Wendy’s has spoken to its manager after suggestions that it plans to introduce “surge pricing” to its menu received a decidedly frosty response this week, with the company scrambling to clarify that it has no intention of making itself the Uber of fast-food chains.
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.
People still purchase Wendy’s, he’s got good reason to think that.
I think they hired the CEO of Unity
Yeah, I wasn’t going to go there. He’s probably right. At least about enough of their patrons to make more money
What’s wrong with them going currently? They haven’t/never even made the change. Most probably have no idea
Wendy’s food turned to crap when Dave died. Like that same week.
It will be the anti surge. Just charge prices 3x higher but if you own the app and come in between 1pm and 5pm you can get 50% off. I hate this “own the app for discounts” but this is 100% what will happen. Id be willing to wager my sons entire life on this.
I’ll take you up on that wager.
Welcome to the McDonalds app.
Their app isn’t too bad (at least for now). It has enough data collection that I wouldn’t want to download it, but it just strait spyware like some fast food apps cough McDonald’s.
It’s tracking location.
That’s a pretty massive red flag for an app that has exactly zero need for it.
It’s for store finding. While you and I might not use it a lot of people do.
Sure it is. I believe you.
(Or is it that store finding is the excuse?)
Speaking of things that the McDonald’s app has access to, I just double checked mine on Android and it has permissions to access your pictures and files by default, I’m sure it was part of that thing that you just select through in order to access the app but that’s kind of concerning can understand location, files is a little weird
The earlier version required access to all your files to even start. They did update it to not need that anymore. But if you already had it installed with access to files, it kept that access.
But, yes, that’s completely unacceptable they required that at all.
I think all CEOs think their clientele are dumb. It’s literally the only real requirement to be a CEO, besides already being rich and knowing the right people.
This is exactly what Sonic does with drinks. They used to have a half price afternoon window, but now I believe you have to use the app to get it (not 100% sure, their food is garbage)
I haven’t been to Sonic in ages.
there’s an old not-chain drive-in diner near here that’s a thousand times better. (and I mean, like it’s been around long enough to have been one of the OG’s.) IIRC, the only thing I really liked was their ice.
The CEO should be fired. Thousands of restaurants already have variable, demand based pricing, but no one cares because those restaurants call it “happy hour”.