I don't need Wendy's nearly as bad as they need me !

@Endoftime-ej7sr

3 ай бұрын

Best response ever. If everyone would stop eating at all these restaurants for 30 days, they would all drop their prices.

@lokokrz.gaming

3 ай бұрын

​@@Endoftime-ej7sr"big boy gets whst big boy wants. Me hungry!" This how alot of americans think. They wont ever stop eating out here in the states

@s.r6331

3 ай бұрын

I hope this happens ​@@Endoftime-ej7sr

@TurningoffyourGaslights

3 ай бұрын

Exactly. Well said.

Just boycott Wendy’s and don’t ever buy from them again!! It’s that easy

@fuzzytb

3 ай бұрын

The food is gross. I avoid them already.

@MmmmJuicy

3 ай бұрын

I'm not going to buy from any company that price gouges via "surge pricing". Bad enough to get scammed every time you buy groceries due to inflated prices in the name of greed. I've cut out a lot of products from my life since 2020 thanks to these idiots being greedy.

@c88485

3 ай бұрын

Done.

@Jimmy59479

3 ай бұрын

😂 in my town Wendys is already slow compared to the other fast food places. I see this as being the final nail in their coffin

@AvidiaNirvana

3 ай бұрын

Yep

Nice knowing you Wendy’s! Call it what ever you want it’s price gouging! I have so many other choices.

@plowe6751

3 ай бұрын

It's not gouging if other choices are available.

@dharshdanube6911

3 ай бұрын

@@plowe6751How is this move by wendy’s not price gouging?

@lpquagmire3621

3 ай бұрын

It sounds like a George Carlin routine: "There's no ceiling to what we'll charge customers but it's not "price gouging," it's "competitive pricing."" LOL!!!

@StickFiguresMaster

3 ай бұрын

With everything in stores now costing a little over the $1 price, even for just a bottle of water, back then you could get a cup of water for free, at your kitchen sink, the garden hose, other friends houses, at stores though, they hire workers who work for money in order to not make the universe seem to be dead on reliability, dependencies, peoples dreams to still not be taken out for Ai to get lower paying jobs is the futures investment, a lot of companies realize nowadays that optimizing scripts on machines can help to loosen and control the machines better, taking away their sometimes long times seeming to at times getting confused when making something with ease technology, as its upgrading after technology is updated practices. We know (we all do) that with Ai now playing its role within our universe now that this can be expected to get much bigger, loosening up jobs with technology that’d newly perfected to give work places better control which may also help them upgrade jt one day to make their stores 1 day now another work station mankind obsolete for is whats among us. If more trees and coal are mined but by technology, mankind would be cutting down 1 tree with their hands while a robot would cut down 5+ in less time, so we nave a future ahead of is thats thickening, becoming wider, with more money being printed by technology, we can expect there to be more minimum wage increases to work places that used to employee a kid for part time jobs being a sweeper for 1$ an hour in the mid 1900’s “Inflation” describes my entire comment by itself, look it up by both the images, videos, you’ll know what it means, to keep going, means we’ll keep evolving, migrating, shifting and changing!

@NiceterCoolster

Ай бұрын

Exactly! I thought this was illegal.

Yeah I won’t be eating at any restaurants that choose to do business this way. This is ridiculous.

@rockyjeterwebb1718

3 ай бұрын

I agree. It's just another way for a restaurant to take advantage of customers. I see nothing good and or positive coming from this experiment or test or whatever you want to call it.

@ClarenceSlade

3 ай бұрын

Oh and don't forget the tip!! 🤣

@AvidiaNirvana

Ай бұрын

DQ started to do this near me.

Problem: Surge Pricing Solution: Boycott 🤔

@medusagorgon8432

3 ай бұрын

That's exactly what I've been saying! Boycott both grocery stores and fast food.

@AvidiaNirvana

3 ай бұрын

So true, no more surges for them. They can sit there and eat their own food till they run out of money!

This just seems like a gimmick to raise their prices on a permanent basis. If enough people patron Wendy's during the slow periods (to save money), then wouldn't this create a high traffic, busy period that would still enforce the increase prices?

@kamX-rz4uy

3 ай бұрын

From a standpoint of moving some customers away from busy periods to slow periods, that makes good business sense. Even out the day and you don't have to have as many staff on hand to satisfy specific times, improves speed of service in those busy periods, and less employee stress. That said, most people eat when they can and for most people that's around 11-1 and 5-6 pm. If they want to raise prices at lunch, office workers will go elsewhere. At dinner time families will go elsewhere.

@Westside49er

3 ай бұрын

Nailed it

@bobwoods1302

3 ай бұрын

This will not save you a penny.

@GreyCat-qd6yi

3 ай бұрын

@@kamX-rz4uyyour a 14 year old playing lawyer

@naejin

3 ай бұрын

if this helps regulate or average out their peaks & valleys of consumer demand during the day, doesn't this make staffing need to accommodate for this change also? You may need more regular staff to cater to this at all times or more times of the day, no? EDIT: Oh wait, AI automation (AKA robots) will take over such human labor will be less needed.

Next they'll raise the price based on what kind of car you drive. "Okay kids, pile into the old Dodge so we can afford Wendy's."

@naejin

3 ай бұрын

your comment doesn't even make any sense to what surge pricing is about.

@JulioLopez-xz5kx

3 ай бұрын

​@@naejinYou must be fun at parties.

@c88485

3 ай бұрын

You are completely correct. They just said they plan on using AI to calculate how they can manipulate and get more money out of us. How they can entice us more. Notice they never say they are using AI to figure out how they can give a better value to us while still making a good return for themselves. At least that's how this EX-Wendy's customer feels.

This just shows how stupid these CEOs are. To spend $20 million on digital menu boards that you don’t need instead of giving your employees a bonus…. That shows they have no priorities.

@joewolfmedia

3 ай бұрын

It's a fast food restaurant. They don't need bonuses.

@Yeah-its-me

3 ай бұрын

Dividends. Profits. Thats their priority.

Profit over people

Don't eat at these places!!!!!!!

@dillonwood3096

3 ай бұрын

I been to Wendy’s today and I can see how higher the prices are just like flights concert tickets housing and jerseys too we must need to see the lowest prices

I am not waiting for them to implement this. Starting today, I am done.

@gottahaveawawa7494

3 ай бұрын

Drove passed a Wendy’s hungry, and I had no problem. Boycott Wendy’s.

Would surge pricing help me get a CORRECT order for once? Would surge pricing provide actual mobile service, instead of having customers wait half an hour in their car, and 10 minutes at a register hoping they could receive their order? I swear, there’s hardly anyone working there. They pay like one or two people to do everything. I have never had to wait on another customer at any Wendy’s this century, and yet it still takes forever and the orders wrong. Just shut down the dining area and the app, and be drive thru only. Save your costs there.

So basically, everyone who works a 9 to 5 is being punished as a thank you for being a customer. My wendys is 2.2 miles from me and while I like my baconator I'm not always in the mood for that drive. It will be even less next year it seems.

they just set around fingering out ways to rip you off

@MmmmJuicy

3 ай бұрын

That's capitalism.

Anyone who raises prices based on variables like how busy the time of day is, is simply gouging. Thats all it is. They think you're that desperate you'll pay whatever the price is. This isn't a stock market. It's like the delivery services now wanting you to pay a premium to make it "worth it" for the driver to pick it up. If they don't expect a big tip they can refuse to make the delivery and wait for an order to come in more enticing. Not going to turn my meal into an eBay auction

This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard.

@naejin

3 ай бұрын

Although I don't like the idea of adding more stress to lunch breaks, it's not that unheard of to be considered the stupidest idea ever. You ever heard of market price for things like Lobster or other seafood? That's capitalism for you in a nutshell.

Hopefully this will be the downfall of fast food and we'll all start eating at small businesses again.

@AC_4643

3 ай бұрын

...to be fair most local businesses tend to be slower,more expensive, and less consistent which is why we tend to go to fast food... we'd probs just eat out less (also ik someone will read this and be like "well not this one place i go to they're not like that" but im just generalizing. i for example get Chinese food for its low cost and quick service, but not all foods like burgers can be made as fast without the equipment these restaurant chains have specifically the thrive through focused one and not dine in focused ones.)

Their burgers aren't even big anymore.

Boycott Wendy’s

@retardedpineapple9461

2 ай бұрын

why?

Stupid. Why would I pay more money for the same raggedy double stack just because of the number of people in line?? So I have to wait longer AND pay more? Did the idiots who came up with this know that ride share customers keep Uber AND Lyft open at the same time? If Uber is $50 and Lyft is $30..... ijs. Brand loyalty went out the window when the pandemic hit. Who ARE these people??

@hanbury22

2 ай бұрын

That’s exactly their plan! To surge price the food during peak hours. Just don’t make a stop at fast food restaurants!

@cocean158

2 ай бұрын

@@hanbury22 I just revisited this and realized, I haven't been to a Wendy's since they announced this idiotic plan.

black ball wendys

@49erDiner

3 ай бұрын

straight up

Who came up with this idea???? If a wait longer in line i have to pay more????

This is the future demise of “fast” food. Wendy’s is going to implode if they do this.

You already pay 15-16 dollars for a combo meal how high will it go this is just pure insanity what's going on in our country especially the last three years we won't have any money left .

@sounds0fmeows

3 ай бұрын

I'm just glad that I was born in the last barely liveable generation this world will see😢

@hanbury22

2 ай бұрын

Stop eating out! It’s that simple. Fast food restaurants are placing more value on how much they can charge customers

I find it amusing that wendys executives don't even recall their own core values. Namely, "fair pricing". Pretty sure their surge pricing plan goes against fair pricing. They might consider changing their values before implementing this plan.

If surge pricing means that their employees will also get surge wages, then I would support it, but that’s obviously not gonna happen.

@MmmmJuicy

3 ай бұрын

Of course not. Those extra profits will go to shareholders and such.

@catherinerenee2668

3 ай бұрын

The Wendy's close to me has the absolute most horrible customer service I stopped going solely based on that. Part of any job facing the public is to be at least pleasant. Surge pricing cements my decision to NEVER go back.

@jman12123

3 ай бұрын

Guarantee that the owner would only give them a tiny fraction of the profit increase if even that. So even a theoretical wage surge would be abused to the owner's advantage

Does this mean there will be dynamic wage increases for its workers based on workload? Ya I didn’t think so

I see three things coming out from this. Taking advantage of customers more, more angry customers, and Wendy's loosing business. I see nothing good and or positive coming out this experiment or test or whatever you want to call it.

@lokokrz.gaming

3 ай бұрын

Wendys closing locations just like macys soon 😂😂

why don't they just start bringing dice to your table at restaurants, too when they bring menus . . . .

@Jaxmusicgal23

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, that seems a lot more reasonable than what they’re trying to implement. And the future AI they are implementing to decide what your price will be later

Even without dynamic pricing, wendys burgers is like +$10 by itself… no thanks! In N out gets my business!

No dynamic pricing is not helping anyone but their bottom line. This needs to be illegal.

@naejin

3 ай бұрын

i don't know whether it should be illegal, as it's just supply/demand economics. basis of capitalism. if made illegal, this could send a ripple effect and make many other forms of supply/demand economics illegal as well.

@stretcherbearer1350

3 ай бұрын

Gives "dynamic tension' a new meaning.😄

Dynamic pricing means I will not consider the place as an option. It doesn't motivate, it demotivates.

@naejin

3 ай бұрын

As long as it's just Wendy's restaurants, some potential customers will go someplace else to eat. Other fast food restaurants may benefit from Wendy's losses. However, what would happen if all fast food restaurant industries agreed to collude to all do it? Then Wendy's would less likely suffer in comparison to other fast food restaurants.

Time to stop going to all fast food places. The prices are high, the drive through is long and takes too much time, orders are often wrong with either missing or added items, got to order using a computer rather than a person when inside, the menu boards are getting too complex, etc. The funny thing is you can make stuff at home easily that tastes just as good. Don’t get me wrong, I like fast food and it’s great on the go or after a bad day, but it’s been becoming a hassle for a while now.

Not eating Wendy’s is an option

@naejin

3 ай бұрын

Yup, and if all fast food restaurants don't follow in Wendy's footsteps, Wendy's will likely have less demand for their food in general, and other fast food restaurants will likely pick up some extra business. Beware if all the fast food restaurants collude to do it in unison then. If this happens, Wendy's will likely not lose much business compared to other restaurants.

@hanbury22

2 ай бұрын

I never eat at Wendy’s

Wendy's just opened a new store here in sweetwater Tennessee, I've ate there twice since opening,but now that you've decided to profiteer on customers I won't eat there anymore,I will not be robbed by you thieving profiteers,all about supporting the stick price,I'm serious,no more robbery of citizens

America needs to break its fast food addiction ,donuts in the morning Wendys etc at lunch equals poor health and now this insult these corporations just downright don't respect their customers.Boycott.

Stop eating at Wendy's give it about 2-3 months and prices will come down.

Then they better make excellent health insurance and dental and vision for its employees!!

ADIOS MAN

Pure Greed. We need to vote with our money.

Whoever thought of this should be fired. Sorry, I won't be going to Wendy's.

@naejin

3 ай бұрын

Whoever thought to be the sole fast food restaurant to go with this surge pricing should be fired for not colluding with other fast food restaurants to all go in on this plan. If they all went in together, then consumers would not have good alternatives, other than to pack their own lunches. But some parents don't have time with their 2-4 jobs, and will be stuck paying higher prices.

Boycott corporate greed! Remember, you don't need to eat fast food!

Where is this world going??

"It's what Dave Thomas would have wanted."

@LilAbortedJesus

3 ай бұрын

Dave Thomas is rolling in his grave.

Oh no this CEO must go, i am already paying 13$ for a baconator combo…

It's kind of hard to wrap your head around. Take retail for example, there is something called a price adjustment if the item goes on sale within a specific period of time. Wendys is trying to get customers to pay more for the same product at certain times of day. There is no way that is going to be logical from a consumer standpoint.

Well eating out was fun while it lasted. As for me it's been months since I've gone to any restaurant and dine-in. Now there's no reason to what with how absurd they're charging us customers. For the ssme price as a large Big'Mac combo meal, I can buy a small bag of frozen burger patties. Some buns,cheese and eat far better then going to the drive-thru. It's for the best anyway,since they're charging us a lot for cheap quality food.

I bet you money, the prices will never “surge” down if you’re the only customer in the store!

People need to make sure they dont shop at wendys anymore . Because if they let wendys get away with it, they will show every other fast food place they can get away with it

This is just another test to see if enough people will fork over extra money and jump through hoops willingly in exchange for a subpar product or service. The government/corporate model of the future is slowly chipping away at quality of life. They want everything to be price gouged and preferably subscription based so you pay forever

@Jaxmusicgal23

3 ай бұрын

And prices based on whatever their app AI can figure out about you on your phone…. So you may pay two dollars for something while somebody even if they have a larger family, but a higher income pays three times as much. I bet it also taken a new account all kinds of other things that are huge violations of civil discrimination laws…. The reason why we go somewhere because we know we’re gonna pay when we get there and it’s reasonable and it doesn’t change . If the price is going to change like the stock market, based on surges, and then my personal spending habits/income/children …. All information you got from me in a way that I don’t think should be gotten because it’s my private info on my phone…. Just because I download your app or go through your drive-through, does that mean you have the right to gather any information about me or my family or my spending habits. That is the AI they’re wanting to implement and it is creepy . If we want this to stop, we have to boycott this now heavily just like Bud Light and show them. We are done dealing with this crap. People are people, and everyone is valuable, and everyone should get to pay the same price and you set your prices for all . If I want to Harris Teeter or very expensive grocery grocery store prices at Walmart, I would go to the expensive grocery store. I go to Walmart because I know what the prices are going to be and it’s going to be reasonable …. If I get there and you charge me more it’s no difference if I go to the mom-and-pop grocery store guess where I’m going the mom and Pop grocery store because they’ll have better products there for the higher price. If these companies think that this AI individual pricing is going to work for them it’s actually going to shoot them in the foot.

Wonder how much longer till supermarkets start doing this?

Price gouging

You're about to get a dynamic lesson in how broke people actually are🤣

@theredqueen4986

3 ай бұрын

🤣😂

I love Ronny Cheing's take on surge pricing on the daily show. Buy when not peak times and resell in the parking lot during surge pricing 😂

Amerians can wrap their heads around 'dynamic pricing' when there is a limited, finite number that can be sold, such as an airline seat or a concert. There are only so many seats on a plane, at a concert, etc.. We hate it, but the laws of physics help us understand the concept. Fast food places are known to serve until they close, not until they run out of food. So, introducing dynamic pricing in this category comes across as only one way - a cash grab. Even if they retract this cruel & ridiculous business plan, I can't see Wendy's coming back from this tbh. Not anytime soon, at least.

Why not take that 20 million dollars and pay your workers better.

I no longer go to McDonald's because of their crazy prices, so I'll certainly axe Wendy's off my list, too.

Wendy's always the last choice among other fast food establishments in my area , food was always sub par

@s.r6331

3 ай бұрын

They'd actually #2 behind McDonald's

RIP FAST FOOD

Congratulations wendys. You have destroyed the brand entirely today. Literally will never go to another wendys in this lifetime.😢

Let me fix the title for you .... "Wendy's considers price gouging their customers"

If this goes into effect, trust me, my family and I will never eat at a Wendy's again.

I have never eaten at Wendy's anyway. After parents saw that I seem to have a fatty liver, they suddenly all kinds of restrictions on what food is served in my home that is more extreme that what any doctor prescribed. If I try to find a super healthy alternative, my family will say that it costs too much. If I try to eat outside at a college event, my mother will act uncomfortable. I can be admonished just because I ate something that they do not feel comfortable with. I once took home some bagels from a college event and my mother threw them unexpectedly in the garbage.

4 piece nuggets cost 3 bucks for processed chicken flavor with bread crumbs. I ain't paying for that

My local Wendys is so bad I haven't been there in 6 years. This is just one more reason to never return.

Time to start putting in the willy wonka style golden ticket for a free combo win.

Perfect lesson for my high school marketing class

I’m finished off Wendy’s

SO WENDY'S PLANS ON INCLUDING THEIR WORKERS ON SURGE PRICING OF COURSE, they wouldn't just make more money without including the workers performing the same task, right?

Excessive dividends and CEO pay cause inflation.

@tylere.8436

3 ай бұрын

Inflation is caused by massive government spending and energy prices.

I’m sure that dynamic pricing for labor is going to Motivate them to cut that mess out…

I agree with the reverse. Regular price typically , with lower prices for slow times... I do love that pretzel bun...

@ClarenceSlade

3 ай бұрын

I doubt you will see lower prices during slow periods, that will probably be the regular pricing with premium pricing added during peak periods. Easier to adjust should the time frames change as people try to avoid the premium time pricing.

It’s about time the customers start practicing dynamic “not going to Wendy’s” where we just dont go to Wendy’s at any times of the day.

That will probably be their downfall

I never thought 🤔 I would see Wendy's close before 😂burger king.

Goodbye to WENDY 😢😢😢

Bye, Felicia! Congratulations on losing this family of customers Wendy's. We don't appreciate PRICE GOUGING.

How about investing 20 million for benefits first employees or better food.

$800 for Taylor tickets. Dynamic pricing is terrible😂 girl. $800 for a ticket is flat robbery. Shouldn't be more than 250$ max.

When I drive in the middle of the night it's less congested. Why?

They already had to release a statement to help with damage control saying they will not increase prices during peak hours (lies).

Wendy's isn't even good anymore so WTH are they even thinking?!

Wendys is about to shoot themselves in the foot

Any restaurant that pulls that crap will lose me as a customer.

Welcome to Wendy's where our prices blow around?

Game theory in play here. If Wendy's is the only one that does it, it will likely fail & hurt Wendy's sales, as they will likely lose some customers to other fast food restaurants. But other fast food restaurants may pick up some of the lost business from Wendys. If all fast food restaurants collude to all do it in unison, then there will less likely that this surge pricing will hurt Wendy's, and an increase chance that it will be successful for fast food industry to increase revenue for all.

Wendy: We want to play with your money We want to play with your heart We want to play with your soul We want you to come!

Can't wait until they go all in on an 'value meal loot box'. Imagine needing to buy your extra value meal 10 times before you actually get what you want.

I'm actually not going to ANY fast food places. I slowly started stopping two years ago , and now I do not go at all. And guess what?? I do not miss it at all.

Stop going to Wendys yall. Lets make these fast food chains feel the hole in their pockets like we do.

A report came out showing their food (Wendy’s) has high amounts of microplastics in it. Don’t believe me look it up yourself.

and the best part is is that the employees still get paid $10 an hour

I will NEVER be ok with dynamic pricing for fast food. If consumers don’t revolt, then this will be a trend that will continue at other restaurants. The moment dynamic pricing goes into effect at Wendy’s will be the LAST time I buy anything from them.

I received news that they backed out of the decision The Outrage from Customers definitely worked out for the best

with digital menu boards, price changes can be implemented in the fraction of a second, and if the difference in pricing is only going to be a couple of cents, who's gonna notice or complain??

These fast food chains are completely out of touch with reality

I will insure I will never go to a fast food that doesn’t charge all customers the same price. There are many competitors. Wendy’s has been deleted from my options.

That's how you treat your customers? .......Good luck keeping them. No more Wendy's!

Boycott all places that do this. This is outrageous.

I do not want to have to time my meals just right to get a certain price. I have a budget and I want to know what prices to expect 24/7. This just makes me even less likely to eat at a Wendy’s.