[grimalkin]

Bad policies are making us all poorer.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[dynachrome]

Do they take EBT cards?

[glorgau]

High end luxury restaurants like Wendy’s will thrive in this economy.

[Boogieman]

Wendy’s is smart with their menu choices. For the blue collar crowd, they’ve got the Baconator, while for the white collar crowd, they’ve got the Bourbon Bacon Cheeseburger. Just change a couple ingredients and you’ve got a sandwich tailored to a whole different demographic, and it can’t really cost them much to have a different sauce, different bun, and some crunchy onions or differently sliced pickles on hand.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Just how do they know the income cohort of their customers? Maybe zip code associated with the credit card used for purchases? Cashiers looking at their clothes and cars?

[chuckb87]

Maybe it’s the fact they can’t afford to eat at the usual uppity restaurants they’re accustomed to.

[gracefullyparanoid]

Let’s see how all this plays out. My child is a General Manager running a Wendy’s. They struggle to get workers and the ones they get are drug addled, ex-cons, and ghetto all along with the drama they bring. Going out to the back to smoke weed, drinking on the job, getting into fights with custuomers, an occasional illegal gun or two. He ends up working 70+ hour weeks because these scum don’t show up for work. This is an upper middle class area.

Wendy’s better increase their robots.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is a surprise. Higher income consumers generally are trending away from fast food.

[steel_resolve]

I dunno, when two meals with fries and a drink came out to over $25, that was the time I stopped going to Wendys.

[ConservativeInPA]

Fast food burger joints are dead to me. I recently started to chop my hamburger meat. I’m cycling through different cuts of beef to find the one that I like the most. Eventually, I will play around with blends. The one thing that is certain so far is every cut that I have used has been superior to any fast food joint. Part of this is the quality of the meat and part is the process. The process is the chopping the meat without the meat excreting too much myosin. That makes for tough burgers. Grocery stores rarely grind their own hamburger meat, but even when they do, they typically take two passes through a meat grinder. That’s good for sausage making if you want that “knack”, but not for hamburgers. The key to chopping your own burger meat is quite simply: chopping, not grinding. It’s not a lot of work either, because you don’t want to over chop. Less is better.

So, for the price of one fast food meal you can make superior burgers for two to three people. If you plan ahead and buy the meat on a regular grocery store trip, then it is faster that driving to a fast food restaurant and waiting for your order. Quality, speed, taste.

[napscoordinator]

I went to Wendy’s on Monday for Lunch. The prices were less than McDonald’s and Burger King. I like BK the most. Wendy’s is last but I was with a group who wanted to go there. It was ok.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Agree we’re all poorer.

Anecdotally, we hit the Wendy’s drive through for the first time in years last week.

They’ve done away with the grilled chicken sandwich, so we went with one fried chicken sandwich meal and an extra fried chicken sandwich.

It wasn’t bad, pretty fresh. But cost $18. We won’t be going back anytime soon.

[Lockbox]

Question....... will McDonald’s Bring back the millionaire?

[newzjunkey]

Absolutely. I am not big on fast food but Wendys has a better tasting product for the money.

[catnipman]

absolutely the ONLY fast food we ever buy is Wendy’s family-sized chili ...

[moovova]

“no ‘major resistance’ to prices”

Are they kidding? We haven’t eaten at Wendy’s in probably a year...because of OUR resistance to their prices. Maybe, in their mind, not eating there does not count as resistance to prices.

[Old Yeller]

Wendy’s Fine Dining

[Old Yeller]

I’ll take the Baconator. Hold the mRNA injection.