Odd. Last time I went to Wendy’s, they forgot my straw as well. I have to say I love the food though, and the fries taste like potato and not – indescribable like McDonald’s fries do.
Hmmm, I have really good luck with Wendys.
Mmmm…jr bacon cheeseburger, hold the mayo, hold the pickles. YUM.
sigh I think I’m drawn to these fast food rants…it’s my calling or something.
FWIW, while instant coffee is the way we go with decaf (so few are ordered, if they did fresh brewed it would just taste like crap anyways because it would sit for so long…), I always put the little coffee bag in the hot water myself. At least then it’s in the process of becoming coffee by the time you get it.
I hate mayonaise. Even before I worked there it repulsed me, but now that I have to put it on all those damned sandwiches, the sight of it makes me sick.
When I bag, either I forget straws, or I put way too many…it’s a curse, I tell you…
And yeah. I’d drop a letter to the corporation, or call the store. You’ll probably score some coupons out of it if nithing else
The nugget quality at my local Wendy’s restaurants has dropped significantly. They used to be the best nuggets in the free world (until I tried Chik-Fil-A), but for the past year or so, the chicken in them just tastes shitty. This is not my imagination. I’ve been eating Wendy’s nuggets since they first came out in the mid-80s and I have a finely honed taste for them.
My other beef with my Wendy’s is that lately they’ve taken to the habit of handing the bag out the window before you even pull up. I’m convinced that this isn’t about speedy service at all, but rather ties in with Dooku’s ketchup conspiracy theory. See, they’re waving the bag in your face before you have a chance to react, so if you want ketchup you have two choices: refuse to take the bag and make the guy pull it back in and put ketchup in it, or take the bag and accept what meager few ketchup packets they pour into your hand, two of which will fall on the ground and won’t be replaced.
Oh, Dooku, I’m with you on the ketchup thing. At the Wendy’s near my old job, you’d ask for ketchup and they’d give you two. Then you’d ask for more and they’d ask for how many. I would always come up with some arbitrary number, like 11 and watch them count the stupid things out.
Look, I just want LOTS of ketchup, ok? Just throw in a big old handful! I got to the point where I just kept a bottle of ketchup in the fridge at work and quit asking the dinks at Wendy’s for any. No idea why this is such a problem–it truly is like excess ketchup packets were deducted from their pay.
I get special orders alot. From my experience, Wendy’s is absolutely the fastest and most accurate (excluding this foreign lady employee at a local one who has no frickin’ idea what anybody’s saying or what they want), and is the only place to get special orders. I want a sandwich plain, they put the chicken on the bun, wrap it, put it in the bag, it takes only that long. I can almost picture the confused McDonald’s employees who must be taking the toppings off a “completed” sandwich to make my plain one, or having to cook a new one since they already made a bunch of them and they’re sitting under the heat lamps getting stale.
As far as the ketchup conspiracy, McD’s is the only place I’ve seen hanging the bag out the window. I just took it, then asked politely for ketchup and salt and honey dip for my nuggets, they handed it to me and I tossed it into the bag. No problem there.
If you want competence, you’d eat at a TRULY ritzy and smaltzy restaurant, like Denny’s.
Hey anal retentive,
Maybe if you would not eat your shit shile driving down the road, you would not have spilled food and drink all over yourself.
Maybe if you would look at your order before you leave the drive through, you would have seen your precious stirrer and paper napkin was not in your bag. You could have also seen that Sanka and gave that shit back (I would have).
DE-Caffinated coffee? This proves that maybe yes, you are anal. Why would anybody drink DECAFFINATED coffee? What’s the point?
A certain ivylass, too…I had a bit of scare this morning, thinking what the hell did I do? I haven’t been to GD in forever…
And we hear from the peanut gallery.
Anyway, my beef is you are drinking both soda and coffee. I have to assume this was around lunch time for you to be eating this stuff but still … soda and coffee???
And Rhum Runner, that was so very funny.
“I don’t want to wake up, I just want to pee all day.”
I live in an alternate universe. This settles it.
guess it depends on your local Wendys.
Its only 2 blocks from our house, so we go there a lot.
We’ve never gotten a bad order; in fact, when i ask for extra margarine for the baked potato, they give it to me.
For those needing Wendy’s catsup, the butter flippy thingie in my fridge is FULL of their little packets of tomato based love.
When I was in the process of painting and moving in, Wendy’s seemed to be the meal of choice (it’s across the street). They gave us SO many packets of catsup, I will never need to buy a bottle of Heinz again.
I like them for a late night nosh. Their Frosties are nasty (used to be decent) but their fries now surpass the uber-gross Mickey D’s abuse of taters.
And I do like their Caesar salad.
>soda and coffee???<
A friend of mine acquired a six pack of Ernest Borgnine’s Coffee soda. (I couldn’t make up something that good.) Five of them went down the drain. You would think Ernie’s face would have been warning enough.
Northern OHio, checking in. For my fast-food buck, whatever it’s worth, Wendy’s still give the best overall correct service of the big 3-4 or so. YMMV. We can all agree that the general level of the workers at fast-food places has gone down, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. The facts of life dictate it.
Yong Lee Fampee I nicely posted to a thread over in GQ which you screwed up. I thought you might make it on the Boards… I retract my thought.
YOU STUPID FUCKER! (Hey, this is the pit, right?)
It’s not about trashing other posters here. You can trash Wendy’s, fast food restaurants, service, whatever you like, but don’t plan your future posting hopes on trashing a poster just because they ranted about some mundane thing in their daily life. We/they do it all the time. You can too.
But you don’t seem to have a grasp on the fine points of posting here just yet. Perhaps lurking just a bit longer. Offered in the spirit of sincerity.
Hey Vinnie, while I do sympathize for sorry ass experience at Wendy’s, I don’t really think that it compares to mine. To use an old children’s joke… what is worse than finding a Life-Saver in your hamburger? Yep, you guessed it…
Where’s the beef?!?
37 posts and no one said that yet? Sheesh…
gus28, what IS worse?
If I’m getting it to go, I’d just as soon use ketchup from the ketchup bottle at home. Those little bags always squirt everywhere.