Wendy's is instituting a "Surge pricing"

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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!

The Chick-fil-A racism line is old, lazy and played out.

[Anonymous]

They screwed up majorly and now offering free cinnamon buns today. No purchase is necessary! Go!

[Anonymous]

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

Are you, though? It's supposed to $1. They're raised the price to $1.29.

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I buy the Happy Meal at McDonald’s at its under $5.00.

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Anonymous wrote:

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!

Oh, I started eating it again after that’s MAGAts started whining about how it’s now “woke chicken”. If it’s pissing these people off it must be doing something right.
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/02/maga-woman-grieves-after-finding-out-chick-fil-a-is-serving-woke-chicken-video.html

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I would pay $25 for an egg McMuffin when it’s 10:35 and I just realized I need an egg McMuffin.

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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.

Hey dense one.
Price increases are needed to fund the increased minimum wage rate.

[Anonymous]

I wandered over to the food and cooking section of DCUM because I had in mind to make a whole new post about the cost of making burgers at home vs. the price of a Wendy's burger.
By coincidence, other people seem to have Wendy's pricing on their minds as well since this thread is here and current.

I guess what I had in mind to say kind of goes along with this thread.
So . . yesterday I made 17 hamburgers. After I was done, just for fun I pulled out my grocery store receipt and calculated how much each burger made at home ended up costing. I came up with $2.45 per burger.
I was out on errands today and the weather was nice, so I went into Wendy's just to look at their menu and see how much a quarter pound single burger costs. It costs $5.60. Grocery store food is not taxed, but Wendy's is. So it would actually be about $6 for a Wendy's single.

Here is my math breakdown:
5 pound chub of ground beef: $18
I mixed in with the ground beef 9 eggs and 2 packages of store brand lipton onion soup mix: $3.25
16 buns (I bought better quality of buns than the Wendy's kind): $6.50
3 tomatoes: $3
2 onions: $1.50
1 head of iceberg lettuce: $2
American cheese or cheddar cheese slices I had on hand but let's estimate a cost for 17 burgers at: $3
Condiments, pickle slices: $2
electricity costs for cooking at home: $2.50.
That all comes to $41.75, which comes to $2.45 per burger.

That is all I wanted to say.

[Anonymous]

ANY restaurant that tries to institute surge pricing or dynamic pricing will become a restaurant that I boycott forever.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they can make Wendy masculine.
That line of thinking worked so well for Bud Lite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wandered over to the food and cooking section of DCUM because I had in mind to make a whole new post about the cost of making burgers at home vs. the price of a Wendy's burger.
By coincidence, other people seem to have Wendy's pricing on their minds as well since this thread is here and current.

I guess what I had in mind to say kind of goes along with this thread.
So . . yesterday I made 17 hamburgers. After I was done, just for fun I pulled out my grocery store receipt and calculated how much each burger made at home ended up costing. I came up with $2.45 per burger.
I was out on errands today and the weather was nice, so I went into Wendy's just to look at their menu and see how much a quarter pound single burger costs. It costs $5.60. Grocery store food is not taxed, but Wendy's is. So it would actually be about $6 for a Wendy's single.

Here is my math breakdown:
5 pound chub of ground beef: $18
I mixed in with the ground beef 9 eggs and 2 packages of store brand lipton onion soup mix: $3.25
16 buns (I bought better quality of buns than the Wendy's kind): $6.50
3 tomatoes: $3
2 onions: $1.50
1 head of iceberg lettuce: $2
American cheese or cheddar cheese slices I had on hand but let's estimate a cost for 17 burgers at: $3
Condiments, pickle slices: $2
electricity costs for cooking at home: $2.50.
That all comes to $41.75, which comes to $2.45 per burger.

That is all I wanted to say.

Did you factor in your rent and utilities and give yourself a salary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would pay $25 for an egg McMuffin when it’s 10:35 and I just realized I need an egg McMuffin.

Ew. They are not that good. My local bakery makes a knock off one to order all day for like $6. They always toast the english muffin extra and use lots of butter, cheddar or provolone cheese - not the orange cheese McDonald's uses. Last time I went to McDonald's the english muffin tasted like sawdust - not toasted, no butter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ANY restaurant that tries to institute surge pricing or dynamic pricing will become a restaurant that I boycott forever.

They already surge. Midday slow time from like 2-4 a lot of fast food places have special low cost pricing. Restaurants also surge price during lunch, everything is cheaper than dinner to drive traffic. Bars and bars inside of restaurants have surge pricing during happy hour before dinner rush.

This Wendy's thing probably went viral because of some wall street sharks blasting it with bots and PR to short the stock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wandered over to the food and cooking section of DCUM because I had in mind to make a whole new post about the cost of making burgers at home vs. the price of a Wendy's burger.
By coincidence, other people seem to have Wendy's pricing on their minds as well since this thread is here and current.

I guess what I had in mind to say kind of goes along with this thread.
So . . yesterday I made 17 hamburgers. After I was done, just for fun I pulled out my grocery store receipt and calculated how much each burger made at home ended up costing. I came up with $2.45 per burger.
I was out on errands today and the weather was nice, so I went into Wendy's just to look at their menu and see how much a quarter pound single burger costs. It costs $5.60. Grocery store food is not taxed, but Wendy's is. So it would actually be about $6 for a Wendy's single.

Here is my math breakdown:
5 pound chub of ground beef: $18
I mixed in with the ground beef 9 eggs and 2 packages of store brand lipton onion soup mix: $3.25
16 buns (I bought better quality of buns than the Wendy's kind): $6.50
3 tomatoes: $3
2 onions: $1.50
1 head of iceberg lettuce: $2
American cheese or cheddar cheese slices I had on hand but let's estimate a cost for 17 burgers at: $3
Condiments, pickle slices: $2
electricity costs for cooking at home: $2.50.
That all comes to $41.75, which comes to $2.45 per burger.

That is all I wanted to say.

Did you factor in your rent and utilities and give yourself a salary?

No. Rent and utilities would be the same whether I cook at home or go get takeout. In regard to giving myself a salary, I would have to take it out of my bank account, present it to myself, the re-deposit it back in the same bank account. So no, I did not factor all that in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wandered over to the food and cooking section of DCUM because I had in mind to make a whole new post about the cost of making burgers at home vs. the price of a Wendy's burger.
By coincidence, other people seem to have Wendy's pricing on their minds as well since this thread is here and current.

I guess what I had in mind to say kind of goes along with this thread.
So . . yesterday I made 17 hamburgers. After I was done, just for fun I pulled out my grocery store receipt and calculated how much each burger made at home ended up costing. I came up with $2.45 per burger.
I was out on errands today and the weather was nice, so I went into Wendy's just to look at their menu and see how much a quarter pound single burger costs. It costs $5.60. Grocery store food is not taxed, but Wendy's is. So it would actually be about $6 for a Wendy's single.

Here is my math breakdown:
5 pound chub of ground beef: $18
I mixed in with the ground beef 9 eggs and 2 packages of store brand lipton onion soup mix: $3.25
16 buns (I bought better quality of buns than the Wendy's kind): $6.50
3 tomatoes: $3
2 onions: $1.50
1 head of iceberg lettuce: $2
American cheese or cheddar cheese slices I had on hand but let's estimate a cost for 17 burgers at: $3
Condiments, pickle slices: $2
electricity costs for cooking at home: $2.50.
That all comes to $41.75, which comes to $2.45 per burger.

That is all I wanted to say.

Did you factor in your rent and utilities and give yourself a salary?

No. Rent and utilities would be the same whether I cook at home or go get takeout. In regard to giving myself a salary, I would have to take it out of my bank account, present it to myself, the re-deposit it back in the same bank account. So no, I did not factor all that in.

So you admit your time is worth nothing?