Wendy's is instituting a "Surge pricing"

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Anonymous wrote:McDonalds has moved to a model where you really need to use their app. You’re paying a premium if you don’t use it. With the app, their employees aren’t entering your order or handling payment, while the customer earns rewards and has access to lots of different deals. People who aren’t using the app are financing freebies for the app users.

The last time I was at a McDonalds you couldn't even order with a person at the register. You placed your order on a touch screen and paid right there. No employee involved.

To McDonald's credit, at least they aren't asking you for a tip!

Yet.

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Anonymous wrote:I predict this will be like when AMC tried to charge premium prices for "good" seats in the cinema. It won't get any traction and Wendy's will abandon it.

(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amc-seating-pricing-plan-abandoned/#:~:text=The%20company%20has%20abandoned%20its,initiative%20pilot%20at%20three%20theaters.)

There's no shortage of competition for consumers who want fast food. I can't think of a single Wendy's menu item, save for a Frosty, that someone might pay a premium for. And even then if someone has a sweet tooth they'll just get a shake from McDonald's or BK or something.

I have a vegetarian who likes their baked potatoes when we get fast food

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Wendy's refuted the "surge" reporting.

https://apnews.com/article/wendys-burger-pricing-ef75fa9214beddbd0d9d459f37722638

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Anonymous wrote:Flip it. Make an app to receive live bids from fast food shops, and customer can pick the best offer.

I really wouldn't want the burger someone was wiling to sell me for the cheapest price. It would probably be yesterdays' burger or the one that fell on the floor.

Would you rather pay more for the same burger?

I don't eat fast food burgers at all, but buying restaurant food just because it was the cheapest turns me off even more and wouldn't lure me in. This type of app would turn me off and I suspect others.

Good for you for being totally price incentive. Most people aren't rich.

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Anonymous wrote:I just paid $26 for McDonald's for my two kids. Outrageous.

That's what a huge spike in minimum wage will do to food prices.

Total BS. It's not going to the workers. And they SHOULD get an increase. No one can live on what they are getting paid.

So minimum wage isn't going to the workers?!
Man, you are dense!

Your skull certainly is full of plenty of low density air.
Try to follow along for more than one sentence. Price increases aren't going to workers. They go to shareholders and exec bonuses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I predict this will be like when AMC tried to charge premium prices for "good" seats in the cinema. It won't get any traction and Wendy's will abandon it.

(https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amc-seating-pricing-plan-abandoned/#:~:text=The%20company%20has%20abandoned%20its,initiative%20pilot%20at%20three%20theaters.)

There's no shortage of competition for consumers who want fast food. I can't think of a single Wendy's menu item, save for a Frosty, that someone might pay a premium for. And even then if someone has a sweet tooth they'll just get a shake from McDonald's or BK or something.

They did away with their premium pricing? You know when that story first came out I then avoided going to AMC because of it. If they did away with it, they did a lousy job at communicating that. And see it left a very negative impression and basically they lost a customer. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flip it. Make an app to receive live bids from fast food shops, and customer can pick the best offer.

I really wouldn't want the burger someone was wiling to sell me for the cheapest price. It would probably be yesterdays' burger or the one that fell on the floor.

Would you rather pay more for the same burger?

I don't eat fast food burgers at all, but buying restaurant food just because it was the cheapest turns me off even more and wouldn't lure me in. This type of app would turn me off and I suspect others.

Good for you for being totally price incentive. Most people aren't rich.

It's much cheaper to just buy 1lb of 80/20 beef and buns and make your own. You're rich if you don't know that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I just paid $26 for McDonald's for my two kids. Outrageous.

That's what a huge spike in minimum wage will do to food prices.

Total BS. It's not going to the workers. And they SHOULD get an increase. No one can live on what they are getting paid.

So minimum wage isn't going to the workers?!
Man, you are dense!

Your skull certainly is full of plenty of low density air.
Try to follow along for more than one sentence. Price increases aren't going to workers. They go to shareholders and exec bonuses.

But we already established that all the costs are higher across the board, including labor. Somebody has to pay. The voters wanted the min wage increases, so it makes sense to pass the costs along to them.

[Anonymous]

It's ridiculous. I feel like companies are not getting that they're not so essential, and when their main quality is being cheap, raising prices too much or weirdly like this will piss people off. It's happening to Walmart, they are closing stores because they got too greedy so people shopped elsewhere.

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My large Diet Coke is still $1.29 so I am good.

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[Anonymous]

Could go for a Dave’s Double and a Frosty about now

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t eat fast food often, but consider Wendy’s to be bottom tier of the fast food options. This just solidifies it for me. I can’t imagine Chick Fil A pulling this crap.

Chick-fil-A charges surge pricing all day every day except Sunday.

Chick fil a sells delicious food that comes with pleasant, efficient customer service.

Each CFA order comes with a side of homophobia at no additional price!

[Anonymous]

Somebody told me Wendy's was going to start charging based on how many customers were there. My first reaction was that in that case the food will likely be free because who actually eats there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somebody told me Wendy's was going to start charging based on how many customers were there. My first reaction was that in that case the food will likely be free because who actually eats there?

I eat there as I like their $4 meal deals.