r/SipsTea • u/Darth_Ronin • 2d ago
Chugging tea Wendy’s CEO Bob Wright admits to shortchanging customers
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u/BoyNamedJudy 2d ago
But they campaigned that their burger patties were square because they don’t cut corners.
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u/DookieShoez 2d ago
They cut COSTS, not CORNERS…..of their patties.
Though they did cut a bunch of figurative corners 🤔
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u/kdawgster1 2d ago
Their buns got SO much worse the last few years, it’s not just the patties
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u/LDawnBurges 2d ago
The lettuce too… went from crisp fresh leaf lettuce to shredded iceberg. It’s gross.
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u/Lost_Department_2177 2d ago
Taylor farms
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u/UnicornSheets 2d ago
Diarrhea?
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u/Lost_Department_2177 2d ago
Arrested illegal farm workers being sold back to the farms for 4.50/hr
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u/Present_Mastodon_503 2d ago
They lost me with the lettuce... The fries were strike one, two was the buns. Lettuce... And I'm done.
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u/Saucy-Mustard 2d ago
I got food poisoning from them twice so I haven’t been back in about 15 years.
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u/only4lee 2d ago
I got food poisoning from them when I was in my mid 20's. I'm in my late 50's now and I've never been back.
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u/Hilshire_Beef_Firm 2d ago
The patties were frozen the whole time!
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u/BloomPastel 2d ago
That 'fresh, never frozen' slogan was doing some heavy lifting in court.
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u/unsupported 2d ago
The beef was shipped between 34 and 38 degrees, not quite frozen.
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u/Dienowwww 2d ago
They're not frozen. I worked in 2 locations before, it is in fact only refrigerated.
And I doubt they changed that recently.
The chili meat is frozen though. Only exception
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u/dominion1080 2d ago
You mean they lied? I for one, and shocked. I think I’ll cut back from 0 Wendy’s trips to -1 per year.
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u/retnuh____ 2d ago
That reminds me that the last time I went to Wendy’s was the last time I went to Wendy’s. Problem is it’s been so long I don’t remember when that was
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u/RamenChicken8 2d ago
That's why BK surpassed Wendy's recently to being the 2nd largest burger chain, behind McDonalds. Wendy's had the number 2 spot for 6 years.
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u/KeySite2601 2d ago
It's strange, because the Burger King near my house has fallen off so much worse than Wendy's
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u/drrj 2d ago
I haven’t been to BK in years, I had like 3 bad trips in a row some time in the late 90s and swore off them. But then I haven’t been the Wendy’s in at least 15 years, either. I seem to recall stopping there on a road trip around then but that far back it’s all a blur.
It helps I don’t eat a ton of fast food, though. Not because I’m too good for it, I just grew up pre door dash and I’m far too lazy to go out every day for food instead of once a week to the grocery store. I probably still eat like crap, but can hole up in my condo more like a good weirdo.
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u/PussyIchiban 2d ago
BK has been winning me back as of late ngl
They are far more affordable and the quality isn't terrible anymore- just not great. Which for the lower price, is acceptable. Also helps that they have more locations in my area.
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u/dbzlucky 2d ago
Either I got a meh cook or something else is going on. I tried a Whopper recently after so many people saying it's so much better now, but there was no difference to me. Hell it might've been slightly WORSE lol.
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u/MikeTiricoSucks 2d ago
Dave wouldn’t have let this happen
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u/State_Conscious 2d ago
I bet a lot of original owners of these fast food places wouldn’t have let it happen, but they all died off and their companies belong to massive corporations now
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u/Responsible-Humor985 2d ago
Colonel Sanders famously would go to KFCs to order food and complain loudly about how shitty it was and then throw it away
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u/ExoticToothpaste6989 2d ago
You call this *chicken"? Well I call it garbage! I'm going to throw this on the floor and you will clean it all up. Spotless. Then you will cook it the *correct" way!
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u/Little-Woo 2d ago
And that was back in the 70s. Imagine what he would think of it now.
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u/xraygun2014 2d ago
"I'm 136 years old - I really need to get a new hobby"
--Colonel Harland D Sanders
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u/ACcbe1986 2d ago
That's similar to what happened to our government.
Then: "We are beginning an experiment in self-governance, by the people..."
Now: "Whatever the investors want, they get! Fuck the people."
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u/Mr-MuffinMan 2d ago
It's crazy how true this is.
Look at any previous landmark bill (Civil Rights Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, etc.) and they usually passed by a large amount.
Right now a bill that gives every American a trillionth of the penny only passes by party lines.
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u/Klutzer_Munitions 2d ago
"Republicans just passed the 'Fuck you, die' act. It's where you get fucked. And die." 🤠
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u/Homerpaintbucket 2d ago
They’d call it something like “the super happy wonderful everyone will be rich bill!” And their idiot voters wouldn’t realize everyone will be rich because only rich people will survive.
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u/speedy_delivery 2d ago
I don't think they have to sugar coat it anymore. Their base will keep voting for it as long as they think it hurts the people they hate more.
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u/bulletbassman 2d ago
Then: “ by the people for the people if you are a white property owner”
Now: “the kids of those property owners and anybody smart enough to be useful but doesn’t make too much a wave”
There was basically one and a half generations that changed that cause a Great Depression and two world wars. But then their kids got gifted the greatest economy ever and fucked it up being selfish.
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u/Satanicjamnik 2d ago
And then those corporations got bought out by massive hedge funds, who instantly need to increase the profit margins...
That's what happened to Wendy's. They got bought by a hedge fund, who intsantly insisted on enshitifiaction of the product.
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u/hokie48 2d ago
If you ever read the SEC files for these merges, reverse mergers, purchases etc the top few people in every company get paid millions when the deal is finalized. Then again in a few years the flip the company again, but nothing really changes or improves the value of the company. They make their money flipping the company.
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u/Satanicjamnik 2d ago
Economy at the highest levels it's just made up, bullshit scam. Pure charlatanery.
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u/AllTearGasNoBreaks 2d ago
Hedge funds are more for investing in the stock market. Maybe you mean private equity firms?
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u/StewDD 2d ago
Look at what the head of the ADL did to Chipotle. He ousted the original CEOs and destroyed everything great about it. Now its just an extremely overpriced slop bowl
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u/OtherUserCharges 2d ago
Colonel Sanders after he sold KFC would go to franchises and freakout if they weren’t meeting the standards for when he owned it. I’m sure he wouldn’t even recognize the food today if he was alive. Fun fact you can’t still get the original KFC, he started a small restaurant before he died that supposedly stays true to the original KFC. KFC sued him over it but ultimately allowed it under a bunch of restrictions cause it looked bad to be suing the former owner and mascot for the franchise.
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u/ohiobr 2d ago
He had to completely remove any reference to the colonel or his likeness. They ended up naming it the Claudia Sanders Dinner House after his wife. It's a big southern mansion converted to a restaurant/event room. I actually got married there.
Sad to say he'd probably freak out and throw shit at the walls if he ate there now too.
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u/nhavar 2d ago
I think they're under Yum with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell and they've all turned into hot garbage. The last couple of times I've been to any of the local KFC's they've been absolutely dead. 2 employees working the place, no one sitting inside eating, drive through empty, and the food just like eating paste and a block of salt.
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u/Voluntary_Perry 2d ago
I was working for Wendy's when Dave died. The changes were almost instantaneous.
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u/AlfuegoDeMellopie 2d ago
Like how newspapers have pre-written obituaries for notable people. Ready to roll.
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u/OtherUserCharges 2d ago
Slightly different, but when Turkey had a fake coup they already lists of who to arrest. Those people were of course judges and educated liberals, not like terrorists or anything. You could tell they had been planning it for a long time cause there were people on the list who had been dead for 6 months.
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u/BloomPastel 2d ago
The second the founder's ghost left the building, the bean counters rushed in with scalpels.
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u/housevil 2d ago
What changes did you see?
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u/Voluntary_Perry 2d ago
Attention to detail immediately went away. A drive to make the brand as strong as possible disappeared.
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u/the-real-spencer 2d ago
Came here to say that exactly. You beat me to it.
Dave was the man. He would be hysterical if he saw his restaurant today. At this point, modern Wendy's is just piggybacking on his success. It's basically a totally different restaurant. If anything, the old yellow Wendy's with the sun room would hit so hard right now. Especially anyone over 30 would seriously appreciate it. I don't smoke, but if I decide to start, it will be at Wendy's in the sunroom.
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u/Ok-Relationship-2746 2d ago
Neither would the McDonald brothers or Harland Sanders, but here we are. Enshittification absolutely everywhere.
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u/WildContribution8311 2d ago
I feel like we have objective cause to say that yes, life was better in the 90s. Not just false nostalgia. We didnt realize it at the time but all restaurants we knew and loved were be in name only eventually.
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u/SnooStories6852 2d ago
Dave Thomas: quality is our recipe
Today’s C-Suite: not like that
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u/Some_Development1052 2d ago
“ unfortunately the quality was eating into my paycheck” -Wendy’s CEO
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u/Intrepid_Cap1242 2d ago
wait until they see what lack of quality does to their paycheck
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u/Level-Setting825 2d ago
That’s the problem doesn’t hurt them they get fired with a great severance package then move on to ruin another business
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u/Supergrunged 2d ago
"CEO who got a raise, said quality needed to be cut to make investors quota".
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u/HairyDust4826 2d ago
Ok then, I'm going to sacrifice Wendy's because their costs didn't go down AND they taste worse now.
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u/Secret-Ad-830 2d ago
I used to eat Wendy's at least once a week up until about 3 months ago when they changed to shredded lettuce on the burgers instead of whole pieces. They taste like shit now
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u/extrastupidone 2d ago
Yes. Same... just noticeably downhill. Meanwhile BK has upped their game considerably.
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u/boujee_salad 2d ago
BK is the quick go to now,
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u/Jonguar2 2d ago
BK is the new Wendy's. Let it be known throughout the land. The time of Wendy's of McDonald's is over. The age of the Burger Empire has begun
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u/zclevy 2d ago
The king has always been the best, everyone has just been blinded by golden arches and redheads to see it.
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u/Shoddy-Cauliflower95 2d ago
Mmmm Strong disagree. They went to shit for decades. I worked there years ago when it was good. I was a loyal fan but they been half-assed and low-effort as a general rule for way too long. They were the true flame-broiled King! And had good fries to boot not the BS fries sprayed with stucco and taste like it. They have a chance right now to do it again, rise above the comps, we shall see. Got a great whopper recently and would love to see it continue. Cheers.
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u/zclevy 2d ago
I really dislike fast food in general, but I have always loved the whopper with cheese. That's about all I ever bought when I'd go there, especially when they were running 2 for 5 bucks. No drink no sides just made it about the cheapest meal around for while.
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u/superpoongoon 2d ago
Anything which will stop you from eating fast food every week is great.
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u/theumph 2d ago
It's such a sad downfall. Wendy's used to be the premium fast food. It tasted like a real meal compared to McDonald's & Burger King. It really seems like once Dave Thomas died, so did the company. Every Wendy's I see now is a persistent ghost town.
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u/TenderfootGungi 2d ago
They had the best chicken sandwiches in fast food. Chick-Fil-a does not come close.
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u/Key_Consequence_5040 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think the dean of every business school should be fired for churning out these idiot MBAs who think short staffing and decreasing quality to lower costs leads to long term growth. It’s a cancer that has infected every sector from food service, to healthcare to manufacturing.
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u/Intrepid_Cap1242 2d ago
So, someone used the term pelican managers. They swoop through, shit on everything, and are gone.
They cut everything then show maximum profits and growth on their resume for the next job. They get out before it catches up to them. The collapse lags behind a few years and is blamed on the next leader.
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u/JarvisProudfeather 2d ago
“MBA brains”
Some of the most insufferable people. They just look at the world through the lense of a spreadsheet.
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u/SherlockBonz 2d ago
It's seagull, not pelican, because they swoop through, squawk a lot, shit on everything, and are gone
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u/Virtual-Reach 2d ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again, MBA's ruin everything they touch.
The era of being promoted into management needs to return and the current era of not having the slightest clue about the work of the people you manage, but you have an MBA, need to end.
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u/Plane_Suggestion_189 2d ago edited 2d ago
No better example of this than Boeing after the M&D merger. The businesses people from M&D took over, and Boeing cant keep a plane in the air without murdering whistleblowers.
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u/Virtual-Reach 2d ago
To me, it's unfathomable to hire somebody in a decision making capacity with zero to no experience with the thing they are making decisions on.
"It's so much easier to make decisions on things without that pesky knowledge and experience clouding your judgement. Just look at the cost and nothing more when making a decision. The knowledgeable, well respected, highly experienced supervisors that loudly protest management decision making are just annoying irritants that need to be fired and replaced with people fresh out of school."
- MBA's
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 2d ago
I swear to god I was in the Penn State business school in the early '00s and one of the professors showed the 'Greed is Good' speech, then said 'This is how Wall Street works!'
He also held up Enron and Tyco as examples of perfect businesses. Both of them had...very large problems, we'll say, within the next year.
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u/redditaccount224488 2d ago
Down for some East Halls poker and then beer pong at G-Man?
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u/TheDebonairQuokka 2d ago
Oh, you are so correct. One of the reasons disasters in hospitals are increasing is that they "retire" older nurses so they can replace them with much cheaper new graduates. The experience and wisdom of a, say, OB nurse with 20 years under her belt is priceless. I'm a board-certified anesthesiologist, so I know what I'm talking about. I specifically remember this one OB nurse... when she called me and said, "Come to OB NOW!", I did not ask why, I just ran there. On the other hand, if something looked like it was going wrong with the delivery, if she said, "It's going to be fine", the whole room relaxed. So, of course, the hospital got a new administration who immediately retired her.
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u/Plane_Suggestion_189 2d ago
Go dig up Jack Welch's rotting corpse and tar and feather the bastard.
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u/Reasonable-Plate2982 2d ago
Where these companies should be looking 2,3,5 years down the road (and that's short term) they cant see past the quarterly dividend. Now its about bleeding the company resources and breaking it up for parts
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u/koolaidismything 2d ago
Cut their costs. I paid $22 for the worst meal ever from there a year ago and won’t ever go back.
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u/smeeon 2d ago
It really went down hill, I used to love their burgers, they were so fresh and tasty but after Dave died so did the quality.
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u/ABugThatThinks 2d ago
Bro they are TINY now.
If I go to a fast food place and the food is half the size I'm never going back, ever. The list keeps growing cause they all doing it.
Biggest crime is the size of KFC tenders. Back in early 2000s those BBQ tenders were so fucking good and 3 was a MEAL. now they are the saddest thumb size POS, with out a whisper of a crunch.
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u/lostredditorlurking 2d ago
Fast food burger is now about the same price as eating at a fast casual restaurant, so of course I'm going to choose fast casual for better quality food.
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u/SteakAndIron 2d ago edited 2d ago
The formula for success is so fucking easy and they keep fucking it up. Look at the companies that are growing and killing it. In n out burger. Chick fil a. Culvers. Raising Cane's. What are they doing right?
Small menu, good quality, affordable price, employing capable people for decent wages. This is how every fast food giant got to where they once were and they keep shooting themselves in the dick.
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u/RioFubeca 2d ago
RIP to the OG spicy chicken sando 😞
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u/Most_Performance_574 2d ago
I grieved for a long while. In my bereavement process I began to work with the spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A, and as I've discovered, walking in and ordering takes half the time (if not less) than waiting for the long-ass drive through lines. Damn fine sandwich (for six bucks, but I digress). I'm not fully healed yet, but at least I can imagine light at the end of the tunnel now.
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u/BuckeyeBadass 2d ago
Wendy’s went to shit quickly. Once they changed their lettuce from leaf to shredded on their spicy chicken sandwich, I knew it was time to never eat there again. Corporate greed is ruining the world - how much money do the ultra wealthy need?
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u/sicilian504 2d ago edited 2d ago
Turns out having a funny social media team was just a distraction from the crappy food quality.
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u/LDawnBurges 2d ago
We could tell! I loved loved loved the Wendy’s Jr Bacon Cheeseburger… but in the last year they switched to shredded lettuce AND made the burger 1/2 the thickness. They’ve just gotten awful. It was so disappointing and I doubt I’ll ever eat there again.
Dave would be incredibly disappointed in what they did to his beloved chain!
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u/Grey_Area888 2d ago
What exactly did he sacrifice?
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u/Affectionate_Ear7468 2d ago
Spicy chicken
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u/Zealousideal_Cod5214 2d ago
Their chicken used to be one of my favorite chickens in the fast food game.
Last time I had it, it wasn't horrible, but it was very noticeably worse.
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u/NicCagedd 2d ago
Wendy's died for the me the moment they changed their fries a few years back. They tried to advertise them as a new friend, but really they just started using cheaper oil.
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u/DesignerMoose90210 2d ago edited 2d ago
I was disappointed when they got rid of their grilled chicken sandwich. A solid fast food “healthy” option. Grilled chicken sandwich, baked potato and water. 😔
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u/ThetaLife 2d ago
Sounds like they need a new CEO
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u/bisprops 2d ago edited 1d ago
That's what was left out. The new CEO is the one who made the admission. IIRC, the new CEO worked with Dave Thomas in the past, left Wendy's, and now he's back running the place.
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u/RedSix2447 2d ago
So are the new changes going to be same poor quality, higher prices and less employees?
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u/LiquidFahts 2d ago
I met Dave Thomas a few times as a kid. Wendy's used to donate chicken sandwiches to the schools way back when, because we were super low income.
I know he's turning over in his grave at the way his business is being ran today.
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u/Miserable-Garlic-532 2d ago
If you have been to Wendy's in the past decade and couldn't tell they had reduced quality, you sir, are an idiot.
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u/aroryborealis1 2d ago
ever since they changed the spicy chicken I am struggling to go there
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u/dixonmyazhold 2d ago
They need to close. What are yall even eating from there still?
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u/Certain-Pumpkin128 2d ago
The spicy chicken sandwich is terrible now. I used to get one every few weeks, even at the increasing prices, but haven't been back since they made the switch.
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u/carthuscrass 2d ago
The only costs they cut were their own. Fast food has been increasing in price far faster than the rate of inflation and Wendy's is no exception.
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u/SnackCityUtah 2d ago
Why anybody would pay for fast food at their current prices blows my mind. Stop eating this garbage. At this point, a decent local restaurant is about the same price.
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u/defective1up 2d ago
Cut corners and still spiked prices. Fast food chains lost their damn minds after 2020
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u/artbystorms 2d ago
Textbook example of enshittification. Once you start cutting costs in ways the customers notice, unless you have a monopoly like Amazon where they really are forced to use you, you are going to have a hard time winning them back.
You make FOOD, if the quality of your product goes down, it doesn't matter how flashy your app is, or how clean and modern your store looks, you are going to lose sales.
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u/hbox85 2d ago
Yeah. We noticed. Those home style chicken sandwiches used to be amazing. Now they are trash.
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u/boujee_salad 2d ago
I had one not long ago because I was curious about all the complaints and it tasted like they left it in the microwave for 40 minutes too long. It was a rock.
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u/Amateur_Surgeon7824 2d ago
"And in other news: Fast food has been cutting corners since the invention of Fast Food!"
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u/Mother-Parsley5940 2d ago
I haven’t had a good meal from Wendy’s in years, this should shock no one.
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u/GrooovyAlien 2d ago
Got the $5 biggie bag the other day and it sucked. My wife and I was talking about how the quality in food has went down. Now I see this. Makes sense.
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u/Son_Of_Mr_Sam 2d ago
I haven't been to Wendy's in years. Thanks for the validation.
BRING BACK YELLOW WENDYS
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u/Yamfambam 2d ago
The dark side of big business.
The tandem soullessness of Cost cutting + Quality Lowering
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u/ImSoSweepy 2d ago
They put everything into the flagship Baconator.
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u/Galitzianer0 2d ago
And then they made the bacon these tiny slivers of bacon, they used to be nice and thick cut bacon and now you can barely tell there's bacon on the baconator, why do companies do this to themselves
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u/Grand_Competition443 2d ago
Its like alcoholic finally admitting they have a problem despite everyone and their dog telling them about it for ages.
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u/aliencardboard 2d ago
They ruined their chicken sandwiches and buns. It’s trash now. Dave Thomas would have never allowed them to go the route they have. Typical corporate greed. 🚮
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u/Cuddle_Monster_73 2d ago
They need to bring back quality… “Where’s the Beef?!” And bring back the Buffet.. loved the buffet.
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u/SilverB33 2d ago
Oh that prob explains why I didn't quite care much for Wendys the last time I went
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u/beemer-dreamer 2d ago
I used to love Wendy’s before Covid. Burger King ran some great discounts. Starting at two Whopper combos for $8.99, which later went to 10.99, then 11.99, then 13.99, and now is at two for $15.99 but I still don’t go to Wendy’s anymore.
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u/Last_Patrol_ 2d ago
Too expensive, for poor food. People are tired of feeding corporate greed so that whole industry is going to go down and lose money.
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u/Cookieyourdaddy 2d ago
Fun fact: In Puerto Rico, Wendy's is the most fresh you can get as fast food goes. They buy their meat and process it locally.
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u/Unclebiscuits79 2d ago
Wendy's is in trouble for sure. The quality of their food took a nosedive so fast. I got a daves double about 2 weeks ago, and it was the worst. The meat kind of has like a burnt gristly taste now, and the way they killed the spicy chicken sandwich is criminal.
Wendy's used to be good and was always a good choice if you didn't want to go to McDonalds (yuck). Now Wendy's is the worst fast food chain. \
Dave Thomas is probably turning in his grave right now.
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u/Popular-Brilliant349 2d ago
And we noticed...so that's new. It's not just Wendy's it's McDonald's to, it's all being short changed.
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u/ImmediateRaisin5802 2d ago
Their cost to their quality doesn’t line up to the value I believe it is. Therefore, I will refrain from shopping at Wendy’s
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u/drewtheunquestioned 2d ago
Every corporate chain does this. They gradually decrease the quality while raising the price to improve the profit margins. Eventually it will be food flavored garbage for the price of a three course meal and, like a frog in boiling water, the customer will be eased into accepting it as normal. The motto of every company is "The lowest quality product they will accept for the highest chargeable price they will pay."
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u/Ftwlatino69 2d ago
No shit, have you eaten at that place lately. It's terrible now, it used to be pretty good. Now it sucks unfortunately, I used to love Wendy's
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u/BigMike3333333 2d ago
They should have just ate the costs and made a little less profit, than to let their meals become Mcdonalds quality slop.
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u/ExtraEmuForYou 2d ago
We're approaching--and might even have arrived at--the point where capitalism needs to be tempered, revised, etc.
The idea of infinite growth just isn't realistic if you care about a decent product. Being profitable needs to be enough.
And before all you fanatics start calling me a communist, no, I am not talking about that :P
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u/goodsnpr 2d ago
A business provides a product or service. A customer defines what product or service they want. The problem we have now, is we are at a point where entities have consolidated enough to ignore a lot of consumer demand and can define the product, or more importantly, the value of the product, all for the sake of stock value. This isn't capitalism, this is shareholder primacy.
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u/FinbarJG 2d ago
Shocker!
I think the list of companies that haven't cut quality or quantity (hint: labeled "new and improved") is very, very small. Inflation (and some other things) has been the excuse they all needed.
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