Posted on 07/08/2016 6:54:21 PM PDT by Utilizer
Customers who have eaten at Wendy's restaurant and used a debit or credit card to pay for their food are being encouraged to check their statements and read more information on a cyber breach found at some franchise-owned restaurants.
Alabama restaurants include five in Huntsville; two in Madison, and one each in Cullman, Decatur, Evergreen, Greenville, Guntersville, Jasper, Mobile, Rainsville, Scottsboro and Selma. Click for locations near you.
Wendy's Company first reported unusual payment card activity in February 2016, and believes the activity may have occurred as early as October 2015. Then, on June 9, 2016, company officials reported that an additional malware variant had been identified and disabled.
All of the impacted locations are located in the United States.
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I’ll take cash every time.
Easy way to avoid this, just use cash—remember that? Green money, easier, faster, no paper trail and no worries about credit rating should you miss that payment or even interest on that credit balance. Don’t play by their rules.
“Never like the way their food tastes.”
The Baconator is so good
I liked their chili until I found out they use old hamburger patties for the meat.
There’s a lot to be said in a good way just using cash American for everyday stuff like this.
I LOVE the double cheeseburger! Wendy’s is my favorite burger joint.
It would be better if they provided either a list or a map.
I used to love Wendy’s. But now they have such small portions at such high prices, and the quality has dropped off so much. I must not be the only one. The local Wendy’s looks deserted compared to the other fast food places around. And a few years back they used to be the most busy.
I haven’t worked for Wendy’s since 1982 but the “old” hamburger patties they use for chili are patties that sat on the grill one minute too long, so instead of throwing it out they chop it up and make chili out of it (same day, and sell it within a day or two). Pretty good, actually.
It’s not like they age it for a week or two in the fridge.
nearly 4 months for them to catch this? really?
I know wendy’s uses more than 1 POS vendor. I kinda wonder which one was affected.
Their Frostys are excellent on a hot day too.
Don't you think you're being pretty hard on those vendors? ;)
Indeed. I miss their salad bars.
I think it’s absurd that fast food has credit now.
In my brief stint last year as hardware cashier, it surprised me how many people pay via credit for a tiny 30-c plastic tie. And OTOH how many didn’t know there was no minimum for credit payment at our store.
What they should have is an area where you can make and bake your own pizzas!
I never carry cash. That way when I tell the bums that I have no money, I don’t have to lie.
In regular home cooking, old/lesser food is often used in mish-mash type dishes. Burger is like that for chili and spaghetti. Efficient usage. Not as noticible in casserole type dishes that the ingredients are low quality, but straight-up food, definitely notice.
You just reminded me of my favorite job @ Wendy’s when I worked there as a kid in the late 70s, saving money so I could go to Germany.
It is true that the unsold burger patties not good enough to make a decent burger for a customer are kept @ the corner of the grill and towards the end of the day, the new trainee will be taught how to make a big batch of chili after said trainee lasted a week and proved himself at least useful enough in keeping up with correctly making enough fries during rush but not so many they can’t be sold later. (Excess fries are waste and must go out with the trash).
Ideally, the store should be out of chili but it will always be there.
The new grill guy will take that shift’s unsold fully cooked patties and chop them up to bite size, then stir them in to a fresh cauldron of sweet chili mix and beans and it’s virtually foolproof, as it should be, these are teenagers new to work.
I personally took a great deal of pride in making a good batch of chili, and there’s no way anything on the floor is ever going into it.
Our crew took pride in running a clean restaurant, the worst we ever got was flinging those flat pickle slices, they stick to flat surfaces and foreheads if they land just right:)
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