Burger giant Wendy's signs deal to open 200 Australian stores by 2034 : australia

[+] Fluid@aussie.zone 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago

I'm waiting for the inevitable Carl's Jr implosion, no way those restaurants are sustainable businesses.

[-] Anonbal185@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

You don't even need to look at Carl's Jr. Just look at taco Bell I've walked past it and am convinced it's used as either money laundering or a tax write off. There's never anyone there.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nobody is in there because the food is beyond terrible. You don't get cheese for your taco, you get lettuce that has a dusting of cheese in it. It's dumb as hell.

[-] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

You're kind of not wrong. Collins Foods have just written of a $36.7 million impairment against the Taco Bell business, with Taco Bell stores posting a same-store sales decline of 4.8 per cent for the year.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/taco-bell-troubles-offset-kfc-boost-for-fast-food-operator-20230627-p5djpr.html

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 3 points 2 years ago

Bloody horrible

[-] MortyMcFry@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I had a carls jr burger the other day, and it was the driest burger patty I have ever had.

[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Wendy's in the US is actually one of the better day did restaurants. Still only about comparable to Australian KFC at best.

[-] CobraChicken@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Wendy's in Canada is excellent. Dave's Single and Double are the best fast food cheeseburgers IMO

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I tried a baconator once 15+ years ago in the US. It was advertised as having 10 rashers of bacon on it! I had to know for myself. I obviously bought fries and their signature Frosty (thickshake) too to get the full experience.

I learnt three things that day:

Americans call the streaky bacon bit a rasher. So they're about 3cm by 10cm, so not as hedonistic as imagined.
a manufactured food that is 1/3 fat has a surprising amount of structural integrity.
people dip their fries in their thickshakes.

I only ate salad for days afterwards. We really don't need Wendy's or even just another shit-tier burger place like them.

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

People who do number 3 should be rounded up and executed.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago

Missing out, dude. Back in my youth I used to stick fries in my caramel sundae at maccas. Delissssh

[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

A number three is diarrhoea isn't it?

[-] skellener@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

Sorry Australia. Just another shitty fast food place.

[-] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 11 points 2 years ago

Australia is already catching up to America on obesity rates. But fuck it let's just go full America on this shit.

[-] cnutfeelmylegs@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Come to Brisbane and you'll see we are much obesier than America

[-] Squidcopter@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to trying my first Hungry Wendy's here in Australia.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

I mean isn't there already wendys in Australia?

Im sure there was a wendys in the Northern Territory when i was a kid

[-] landsharkkidd@aussie.zone 12 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's a hotdog and ice cream chain. I wonder if they'll have to change the name similar to Hungry Jacks because Burger King was already a restaurant when they came over here.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

An, i always thought they were the same thing.

There's no longer a wendys in the Northern Territory so maybe they have gone under. If that's the case I'm sure wendys US would be able to buy name rights and go with it.

[-] Mountaineer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

They claim to still have 70 locations.

https://wendysmilkbar.com/

[-] landsharkkidd@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah there's one in the shopping centre where I live in Victoria.

[-] Silviecat44@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Theres still one in geelong (victoria)

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 4 points 2 years ago

Do we get a vote, before they come over?

[-] Ringmasterincestuous@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Lol - it’d be pretty uncharacteristic

[-] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You can vote with your wallet.

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Does this mean the Australian Wendy's stores have all gone? Our local one died in the pandemic, but I hadn't heard the whole company went under.

[-] surreptitiouswalk@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

My guess is they came to an agreement that their product offering is different enough that they can trade under the same name?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/27/fast-food-chain-wendys-plans-roll-out-in-australia-but-potential-naming-clash-looms

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

All the Americans are like "Wendys taste like shit" and my immediate snap back is "That's because America has terrible food standards".

Like yeah you wont die if you eat the food but you don't know if its bacon or 1-20 dead rats flat packed together. I hope they open one in Perth and its open at 2am every day

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago

sir, this is a Wendys

[-] NeedAnotherOne@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I do like me a Wendy's burger

[-] MaryTzu@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Goddamn rangas are taking over 😡

[+] kool_newt@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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