Wendy’s
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Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy's and in interviews on many talk shows he stated that he has NO daughter named Wendy. so why is there a Wendy on TV saying that Dad wanted it that way. own your stuff lies are lies and there is NO Wendy so quit. are you saying that it is okay to lie to sell something. are you saying that to our children. stop lying.

I've been working at Wendy's for about a year now. I'm one of their only sandwich makers. One day, I was working a day shift from 7:00 to 4:00. At around lunch rush, I was put on sandwiches. I'm making sandwiches and my manager complains that I'm not calling out orders. This is not normal for me because in the ten months I was working there, I never had to call out sandwiches due mostly to the fact that the other managers didn't care if I did or not. As long as I let them know if I was holding a sandwich, they were okay with it.
Well, I was calling them out as asked. At one point, I told them I was holding a sandwich while waiting on meat for it. They had a sandwich in the drive thru lane so they grabbed it and sent it out to the wrong car. It was a spicy chicken meant for the car after the burger. The manager who told me to call out sandwiches yelled at me and asked why I didn't tell him. I told him I did and was immediately hushed. He told me I needed to be louder. So, when the sandwich came up, I said it louder. Apparently too loud as he got mad.
That same day, around 2:30, I was making a half salad for drive thru. Someone up front ordered a grilled sandwich and I went to grab the chicken but realized I didn't have the grilled. I told the manager that he needed to go up front and tell them it would be an eleven minute wait. He said okay and walked to the front. Later, he comes to me and asked me, yelling I mind you, where is the grilled sandwich. I looked in my drawer, pointed, and said, "With what grilled?" After this, he calls me into his office.
When I get into the office, he starts yelling and telling me that he is tired of my 'attitude' and he starts going off on how I am a terrible worker. I tried to say something and he said, quote on quote, "No, no. Let me f***ing finish!". He continues to yell at me until I get a break. I tell him that working sandwiches all the time is stressful. I apologized. I said to him, " I mean, how do you think this makes me feel?" His answer was extremely unprofessional, and I quote, " Frankly, I don't give a f**k."
I told him I wasn't going to take this and I left the office, clocked out and went home. I am not putting this out here to fume, but just giving insight to what we deal with.

The worst company I worked for in my entire job career. Although I don't work there anymore, it's safe to say after reading the varies comments on this forum, that I wasn't alone and that it IS very much the same at any Wendys as it appears. Yes I was harassed and talked down to by certain shift managers/co-workers and treated like a non-human. I was pressured to do everything the "Wendys way" whenever the district manager was present and it was a pain in the you-know-what. So Whenever the DM was at our store, we would perform staged theater but of course chaos occurred after DM left store and the atrocities continue! I mean you would swear you were working for a Nazi- concentration camp by the actions and ways these ### managers were treating the employees...

The co-workers were skin-headed and racist towards me and I remember never even being able to get a "30 minute break". I remember signing the agreement for "speak-out" yet haven't seen the information on the wall. The website that I posted on here will give you more information about my experience tat this place and what I'm doing right now that has literally changed my life. Dare I say it, but it could also change yours too if you read my story

My family and I wen to Wendy's one day. I love Wendy's but I usually didn't go to the one we did. Well, the sweet tea tasted horrible. There was no sugar and it tasted like water tea. My mom brother and two other ladies returned their drink and demanded a different one. The lady behind the counter gave them their drink. I went up their and the lady got an attitude. I said "may i change" and i held up my drink and she snatched the drink out of my hand and said what do you want to drink. I wanted to slap the lady but I said... wait for it... soda. She whisper yelled which. I said i don't know and then she just gave me coke. I said i wanted sprite and she just looked at me. Someone else came and changed my drink.

An Associated Press article published in today's 11/9/2012 Daily Herald quotes Wendy's CEO, Emil Brolick from a conference call with analysts covering Wendy's quarterly earnings report. He is reporting as saying that "Wendy's can keep improving the image of its food without paying that much more for ingredients." I understand that as good business in my opinion. However, I find the following quote an insult to the both the public's intelligence, taste and smart-spending habits. Unbelievable, Emil Brolick was quoted as saying during the Thursday call that it was the "perceived quality" that customers care about - not the actual ingredients". We believe that we can be more astute about that than we have been in the past." THANKS Emil for telling me Wendy's is heading to improve profits. I understand that as long as I "perceive quality", you believe that I'll continue to frequent Wendy's no matter the ingredients in my food? Such honesty. The date of my last Wendy's visit will remain the same. Wendy's has lost my business. Thanks again, Emil. Gary in Aurora.

Today I was so excited to finally get a chance to order thee new Portobello Mushroom Cheese Burger theat has been advertised so widely... Once at theis location on 715 West 18the st Houston TX
i quickly became disappointed withe thee whole experience.
I was noticing thee supervisor lady at thee check out counter were being really rude to a poor older lady theat were saying her bowl of chili was half full and she just wanted more.. They keep trying to explain to her theat it's just like theat... I theought wow theey are so wrong and rude! 
What thee hell?!? The world is going to end if theey add more chili to thee poor old ladies bowl? Got Damn for heaven sacks!
They should imagine what if theat was theeir grandma or parent, and not be so rude to an older lady at theat!
Anyways, I had placed my order after seeing theat hoping notheing would be wrong withe my stuff...
So I ordered thee mushroom burger combo and chili cheese fries and a large Raspberry Sweet Tea. Once I received thee food, I noticed theat thee cheese wasn't melted on thee chili cheese fries so I asked thee lady at thee counter to please put it in thee microwave but she just gave me a dirty loOK and stated she couldn't do theat cause it would melt thee plate...
I was like; Wow! Are you really serious!?!?!?! I guess its my turn to get bad customer service, right?
I said OK never mind theank you anyways...
I didn't want to argue, so I went to sit down..
Once I sat down sometheing told me before I take thee first bite, i decided to check my food.
I theought OH DAMN, is theis a Crazy Dream or a show or sometheing? Cause theere was only 2 Mushrooms in thee burger!
I wanted to get up and complain but theere was too many people ordering, still I decided to just blow it off and just shut up and eat my food..
  I don't theink theese kind of workers should be in theis kind of business withe a bad attitude, specially when theey represent a big hamburger corporation like Wendy's. I'm a good customer of Wendy's but theis kind of event and service does not care for people to go back to theis Wendy's is what it seems. 

The drive through was soooo slow, as I watched the McDonalds across the street processed 15 cars while Wendys did 2!
After I finally got my "baconator" back to the office 3 minutes away, It was ice cold and there was no ketchup for my fries. Did they ask, would you like some ketchup? No! Did they say sorry for the 10+ minute wait? No! Will I ever go back to this Wendys? Hell NO!

i have been with wendys for over 20 years and i have never felt so bad as i did when we had a visit from our new DM and some one else by the name of jim who came in with her he never introduced his self to us nither did she when she came to our store they were very stuck up and ungrateful u know what u may make more money then me and were a different out fit to work but u r no better then anybody else we r human not to be treated like low lifes all u care about is procedure and your bottom line well let me tell u if not for us u people would not have a job and the customers would not come back so the next u walk into a store with that attitude think about it i well work harder for someone i respect before someone i dont things have sure changed over the years but not for the better and guess what had my 24 years i have been at wendys no raise no thank you no nothing wow u get what u pay for

Wendy's is the only place I buy my French Fries. Even if I buy the rest of my meal somewhere else, I always stop at Wendy's to get my fries.

Today, I stopped at Wendy's and went inside to order my fries. I was told they were just being made. I like that, that means they are going to be nice and hot. This Wendy's ALWAYS has nice hot fries, they really are the bestest!

Anyway, I got my order to go and the bag was steaming hot.

However, those great fries that I'm so used to, were completely ruined by so much salt that they put on them. Now, I have always been one that salts everything, so for me to say something was too salty is really a surprise to others.

After eating just a few fries, my tongue and the roof of my mouth were actually sore and felt raw. My Dad sat down to eat his and he had the same problem. I was so disappointed because they were so fresh and hot and just enough crispiness on the outside yet hot and soft on the inside, which is the way I would describe the PERFECT Fry! I tried to ignore the salt for as long as I could. Then, I even took my fingers and rubbed the salt off each fry before I ate them. It was really hard for me to just throw them away, because as I said, they were cooked so perfectly...but the salt was just too much to handle.

I don't know if one employee salted them, then maybe another came along and salted them, not knowing they were already salted...but why-o-why would you ruin such a beautiful, perfectly cooked fry like that? WHY? WHY? WHY? My Dad and I just couldn't finish them because our mouth and tongue were so sore. It's now been about two hours since I ate them and the inside of my upper lip feels a bit swollen.

I hate to write a compliant because this Wendy's location have always served perfect food for as long as I've been going there...but I just needed to bring this to their attention.

Yeah, I'll still go there and yeah, I'll still buy my fries there, hoping this was just a one time thing.

Proof of supervisor spitting in food. Kyra johnston is the name. I'm so discussed. Never again will I eat there. Email me and I'll send proof. Lorissa.[protected]@gmail.com

Have not visited since last problem I had, but did not have much of choice. Ordered a double baconator, got a single. I remembered last experience and checked to see if the order was complete in the parking lot. sure enough it was wrong. I have yet to have an order correct at this location. If you must go, go inside (be warned that it is very dirty) or do not leave the drive through window without confirming everything. (even though they throw the bag at you and close the window without a word). Manager was very surly, I will not go again.

The manger that was working May 25, 2012 at 6:23pm Jordan. was a very rude person to another customer. I did not like that at all he maybe a manager but there is no way that they should be rude to anyone. I think the store in Lufkin, Texas should have a little better hold on their employees if they want to keep there customers happy and wanting to come back to their store. Also the store dining room was a mess and there were a lot of tables dirty. I think that they also should hire people that have a outgoing personality and are great-ful to have a job. Because some people don't have jobs in this economy. And every time I go into Wendy's my fries are always cold and they're is no on one at the front counter. Thank you and I hope the next time I visit I hope there is a better expirence.

After a long day at work on my way home my husband insisted on us not having to cook on X-mas eve. He wanted to go to MCDonalds and I insisted that Wendy’s would be much better and how much I love Wendy’s Hot Chili. We were parked behind a customer for more than 10minutes and we were wondering how much can this people be ordering since they were taking a very long time. It was our car and another car behind us that had been waiting for our turn. When we finally got to the speaker to place our order the employee on the speaker told us they couldn’t take our order that their grill was turned off and closed for the night.

Which I believe was not true how can it be turned off and still have to cook the order for the car from Maryland that had taken over 10 minutes with their order. A young male employee also came out and told us we can’t take your order, we explained to them how we had chosen to be parked their for more than 10 minutes instead of going to McDonalds and he told us that they would not help us it was closed and that was it. My husband and I were very dissapointed. We went to MCDonalds down the street that was is being remodeled and we received the best customer service!

My husband told me, we should have come here in the first place. This Wendy’s is at Central Fl Parkway by SeaWorld.

I have just recently moved to Louisiana from Massachusetts about 4 or 5 months ago and I have been working at Wendy’s for about 3 and a half months .and so far I’ve been what I think is a model employee in 3 and a half months I have never missed a day I have never been late, I always come when I’m called to come in . Now I told you that to tell you this. Now sence I’ve worked on several occasions I’ve worked 10 plus hours with out breaks.

I plan on going back to school very soon and I came to the management about that and I told them that I might have to tweak my schedule a little bit and I still have to make a living so the only day I had asked them to take me off the schedule was Fridays and then the next thing I know is the following week I was taken off the schedule every day but Fridays . Witch to me seems a little unfair and maybe a little retaliatory !

And further more I opened a bank account about 6-8 weeks ago just so I can set up direct deposit for my self so all my bills could be paid on time so I brought my bank info to my manager so I can get it all set up and sence then my direct deposit hasn’t gone threw wich throws me into finachle debt because all my bill electronicly pull out on every other Friday sence I get paid bi weekly and every time my bills go to pull out and theirs no money in my account do to no direct deposit I get charged 25 $ in surcharges no I’m righting so I can hopefully get all this stuff rectified….

I was at a local dinner party last night with my husband and we left around midnight and we had taken seperate cars. I decided to stop off at Wendys(the same location from the last complaint)since it was close by and still open, to get a frosty. This was at midnight, an hour before they are scheduled to close as advertised on their window. I didn't get any response at the drive thru speaker again so I drove up to the window. Lo and behold no one was there again. So I pulled up to the dining area and guess who was all sitting at a table eating again? You guessed it, all the Wendys employees who should have been working. This time I was the one driving and my husband wasn't with me. So I parked and went and banged on the door. The manager Stephanie came to the door and I asked her why they were eating and not working, and that I wanted a Frosty". She said she they were still open and they could make me one;. Then I asked her why she wasn't at the drive thru to take my order:. She said they still keep the headset with them, but that the dining room was closed:. I told her I didn't want to eat in the dining room anyway, I came through the drive thru.. Also, if she had the headset on she would have been able to hear me when I started asking if anyone was there at the speaker|. She didn't have it with her as I could tell/. She lied to me.. I just drove on and I am calling the Wendys headquarters again today.

The wendys on san jose next to the sun tire in jax fla is nasty dirty and the employees are rude loud and very disrecpectful also there manager named edward with the greasy hair is nasty to the customers as well as the employees i heard him curse at an employee and i called the 800 number and he still there the store is very very dirty they serve half cooked burgers and chicken fries always cold that is the worst place to eat and if its the last place on earth to eat i would rather die i just thought ppl should know.

We went through the drive through to order food. At the location of 2525 Barrett Parkway, Marietta Ha. We asked if there were regular chicken nuggets on your 99 cent menu. They told us no, and told us the price of the nuggets. We ordered regular nuggets AND spicy nuggets. We got both spicy nuggets. While I was checking the order, we saw the mistake and had to drive back. We had not recieved a receipt for our order. We wanted to change out the nuggets and these people where so rude!

Not only did they basically call us liars when we told then the mix up. They wouldn’t even switch them out with charging the extra 30 cents. It is 30 cents! How rude could this entire crew be over nuggets and 30 cents? Sorry wendys, if you are struggling so much that you have to keep people like this on your staff and get your thirty cents when this crew messed up. Then you can keep them, and loose this customer instead.