So to clarify, they’re saying that they’ll roll it out in ‘25 or so. And that it will be only used for discounts.

What they’re not sayin, is that they’re going to take the year to jack prices to 3x normal- incrementally so people won’t notice all at once.

Then they will offer discounts- 50%, maybe.

So even the discounted price will still be 1.5x more costly, while the surge pricing is 3x.

Further, they’ll probably tie the discounts to app use; an app which invades your phone and gives them shitloads of data.

Tl:dr: Wendy’s CEO thinks we’re all dumb.

As a show of good faith, fire your CEO.

Fuck them for even suggesting it.

Boycott anyway. Show we can't be fucked with else next business will call our bluff.

Probably a PR stunt. If heard more about Wendy’s the last 2 days than the last year.

Bullshit. They will roll it out in two years when everyone has forgotten. Just to be on the safe side I will probably never eat there again

Because corporations and politicians always keep their vows.

Vow will be broken in 5...4...3...2...

"Online fury" is a most excellent expression.

Online furies have been awakened and now you can't stop them, Wendy's!

Edit: fixed grammar

The working class economy: 💀

Wendy's: We're raising prices!

People: 😡

Wendy's: Wait, that makes you mad?

Don't worry, they're going to a subscription burger based model. You'll have to pay them each month to enter the restaurant.

I think this was a publicity stunt. We'd all just about completely forgot Wendy's exists... So they come out with this wild idea, let it float for a couple of days and then cancel it. Smooth PR move.

It's the Magic 8-ball response. Reply hazy, will try again later

On top of the surge pricing the bastards have been spamming me with emails. Damned if I can remember when I used my email with them, but their opt out mechanism has me pissed. Have to type in my email after hitting the link, then clearly remain on the list. Sure, FTC rules say you get 30 days or something before I need to stop receiving emails, but virtually every other marketer seems to take me off immediately.

Why did they even announce it? Just start doing it and wait to see if people care when they notice. You should be able to figure out people aren't going to like it.

No one puts out a giant advertisement that their prices are going up. Trial balloon maybe, to gauge reaction?

now that it’s over, and i know it’s different bc it’s not a starvation wage mega corp, but remember when a bar in michigan did exactly this? i remember reddit being so enamored with this

posting works!!!

imagine coming up with this shit -- you must know the evil you're releasing upon the world. like even if you're a shithead billionaire, if this god-awful mechanism were to take hold, it'd be annoying and awful for you too right?

Too late shithead, shove your square burgers right up your ass which is convenient because now you can eat them yourself

Late stage capitalism in its essence

We did it, Lemmee!

When you’re crazy busy in the kitchen (of a crappy restaurant), you sandbag. Meaning you prepare extra food than is needed because you know the order is coming so you’re cooking in anticipation of the next order. If by “surge pricing” they would discount during the chaos, they’d probably make more money. I haven’t been to Wendy’s in quite a while but when I saw the story break a few days ago I said to myself “I’m completely done, fuck those greedy assholes”