NonDawg So Wendys going with digital drive thru...so less people.....but also looking into "peak" pricing?
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“Hey Brad, where do you want to go to lunch?”
“Let’s go to the place that jacks up their prices during lunch!”
“Let’s go to the place that jacks up their prices during lunch!”
Well, that will make it easy for me. I simply won’t eat there. There is no surge - you know you are serving more at lunchtime.
And there is surge pricing on the rideshare companies because they have a fixed number of rides they can give at any point in time, there is no such constraint for a Wendy’s fast food restaurant. They know they’ll be selling more around lunchtime, so they simply make more burgers and buy more supplies.
This is a very high risk move that could alienate a lot of customers.
If I were Burger King, I would come out immediately and say that our price is always the same price.
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Some places a McD big mac meal is now $16-$17 dollars.......McD is crap. Even to feed 4 at Chik fila is almost $40.
I have a hard time believing this will actually happen but who knows
It's bad when I can get a cheaper lunch meal at Longhorns than Wendy's *
exactly its to the point where u can go sit in a restaurant and get decent food for the same or a little more $$$. They cant claim due to wages because they are all cutting staff.......
The other day I took a load to the landfill and my son came home from college to give me a hand…afterwards we stopped by Taco Bell and ordered 2 combo meals…nothing extra…was $24…I use to feed him there after practice when he was little for $5. The sad part is it’s not going to get any better.
Holy crap. Where is this? I just went online and checked, a Big Mac Meal is $8.49 at my local Micky D's.
Why McDonald’s is charging $18 for a Big Mac meal — and why there’s no relief in sight
A Big Mac, fries and drink has risen to nearly $18 at a handful of locations while hash browns are up to $6.
nypost.com
My local Wendy's can't possibly operate with less people. 3 at a time is the most they ever have since very early 2020.
I took my son to Firehouse....2 meals was $28....i was pissed. So now I do pub subs to go and have chips and drinks at home.
Why McDonald’s is charging $18 for a Big Mac meal — and why there’s no relief in sight
A Big Mac, fries and drink has risen to nearly $18 at a handful of locations while hash browns are up to $6.
The ones off I-90 in upstate NY are even worse. They were charging over $7 for a McChicken and that was like 2 years ago...
Wendy’s is pure chaos man. At least the food is pretty good for a fast food place but you better be in the right mindset to go there
The less fast food people eat, the better. Maybe this will help.
Probably in California.....I read somewhere that fast food employees there can make up to $20/hr.
Hell, the McD's up here in Ohio are posting jobs for $16.50/hr.
Yeah food went up during Covid and has never come back down.
Taking my family of four to Chik fil a is $60. For freaking fast food!
So… we simply don’t eat out much anymore. Luckily, my wife cooks dinner every night (except weekends when I treat her to dinner out/ delivery) so it’s easy to cut out.
Food is out of control.
There was just an article in the Wall Street Journal last week that Americans are now spending a higher percentage of their income on food than they have since 1982.
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What in the hell do you guys order? My family of 4 eats at Chick Fil A for around $35 or so.
I just looked in the app, and after taxes a spicy chicken sandwich combo with medium fries and drink is right at $10 at CFA
Four combo meals plus I’ll add on an extra sandwich or two, usually two ice creams for the kids.
Absolutely minimum $45.
So we simply don’t go and then we talk with our kids about why we dont go. I’ve got the money - I simply refuse to spend that. Also exemplifies spending restraint.
Hope lots of people order at the drive thru and then drive off once they are told the prices.
Yeah, my family drinks water. We never order combos.
*Edit- I just went and built our normal meal and it came out to $32.04.
They must think a lot of people love their grilled chicken caesar salad because that is the only thing they have worth buying
This will be the death of Wendy’s. They will get everyone the first time, as you are out of the car or in the drive thru and will just pay it. The next time you are doing fast food though, you will remember the $14 or whatever burger, and just never go back.
And that ain't all. The Jim n Nick's in Rome wants to charge its customers a "convenience fee"--I think that's what they called it. When I asked what the fee was for, they said it was for using their app. Except I hadn't even used their app, I'd just stopped in for an overpriced pound of barbecue on my way home. They finally agreed to take the fee off my bill, when I started to walk out.
If everybody did that, the savings would be millions. Millions, I tell you.
If everybody did that, the savings would be millions. Millions, I tell you.
yeah covid killed the restaurant industry. Now when we are going to meet people at a restaurant u just never know. We took the mother n law to "brunch" one sat AM about 10 and before covid it would be slammed and u'd have to wait for a crappy 2 top squeezing in by the restrooms. Now u have to wait because they only have to 2 waiters and the kitchen is short staffed and tables are half full.....
I'm one of 5 kids, 4 boys. Still remember that my dad would never let us put cheese on those $0.29 hamburger specials in the 90's at McDonald's. It was $0.39 for a cheeseburger and we had to put cheese on them when we got home if we wanted it. He refused to pay more if cheese was an extra cost...and we damned sure were not getting combo meals or drinks with those orders. Went through a lot of two liters back in those days.
growing up 1 we never ate out but when we did no we werent allowed to order drinks because whatever it was we had that at home.....which we didnt because we never had cokes or other sodas.....milk, maybe OJ, dad always had his grapefruit juice which we hated.....and water.
I recall reading an article on this a few years back, ultimately it will be something experimented with by grocery stores as well. That was the gist of the piece I read anyways. Believe its called "dynamic pricing".
I wouldn’t be surprised if surge doesn’t end up applying more to late night. I don’t go often but wait times at drive throughs after 10:30 are way worse than they used to be. People think lunch but they have plenty of staffing for that.
Costs me more than forty for four combos. No add ons. The only place left that you can eat for four regularly under 40 dollars is cookout. If getting combos.
All this food mentioned is shit, pure shit. Biden’s inflation made them much more expensive, along with everything else, but it’s not worth the pre-bidenomics price, just to die early
Absolutely ridiculous. I went there about a week ago. I paid $17 for two tacos and a drink. I'm still pissed. I won't be going back.
I went to Eddie's Calzones last night downtown. One standard peperoni calzone with a drink was $19. The amount of food I got was equivalent to 2 hot pockets. Then of course there's the tip line. I left $2 because that's just what you're supposed to do these days but wtf.
Just grabbed lunch at Bruxie downtown. A mediocre chicken sandwich with fries and a drink was $19.
