Yeah I’m with you here except my inner cynic is gnawing away at me. I get the impression that the sign in the far corner reads…
[sub]oh btw because of a tomato shortage you must ask for them. Either way you’re still charged the same price[/sub]
Anyway, there are plenty of other reasons to hate Wendys.
It’s not that the tomatoes they get are from Florida, it is the fact that the hurricanes destruction caused a shortage overall. They may very well have been getting their tomatoes from California, but without the Florida tomatoes it hikes the price of all tomaotes.
BTW, I was in a local mexican restaurant here in Los Angeles and they had a similar sign WRT tomatoes.
$4.59 to hold you beef? Jeez, it’s $20 in town…
:rolleyes:
You and Cowgirl Jules really don’t understand the concept of supply and demand, do you? Just because CA has tomatoes doesn’t mean the supply available to Wendy’s across the country haven’t taken a huge hit, thus increasing the cost of tomatoes - across the board. Same reason a bottle of vanilla now costs over $15 - the vanilla crop took a massive hit this year as well.
Much got in his :rolleyes: before I could. I’d also like to point out that some restaurants in my area had temporary price increases for beef dishes when there was a jump in the price of beef. Nothing new here.
I have zero issues with Wendy’s stance, as long as it is clearly mentioned when you order the sandwiches, so their customers don’t miss out on a desired part of their meal that they are paying for.
I think too much fast food is making the OP grumpy.
World Eater, the signs are huge, and on every register, and completely impossible to miss. Wendys is groveling and the signs carry a hint of shame. I peed in several on my way from NC to VA, and the signs were consistent.
Per the fixin’ bars, Wendys used to have them, but the food went bad too quickly to make keeping it freshly stocked cost-effective.
Fair enough. You get so jaded to these big fast food companies that you assume anything they do is motivated by evil. This doesn’t seem to be the case.
Aw. You could assume that they’re trying to shame you into not consuming their expensive tomatoes. That’s sort of evil.
What they should do is pick up all the tomato slices that are invariably thrown away in the parking lot and rinse/reuse.
[totally irrelevant tangent]
I was eating at an Italian joint in Dallas for lunch one day. I had pushed a few of the generous supply of capers from my Chicken Picatta to the side of the plate. The owner wandered by greeting everyone. When he noticed the pile of capers, he put his hand on my shoulder pointed at the pile and said “eat those, they’re expensive.”
Well I hope you didn’t just fling open the front door and let fly. That would piss them off even more than a tomato rant.
Those fuckers gave me tomatoes today, and I didn’t ask for them. At least stick to the damn policy if you’re going through the effort of making the signs. I was happy after reading the sign that I would not have to reveal my anti-tomato stance and ask for no tomatoes.
Ha! I hope you said, “Well I paid for these, asshole.”
NutMagnet, being female, I had to squat. 
Just thought I’d report that I went to Wendy’s today and ordered a Wild Mountain Chicken combo and got a tomato on it without asking for it.
I went to Burger King one time and asked for onion rings. When I got to the bottom of the container, you know what I found? A French Fry!
Bastards!
You just know they do this all the time. One fry here, two fries there; who’s going to notice, right? And on an individual basis, maybe it’s not so important. But in aggregate, I have calculated that B.K. has, in displacing onion rings with fries, bilked the American market alone of thousands of tons of onion rings annually (don’t ask; this is higher order math here, involving space-packing of toroidal solids, friction, relative density, and the grease-absorbing capacity of potato starch vs. breadding).
Tomatoes? Hah! You haven’t seen the tip of the iceberg lettuce, my friends. Tubers are being substituted for onions in such volumes as to be a billion-dollar fraud over the span of the franchise. Have It Your Way indeed. Have Our Way With You is more like it.
Bob, just be thankful they’re not charging you extra for that tomato which you still get added for no extra cost even though they have to pay more for them now. They could, by rights, charge extra for them.
I don’t see the rant here. It’s just common sense. Wendy’s should be ranting about customers such as yourself who don’t understand the costs of doing business and staying competitive.
There are similiar signs for all produce in my local Stater Bros.
They could have raised the prices to reflect the increased cost. This sounds far preferable to me. Stupid complaint.
True, but then tomato lovers would bogart all the tomatoes, children would have to go without, they would cry, Arlen Specter would seek to have a congressional investigation launched to determine the true source of the tomato shortage, which would lead to the ‘Magic Tomato’ theory, and most of us would think the commission findings were bullshit.