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.

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!

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.

"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.

Cheap - Fast - Good

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

"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."

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

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

Why did Wendy leave? The bacon ate her.

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

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

Another US company going under?

Oh noes.

Oh well.

Next.

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.

I was eating something I made at home for lunch today and pondering how much it cost me for what was a good, hearty, healthy meal. Even eating in generous proportions, I was eating for about $2 a meal. I had carbs, fats, protein, fiber, and various minerals as well vitamins. I don't think I could get a single cheeseburger from Wendy's for that price. Even their cheap ones. As well it's not just them, it's all fast food. They forgot the idea is you go there, spend like $5 for a meal that you don't have to make at home. Giving some variety.

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

I wonder if they ever tried, ya know...making their food taste good?

They tried raising prices, they tried shrinkflation, they tried paying their employees as little as legally possible, they tried lowering staffing levels to the least number of employees humanly possible, they even floated the idea of surge pricing in fast food...but the whole time I've known Wendy's to exist, at least in my area, the burgers have been bland and the fries have been soggy and tasteless. And I'm old enough to remember Wendy's having a bland salad bar to go with the rest of their bland food.

Maybe nobody wants a $10 fast food burger

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.

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

When is the last time you saw a Wendy's ad?

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

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.

That sucks for me. I like their chicken honey biscuit sandwiches and Dave's Triples. Haven't gone often, due to money getting tighter.

Anyhow, time to use my leftovers for a midnight meal. I am using a $3 bowl of Nissin ramen, plus the remnants of a Kirkland pot roast and some buttered yams, alongside a spot of Better than Bullion.

I stockpile several of these pot roasts ($17ish apiece) each CostCo trip, and find them especially grand in a savory stew if I dice them up.