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[-] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 255 points 3 weeks ago

This is why I stopped ordering from them.

[-] loam@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Duranie@leminal.space 22 points 3 weeks ago

A couple months ago I went to a Wendy's and AI took my order.

That was the last time I went to a Wendy's.

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Where does one get this analysis?

[-] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 weeks ago

This is an app called "Goods Unite Us" on Android. I think they have a site and iPhone app too.

[-] nulluser@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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)?

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[-] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Or you can just use the website and not take up room on your device and let them data mine you.

[-] ninj4geek@lemmy.wtf 14 points 3 weeks ago

everything has to be an app needs to stop

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I could not agree more. One of the very worst things about the "modern" web.

https://xkcd.com/1174/

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[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 points 3 weeks ago

Good to know, thanks.

[-] DoGeeseSeeGod 14 points 3 weeks ago

Same I love me some Wendy's chicken nuggets and sandwich. A frosty once in a while is nice. Even enjoyed some of their breakfast stuff they added a few years back. Not a damn cent since Trump 2024/figured out they repub donors. Eat shit. Love driving by and seeing the Wendy's empty as fuck.

[-] RobMyBot@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago

I stopped ordering because the food is shit, but now I'll never give them another chance

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[-] TimboSlice@discuss.online 63 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

I ended up at one this weekend and was taken aback by the prices.

[-] dmtalon@infosec.pub 17 points 3 weeks ago

So, comparable to everyone else in their "food genre"

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[-] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 61 points 3 weeks ago

With how expensive fast food is now, you might as well just go to a slightly more expensive place and get a higher quality burger or whatever.

[-] Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

I used to love Wendy's and went to Wendy's a little while ago and just got a burger no fries nothing else and it was like 9 dollars. I was blown away and never want to go back. All these cheap chains jacked up their prices and saw temporary profits but then customers realize it's not a good deal and stop going. Late stage capitalism really sucks.

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[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 weeks ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Now it’s a weed shop.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Not for long!

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[-] f1error@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 14 points 3 weeks ago

Jesus christ...

Hope you're doing better.

[-] BanMe@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

4 years clean as of last month, thanks for caring :)

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[-] TronBronson@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

When I said bring back the 90s I did not mean health and food insecurity!

[-] sasquatch7704@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

But the CEO did receive his yearly 999999 milion dollar bonus, right?

[-] Ibex@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Of course he will as will the shareholders see record profits. Doesn’t matter if they kill the brand to do so either.

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[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago

Messed with the fries four times too many.

[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago
[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Have they tried enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings, along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling?

[-] pika@lemmy.today 12 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

They were the first to suggest dynamic pricing. It was received poorly.

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[-] jownz@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] DaMummy@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

OK, I've seen this episode before. Which Private Equity is it?

[-] comador@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

They merged with Arby's in 2008, so none.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

I’m guessing it’s really to extract shareholder wealth and then declare bankruptcy once everything has trickled up

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Have they tried not having shit food?

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

Wendy's uses prison slave labor

[-] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Change your fucking FRIES already! I love Wendy's hamburgers but I also like french fries and I will skip you and go to the MCDS right across the street. Not to mention the MCDS app let's me get crazy cheap deals on meals all month long. I can use the deal every day of the month. Another large chain that fell asleep at the wheel of complacency.

[-] moakley@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Must be a regional difference or something, because I recently had Wendy's and was impressed with how good their fries have gotten. Crispy and flavorful.

Meanwhile I haven't had a bite or sip of anything from McDonald's that wasn't absolute shit in like 20 years. I never loved McDonald's (I'm big on texture), but at least they used to have the best fries and sodas. Then they removed the beef tallow from the fries, making them the actual worst fast food fries available, and they replaced their soda fountains with Freestyle soda cloacas.

I already wasn't eating their meat because I like meat to be chewable, so that reduced the number of items I'll order from McDonald's to zero.

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

Please never say soda cloacas again... More people do not need to be cursed with this mental img

Dear God that's horrific

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[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Wendy's used to be good, but all the ones around me are not well run at all. Burger King is the same way.

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Those MOFO's forgot to put MEAT on my hamburger like 7 years ago. Never went back. Place is always empty as it should be.

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