WTF Wendy's Burgers got smaller?!?!?!

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

It's my right as an American to get as fat as a cow if I want to!

Enjoy!

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

for all you know he could be in amazing shape, and just wants a filling burger

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

It's my right as an American to get as fat as a cow if I want to!

Enjoy!

I shudder at the amount of calories in that pic. Does 4,000 seem like a good guess?

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: cherrytwist

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

Kinda reminds me of this guy.

Now THAT's a true American!

 

[fustercluck]

They need to change how they look in the commercials or it's lawsuit time. The burgers are 4x as big in the commercials. Other fast food chains have similar antics in their ads, but not so ridiculous.

 

[Jhill]

Originally posted by: Quintox

Originally posted by: cherrytwist

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

Kinda reminds me of this guy.

Now THAT's a true American!

Cross that guy and he'll rip your nuts off. Guaranteed.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: cherrytwist

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

Kinda reminds me of this guy.

FTMFW!!

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: xeemzor

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

It's my right as an American to get as fat as a cow if I want to!

Enjoy!

I shudder at the amount of calories in that pic. Does 4,000 seem like a good guess?

No f'in way is 4000 a good guess. That thing is huge, its probably closer to 10000 Calories.

Large sandwiches that you can get are sitting around 2500 calories. That cheeseburger has got to be at least 3x more massive than those large sandwiches you can find at Sabbraros (sp?)

 

[Jhill]

Originally posted by: Tiamat

Originally posted by: cherrytwist

Originally posted by: NFS4
Not surprising. Americans with their ever-expanding waistlines complaining about downsized portions

Kinda reminds me of this guy.

FTMFW!!

The first quote on youtube.

"I'm not a big fan of rednecks but this guy is awesome."

LOL

 

[Injury]

We had this same thread back in the fall and it's STILL dead wrong.


The Wendy's junior has been and still is a 2oz burger and a Wendy's single is and has been a 4oz burger.

Maybe the issue isn't that the burgers got smaller, but your ass got bigger.

 

[ballmode]

WHERE's THE BEEF!??

 

[Farang]

The burger isn't getting getting smaller, everything else is getting bigger.

 

[SithSolo1]

The new patties on the stack attack are indeed smaller. The corners didn't even reach over the edge of the bun. Then again the two I had were well overcooked so maybe they shrank a bit.

I was hugely disappointed. I was expecting the ole double stack at 99c but with a new name.

 

[George P Burdell]

Oh noes, the recession has hit Wendy's!!!

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Their service has gone down the toilet probably due to heavy cost cutting to stay in business. I bought a spicy chicken fillet combo for lunch yesterday and was disappointed in every possible way. Bad communication, painfully slow service, TERRIBLE presentation - ugly workers, food wrapper did not completely wrap the burger and burger had half a soggy slice of lettuce and a beat up slice of tomato with uncentered sauce and to top it off, the bun had a small break in it which looked like someone gouged it with his fingers. My chocolate frosty was overfilled and they didn't even bother to wipe off the excess from the side of the paper cup. The fries were not hot and did not look appetizing at all. I can't possibly go back again.

a) Your one bad experience at a restaurant is not an indication of experiences we will have at restaurants all over the nation

b) Your story doesn't include you complaining and asking them to fix their problems, so I'm certain that you not only didn't do it, but you don't realize that by NOT complaining you are only justifying terrible service.

c) You'll be back eventually.

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven

Originally posted by: KK
Go to hardee's and get a monster burger. I got one the other day, it was pretty good, although the damn thing ran 8.44 including tax for the combo. A far cry from wendy's jr bacon cheeseburger.

Does Carl's Jr. carry that one?

Carls' Jr. = Hardee's.
CJ is more west coast methinks.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
The new patties on the stack attack are indeed smaller. The corners didn't even reach over the edge of the bun. Then again the two I had were well overcooked so maybe they shrank a bit.

I was hugely disappointed. I was expecting the ole double stack at 99c but with a new name.

No.

Here's the deal:

Wendy's cooks their food to order. It's not like McDonald's where they cook patties and put them in a drawer to use when needed, but your burger is rolling off the grill seconds after you order it. To do this, the grill operator needs to somehow be clairvoyant and figure exactly how much meat will be needed at any given time or service will come to a halt. In the past, this has only caused them to over-produce cooked burgers, and while they use the excess for their chili, you can only prevent loss for as much chili as you sell. The typical store had a problem that caused them to throw away about 20 pounds of meat a week. This is a huge waste, both financially and from a conservation standpoint.

In an effort to reduce their waste, many stores started using "clamshell" grills to cook their meat. It cooks twice as fast (as heat is applied to both top & bottom) and allows them to be more precise in their timing, as meat cooks in about the same time as it takes to serve a customer from the time they walk in to the time they have their order.

The problem is that previously, when the meat was previously cooked by someone with a spatula, the meat was pressed out so that it got thinner and cooked thorougly without scorching... This made the meat appear bigger. The clamshell grills don't press the meat as well (thus the patties tend to tighten up a bit and stay more square than they previously did).

So again, if you want to contest this I suggest you call Wendy's directly and ask them because for as much time as I spent flipping burgers in my high school days, I can promise you I would have noticed a change and I'm not seeing it.


Sorry that your own fat asses are misleading your eyes.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: SithSolo1
The new patties on the stack attack are indeed smaller. The corners didn't even reach over the edge of the bun. Then again the two I had were well overcooked so maybe they shrank a bit.

I was hugely disappointed. I was expecting the ole double stack at 99c but with a new name.

No.

Here's the deal:

Wendy's cooks their food to order. It's not like McDonald's where they cook patties and put them in a drawer to use when needed, but your burger is rolling off the grill seconds after you order it. To do this, the grill operator needs to somehow be clairvoyant and figure exactly how much meat will be needed at any given time or service will come to a halt. In the past, this has only caused them to over-produce cooked burgers, and while they use the excess for their chili, you can only prevent loss for as much chili as you sell. The typical store had a problem that caused them to throw away about 20 pounds of meat a week. This is a huge waste, both financially and from a conservation standpoint.

In an effort to reduce their waste, many stores started using "clamshell" grills to cook their meat. It cooks twice as fast (as heat is applied to both top & bottom) and allows them to be more precise in their timing, as meat cooks in about the same time as it takes to serve a customer from the time they walk in to the time they have their order.

The problem is that previously, when the meat was previously cooked by someone with a spatula, the meat was pressed out so that it got thinner and cooked thorougly without scorching... This made the meat appear bigger. The clamshell grills don't press the meat as well (thus the patties tend to tighten up a bit and stay more square than they previously did).

So again, if you want to contest this I suggest you call Wendy's directly and ask them because for as much time as I spent flipping burgers in my high school days, I can promise you I would have noticed a change and I'm not seeing it.


Sorry that your own fat asses are misleading your eyes.

20 lbs. is not a huge amount over a week. that's what, 3 lbs. a day, at their cost its probably around 5 dollars a day. I would think that they would have more loss.

 

[da loser]

no one else eats at wendy's?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: da loser
no one else eats at wendy's?

i havent been there is 5 or so years

Taco Bell > Arbys > *.fastfoot

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: da loser
no one else eats at wendy's?

I think that I've had fast food twice since coming home and both times was...

A) Disgusted by the food quality
B) Disgusted by the employees
C) Disgusted by the cleanliness of the "restaurant"
D) Horribly sick immediately after eating
E) All of the above!!!

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: KK
20 lbs. is not a huge amount over a week. that's what, 3 lbs. a day, at their cost its probably around 5 dollars a day. I would think that they would have more loss.

If you've ever worked food service you know that no food waste is considered an acceptable loss and anything that can be done to prevent this will be done.

Even 5 dollars a day is a couple grand a year, and in food service most manager's bonuses are based off of food loss. What manager wouldn't jump for joy at the prospect of reducing waste knowing that money will pretty much go straight to their pocket? Also consider that store managers don't report profit, they report sales. 20lbs per week is 80 single hamburgers not sold, which nearly a few hundred dollars of lost opportunity.

Consider that many fast food restaurants barely crest at $1 million a year in sales and that when you're talking a million dollars from selling hamburgers and french fries, every penny counts.

The American trend is to make money by reducing costs, and even if these grills take a couple years to pay for themselves, it'll be worth it in the long run.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: KK
20 lbs. is not a huge amount over a week. that's what, 3 lbs. a day, at their cost its probably around 5 dollars a day. I would think that they would have more loss.

If you've ever worked food service you know that no food waste is considered an acceptable loss and anything that can be done to prevent this will be done.

Even 5 dollars a day is a couple grand a year, and in food service most manager's bonuses are based off of food loss. What manager wouldn't jump for joy at the prospect of reducing waste knowing that money will pretty much go straight to their pocket? Also consider that store managers don't report profit, they report sales. 20lbs per week is 80 single hamburgers not sold, which nearly a few hundred dollars of lost opportunity.

Consider that many fast food restaurants barely crest at $1 million a year in sales and that when you're talking a million dollars from selling hamburgers and french fries, every penny counts.

The American trend is to make money by reducing costs, and even if these grills take a couple years to pay for themselves, it'll be worth it in the long run.

Having worked at a Wendys (and I have a friend who is now a SM at one) I can attest to how adamant they are about food numbers and waste. Everday there are multiple food counts, and at the end of the night they will input food numbers into the computer to track them.

They were most strict about any and all chicken products.

 

[Dunbar]

Originally posted by: da loser
no one else eats at wendy's?

I do, I like the double stack combo with chili. The one by my work has a really fast drive through.

 

[Eos]

When I was in high school almost 20 years ago, the Dairy Queen Peanut Buster Parfait came with a long red spoon. When you consumed the treat and reached the bottom of the cup, your fingers would get chocolate on them from the rim of the cup. These days, the spoon towers over the cup.

I strongly doubt they increased the length of the spoons if normal cost cutting measures described above have been taken over the years.

You might also notice thinner napkins, cups or straws.

Alluding to the Jimmy Dean guy, I have also noticed in the grocery store some orange juice manufacturers have stopped selling the 128 oz. size in favor of a 104 oz. or smaller container. Same price (or near to it), natch.

Good times.

At least a poound of butter is still a pound of butter.