing the nice dine in experiences with the saladbars for "modern" aesthetics.

Weirdly, and I don't know how long it's been there, I saw my first Wendy's in Australia recently. No intention of going but I wasn't aware they'd come here.

Edit: apparently it opened in November last year, and the first one was in January last year in Surfer's Paradise.

I went recently and it felt shallow and I instantly regretted from a $$ and upset stomach standpoint.

It always cracks me up to see how pissed off at fast food restaurants people on social media get over really specific things like “I’ll never eat at Wendy’s again after what they did to the chicken sandwich.” Or, “They ended 5 for 5 Tuesdays and since then I’ve never been back.”

It’s especially funny on Lemmy though where people are pretty left and in one comment calling for abolishing capitalism and in the next they’re getting pissed about how McDonald’s chicken nuggets only come with 4 pieces instead of 5 now, or something.

To me it’s all gross and not even food, so I don’t ever eat there. But, yes, abolish capitalism and don’t eat shitty corporate fast food.

Have they thought about not charging exorbitant prices on their food? I mean, a salad shouldn't cost ten bucks. Especially when they halved the god damn thing out of nowhere and pretended like they didn't. As one of the three people who enjoyed Wendy's salads, I fucking saw what you did.

Maybe they shouldn’t have started price gouging to such a ridiculous degree.

If Dave Thomas was still alive he would shut down all Wendy’s.

Another US company going under?

Oh noes.

Oh well.

Next.

Maybe nobody wants a $10 fast food burger

I'm eating out a lot less, these days. I used to head out for the day with the idea of grabbing lunch first, but now I usually eat lunch at home first. At the price of eating out, with the quality of fast food slipping so badly at the same time, it's cheaper and far more satisfying to eat at home anyway. I found myself eating some poor approximation of food, and wishing I had just made a sandwich at home, so that's what I started doing.

Wendy's has always my favorite burger joint, after Culver's, so my change in eating habits is directly contributing to their downfall.

The other lesson here is that if Wendy's is slipping this badly, so are all the others.

AND finally, this: If they are slipping so badly, and much of it due to rising labor costs, this will motivate them to start automating their fast food operations. Every fast food company has been researching robotic preparation, and they could easily implement it tomorrow. The only reason they haven't is because there will be a huge outcry when the first one does it. After that, they fall like dominos, and with a few years after the first one, ALL fast food restaurants will be mostly automated, and MILLIONS of fast food workers will lose their jobs. It is inevitable.

Cheap - Fast - Good

You only have to pick 2 to be successful as a fast food joint and they picked none.

Why did Wendy leave? The bacon ate her.

Sir, this isn't a Wendy's anymore.