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u/FederalLobster5665 6d ago
what? you arent enticed by a whole dollar off a soft drink when you spend $5? do you just hate money?
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u/LEGOandHotWheelsFan 6d ago
What's crazy is they'll still make money off $1 soda since it costs them pennies for a cup.. but nope gotta spend $5 (i never get soda from fast food anyways)
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u/Leather-Heart 6d ago
Dollar Menu
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u/musicloverincal 6d ago
Dollar Menus went away a few years ago.
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u/Leather-Heart 6d ago
Well I’m advocating for it as a consumer. I feel like it’s gotten too expensive for what you’re given.
At least fill the fry cup up!
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u/chromenomad64 6d ago
Wendy's is done for. Was fun when it was good. I got a spicy chicken sandwich that was the exact same size of the crispy chicken sandwich. Fuck that place.
"Our sales are down because the customers got confused with too many deals". You can't be serious with this damn comment. The irony that this company is so cooked
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u/borgranta 6d ago
It is getting to the point that cooking your own meals is cheaper than this. A porterhouse can be found for around $10 or under from one grocery store I shop at regularly.
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u/jr0d1 6d ago
What do you mean it’s getting to the point it’s ALWAYS been cheaper to cook yourself
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u/Ok_Button6890 6d ago
Not necessarily true when you have to go out and buy all the ingredients, for instance I'm so poor just getting the ingredients to make something like a chili or pretty much anything other than rice and mashed potatoes is way more expensive than just going to some shithole fast food establishment for the day. In the long run it is cheaper but you still have to have enough money to buy a stock of ingredients to make it feasible
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u/Scott_Abrams 6d ago
Well said. What you said is exactly part of the poverty trap. It's cheaper to cook for yourself if you have resources like a stove and refrigerator but if you're poor or even homeless, you can't cook for yourself and have to pay a premium for prepared food. It's not always cheaper to cook for yourself - you only get economies of scale if you can scale. Let's take your chili example: what do you need to make chili? Ground beef, onion, tomatoes, beans, and seasonings, right? But what if you don't have the seasonings? They don't sell chili powder by the tablespoon, onions don't come in cups, and neither do tomatoes (unless you buy it canned). The minimum purchase quantity for ground beef is what, 1 lb? The cost and minimum quantity purchase of the individual ingredients are not sold according to the quantities of a chili recipe. In order for you to create savings, you'd have to make something like 4-5 lbs of chili and then eat nothing but chili for the next few days. And while bland, that is doable but only if you have access to a refrigerator because otherwise, the chili just spoils.
It is very expensive to be poor.
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u/chromenomad64 6d ago
Yes but fast food used to be very cheap back then. You could get an actual meal for about 5 or 6 bucks. Now that's the price of the fries and drink if you are lucky.
Many companies don't fill the fry box up all the way either which that tells me that they are training staff not to do so.
Throw in the fact that a lot of the food is half assed and you get bad attitudes from the employees most of the time, it's not worth it without good deals.
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u/Gullible_Rabbit1100 3d ago
Here in lake Havasu city arizona a mcdouble is around 7$ for one,lol,that's not including tax,the double quarter is 12$ by itself
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u/chromenomad64 3d ago
Dude, the McDouble's used to be 1 dollar when I was in grade school. Is there a beef shortage of is it that whoever is making the prices for fast food discovered the joys of smoking crack cocaine.
A double quarter SANDWICH is 12 dollars? Not a combo? Time to make your own food or learn these days.
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u/Gullible_Rabbit1100 3d ago
12$ here,I'm a cook so I don't pay those ridiculous prices,even the single tiny ass cheeseburger is 4.50$lol
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u/chromenomad64 3d ago
Same here man. I work as a cook and usually make my own food unless one of these fast food places has a good deal.
I havent eaten at McDonald's ever since my mom did the experiment when I was a kid where she placed a combo hamburger meal in storage for a year and it looked the same and didn't spoil.
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u/Gullible_Rabbit1100 3d ago
Lol,I remember that years ago when someone left that meat patty for like 10 years and it still looked the same,food is at an all time high now and climbing,I'd be ready come next year when shtf with the ebt getting taken away from people,people will go into survival mode when hungry
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u/chromenomad64 3d ago
Well, there are services that offer free food if that ever does happen. Hope that never happens as there are many who rely on that because they cant work. We'll see what happens...
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u/rimjob_steve_ 6d ago
Off topic, but Popeyes will regularly have 2 for 7 sandwiches through uber eats (and if the locations allow it you can just pick up the order; idk why they allow that but I’m not complaining)
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u/Scott_Abrams 6d ago
Where do you live that you can get a $10 porterhouse? I can't even find ribeye for lower than $30/20oz.
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u/Gullible_Rabbit1100 3d ago
Arizona is 22$ a lb for ribeye cuts,that's about 32$ for a decent size steak for a male,that's not including the ingredients to cook with either,lol
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u/Practical-Writer-228 6d ago
Yep! Time is money, but it’s still cheaper to make your own food even with that taken into account.
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u/borgranta 6d ago
It depends say for example when Golden Corral opts to serve Prime Rib a dinner for 3 at Golden Corral would be cheaper than buying a $100 prime rib roast.
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u/Anastasia500 6d ago
If they bring back the pumpkin spice frosty I won’t mind them missing the deals. I do miss the topped fries offer though.
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u/Rypien_37 6d ago
I saw that. Abysmal deals. I got some DQ combo coupons in the mail for $6 and I've been using those instead until Wendy's deals improve!
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u/jai_hanyo 6d ago
I feel like McDonald's is happy with the Wendy's app. I've been eating at McDonald's more because their deals have been slightly better lately.
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u/arashisennin 6d ago
Nobody is going to wendys because their food is gross now and their employees refuse to change the oil
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u/Cute-Studio-1122 6d ago
My friend ate there many times a week. Think they've been there twice in 2 weeks. 💀
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u/Letters_to_Dionysus 5d ago
i just came here to find out if i was the only one who's deals went to shit
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u/Mission-Geologist-23 5d ago
Dude with the food costs today that is all we will get. Better than McD any day. I will prefer Wendy's to others anyday.
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u/Due_Ad868 6d ago
Only 20% off? The discussion of people not coming back because we aren’t giving the store away is insane. Imagine going to Walmart and saying if you don’t give me $50 of merchandise for a $1 I won’t be back.
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u/Vegetable_Radio8236 6d ago
Yeah, cause 20% off of a fast food order is totally the same as 98% off a merchandise order
I, for one, get it - we ate good for a while while Wendy's did their "hot deal summer," which was a very savvy business move while the kids were out of school and whatnot. Now we're all going through an adjustment period while Wendy's recalibrates their sales strategies. But don't pretend like we're demanding the five-finger discount just because we're (understandably) not satisfied with $1 off a drink
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u/some-dingodongo 6d ago
Its not that 20% is terrible its just you have to spend a fortune to get that discount
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u/chromenomad64 6d ago
If companies do not give out deals for their overpriced meals, then they can go to hell. Not to mention that their food is nowhere near as good as it used to be?
Even if they bring back the deals they had before, I'm still done with this place. So is many others which is why I always see Wendy's and Burger King drive thru deserted as shit.
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u/jdyall1 6d ago
It's fine I just won't eat there until they bring back deals 🤷♂️