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Ask a Wendy's manager anything. Not a fake fag who makes these threads for fun, located in Easton Pennsylvania.

>> No.5835396

>>5835393
Where's the beef?

>> No.5835401

>>5835393
I recall another Wendy's employee talking about you guys having a set price for adding extra patties and other items to your sandwiches, and that by doing this it's possible to recreate some of your more expensive sandwiches for around half the cost.

Can you tell me more about this?

>> No.5835405

>>5835401
Yes most locations will add bacon, cheese, an extra beef pattie, and other ingredients on your meal for additional costs. You can actually save a lot of money by getting a Double Stacker from the value/dollar menu and paying for bacon and cheese to make a Baconator. You can mix it up with all types of things and save money.

>> No.5835410

Why is your chili so shit?

>> No.5835413

>>5835410
I agree with you 100%. It's horrible. I wish I could change the ingredients or learn the style as to how they cook it to at least make it better.

>> No.5835414

>>5835405
Can you tell me some actual dollar amounts for these additions, at least for your location?

And can you mix meats on sandwiches ordered like this? Like say I wanted both a crispy and a grilled chicken patty, or I wanted a hamburger on a fish sandwich?

>> No.5835416

>>5835401
just double a junior you fucking retard

>> No.5835418

>>5835413
Is there any truth to your chili being made from all the meat too far gone to be used as burgers?

>> No.5835422

It's more like sweet beef stew but I don't give a shit I love Wendy's chili.

>> No.5835424

>>5835414
At my location in Pennsylvania dollar amounts for additions go as followed, bacon $1.00, extra cheese $0.90, extra beef pattie anywhere from $1.40-$1.60. It all depends on location, customers dont usually ask to mix up sandwiches so it would depend. I would go with buying it separate and just making it yourself.

>> No.5835426

>>5835418
I don't know about leftover burger meat but the meat that is in the burgers is in the chili.

>> No.5835427 [DELETED] 

>>5835393
I used to work for Wendy's around 2 years in '03/4. It was pretty cool. My store never did anything gross.

>> No.5835431

>>5835393
Thanks for taking the time to do this OP.

Can you tell us any entertaining stories relating to your customers or coworkers?

>> No.5835432 [DELETED] 

>>5835418
Yes it is absolutely true. But they freeze it for about 3 days then boil the fuck out of it and chop it up before they add it to the chili

>> No.5835453

>>5835393
So, wait...
You actually make the chili on location?
It's not a pre-made vac-packed bag of soup that you simply re-heat to serve?
I find that hard to believe.

>> No.5835454

>>5835431
One time a customer walked in with a huge blunt of marijuana tucked in his ear and ordered the whole menu and payed in cash. My assistant manager was gonna call the cops but I stopped her. It was funny as fuck.

>> No.5835462

Around where I live, Wendy's is one of the better fast food options. Prices are not extraordinary and the burgers actually have some distinguishable meat on them unlike a lot of other fast food places these days.

Where does your store's meat come from? Seeing as it's apparently never frozen, I'm wondering just how far it has to travel.

What complaint do you guys receive the most often?

>> No.5835466

What's something that is rarely/never ordered that you think people should try?

Any off menu stuff?

>> No.5835473

>>5835462
They ship the beef from New Zealand and give it to many distributors around the US. The complaint that my location receives the most is usually speed, but if we get that complaint I turn it around immediately.

>> No.5835474

If I ask, would you guys put tomato and lettuce in my Baconator?

I hate having to go home to chop them up to put into my burger. Pain in the ass.

>> No.5835480

>>5835466
A lot of people dont order the salads, they're not that bad. A secret menu item is the Barnyard which is basically, a beef pattie, bacon, cheese, and a spicy chicken filet. Pretty good.

>> No.5835482

>>5835474
Of course, just ask.

>> No.5835487

Any truth to your different sized orders of fries actually having the same amount in them due to your fry scoop?

>> No.5835488

Really?
I know this is a fast moving thread, but...
>>5835453
Inquiring minds want to know.

>> No.5835489 [DELETED] 

>>5835427 here

>>5835488
Yes, honest to god they do. I had to prep it myself. The powder spice is pre-mixed tho

>> No.5835490

>>5835393
will wends ever bring back there chicken strips?

>> No.5835491

>>5835487
Nope. Small is small. Medium is medium. Large is large.
>>5835488
My bad didnt see it. We make it in huge quantities, so we'll make it then store it and wait till its low and boil up more.

>> No.5835492

>>5835482
I just don't want them to spit in my food if I ask for extra things.

>> No.5835493

>>5835453
>>5835488
induring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOvHZDGK-kY

>> No.5835494

>>5835490
HOPEFULLY

>> No.5835498

>>5835489
>>5835491
That's nuts. Is Wendy's the only place that actually mixes ingredients and cooks?
I wonder.
What are the ratios for the recipe for chili?
I'm not asking for the actual recipe, I'm just curious about the ratios.
As in, 10 lbs beef, 1 packet of spice mix, 3 gallons water...
What is the protocol for making chili?

>> No.5835500

>>5835498
Yeah we mix the ingredients and cook it. A lot of people get shocked when I tell them that ha. Uhh the ratios at my location that are used for one batch is usually 6 parts beef, 2 parts seasoning (or a little more like 2.5) and 2 parts water. The protocol is the make a new batch whenever the other one is low or spoiled/not fresh.

>> No.5835512

>>5835500
Facinating.
What's the protocol for "old" beef/"spoiled" batch?
Is it simply a FIFO/time as a control thing?

>> No.5835513

>>5835512
Oh, and what is a "batch" at your location? 10 20 50 100 pounds beef recipe?

>> No.5835515

>>5835513
About 5-7 pounds of beef.

>> No.5835516

>>5835513
And what is Wendy's protocol for shelf life of the chili (that is cooled and not re-heated)? And do you cool down and re-heat chili that has been sitting in the steam table for too long? Is there an integrity clause that Wendy's uses for chili? I mean, if at a certain point (x amount of hours) do you just toss it because of breakdown? Or is it so dialed in that this never happens?

>> No.5835518

>>5835516
We usually do the cool and re-heat process for about 2-3 days before making a new batch. Once a new batch is made, it actually taste better after the first or second day because the seasonings meld together and sit. There is a point of freshness that if passed, we toss it. I and a few other employees know this point of freshness. Also, we cook chili in what we think the customers will buy it as/rate of customers coming in to buy chili. For our location we use 5-7 pounds of beef.

>> No.5835519

Give us a menu hack or a sandwich to create

>> No.5835522

Do you still show the Wendy's training videos to your new employees like this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXeFPpPJeI

>> No.5835523

>>5835519
The Barnyard. Ask for it, depending on the location, they'll usually make it for you. If not just tell them its a beef pattie with bacon, cheese, and a spicy chicken filet. It's a McGangBang variant/Wendy's style. It's pretty good.
>>5835522
Holy shit I haven't laughed so hard in a while, but definitely not.

>> No.5835527

>>5835518
Cool. Thanks.
So the "freshness" of a batch is rated by feel/taste, not by dates or numbers.
I like that.

>> No.5835529

The one time I was in the US ('97) I decided to go to a Burger King instead of Wendy's because of your ginger pippi longsocks logo. How many customers do you think you haven't made because of that ginger fag logo?

>> No.5835538

>>5835529
Pippi LongSTOCKINGS
Pippi LongKNICKERS
Pippi LongALUMINIUM
Pippi LongFAG
Pippi LongTAKEAWAY

>> No.5835544

>>5835529
fuck you I could climb up and fap on the sign

>> No.5837070

why do the cashiers always say "Welcome to My-Wendys"

>> No.5837123

Remember the breadsticks?

>> No.5839645

What's with all the buns being toasted except the cheapy ones?

>> No.5839646

Why the fuck does the spicy chicken sandwich taste like shit compared to like 7 years ago. Shit used to be the best thing from Wensys, not it's like trash

>> No.5839650

>>5835492
The sandwich makers are usually too busy to care.

>> No.5839657

>>5839646
You aren't a child anymore

>> No.5839658

i used to work in wendys for a year in high school. no i work at a michilen starred restaurant.

wendys is one of the only fast food chains that i feel comfortable eating from

>> No.5839666

>>5839646
in my experience (as a former wendys employee) it was all about how freshly fried the chicken was. if you eat it right after it's been out of the fryers it's great (i used to add swiss cheese, bacon, and BBQ because i'm a pleb). but if you eat one that's been sitting around for a few minutes it gets soggy and rubbery. They have a very short shelf life

>> No.5839680

>>5837070
Wendy's employee here. The "My Wendy's" thing is part of the "Wendy's culture" training videos. The idea is to make it more personal or show pride in the establishment

>> No.5839702

How much bigger is the 'single' burger patty compared to the value menu burger patties? Like rough %.

It feels tiny and barely bigger than the value burgers; not worth the price difference.

>> No.5839752 [DELETED] 

>204 Wood Ave, Easton, PA 18045
I'm on my way.

>> No.5839764

>>5839702
The value patties are 4oz, and the premium patties are 6oz. They are a little bit thicker and wider in every dimension.

>> No.5839868

>>5839752
"This particular Wendy's is gross. The lady who took our order while inside the restaurant dropped a stack of cups to the floor, picked them up and placed them back on the holder to be served... both the men's and women's rooms doors were pinned OPEN allowing air circulation through the restaurant (from a fast food bathroom). Buns were stale. As other reviews point out, avoid this Wendy's"

Wow, terrible reviews. But who the fuck takes time to review a wendy's anyways?

>> No.5839892

>>5839868
Old and bitchy people who have no friends.

>> No.5839894

PLEASE TELL ME THE RECIPE FOR THE ALL NATURAL LEMONADE ITS SOOO GOOD

>> No.5840004

>>5839894
My teenage semen :^)

>> No.5840005

Do you have a recipe list? Like list of ingredients for your food?

Or have you ever encountered like a "copykat" recipe?

>> No.5840014

>>5840005
Well the sandwiches all follow the same basic formula: toasted bun, mayo, ketchup, pickles, onions, tomato, lettuce, cheese, meat, cheese bun

It's al add or subtract based on the sandwich.

>> No.5840057

Not OP but I worked at a Wendy's in Ontario for 8 months.

The meat we put in the chili is the patties that are on the standby grill. Once they are dry/too old we throw have a heat well where we store potatoes and chili meat patties

before we made the chili, we'd put roughly 50 4oz patties or 70 2.5oz into a bag and mark it a week from then.

I'd always recommend spicy chicken because it is always the freshest, breaded chicken often went hours at a time without being replaced. hold times are supposed to be 1hr for chicken and 2 for potatoes, but we just judge by feel and looking.

>> No.5840060

>>5840014

Well I meant like along the lines of the copykat spicy chicken fillets.

I followed one recipe i found online and it was actually delicious. Didn't know if you knew of more.

>> No.5840079

>>5840057
i knew that forever.

Chili still delicious anyways

>> No.5840100

>>5835454
Your assistant manager is a bitch. The guy just spent a shit load of money at your restaurant and she wanted to call the cops because of an unlit blunt? Stupid cunt.

>> No.5840147

If anyone is wondering, Wendy's crew members get a 50% discount and managers get free meals. But the caveat is that you can only redeem it prior to or after your shift, or during breaks.

Anyway I want to know if any of resturantfags receive discounts.

>> No.5840185

>>5840147
>Anyway I want to know if any of resturantfags receive discounts.

I work at a local bagel shop, owned by a really chill guy that is a great boss AND makes a shitload of money because he knows how to run a business.

We get one free bagel sandwich per shift, but no one actually abides by that. Everyone just kind of munches on whatever they feel like, but no one takes horrible advantage of it because the owner is not a dick and we aren't dicks back to him.

I think there's a balance you have to strike as an owner; if you crack down on that shit then your staff will start to resent you and start to steal shit from you. Sure, you might catch them, but then you fire them and have to train someone knew AND you don't know how much shit they had been stealing from you the whole time. It's probably better to just deal with the small loss of your staff grazing on food and being content with their position rather than being really strict about it.

>> No.5840192

>>5840185
So you knowingly steal from your employer, but it's okay because he's a "chill guy"?

>> No.5840193

>>5840192
>So you knowingly steal from your employer

He's aware of it, sees us do it all the time because he will sometime work cook shifts with us. He'll come in, munch on a piece of bacon or some bagel chips or whatever and talk to us and we'll do the same thing. We also experiment a lot and use up food like that and he never seems to give a shit.

>> No.5840199

>>5840147
Chipotle here, we get a free meal everytime we work and 50% if we come in on an off day

>> No.5840201

>>5835454
Was he white and really tall?

>> No.5841187

>>5840147
the fancier restaurants i've worked at give 50% staff discounts. i work at a place now where we can basically eat whatever we want. the waitresses can get whatever they want to. management is really lax and we don't really do much in terms of inventory and tracking our products, so i don't think the owner knows how much money is going out the door.

i used to work for wendys too in high school. we got the 50% discount too, but i don't think i ever actually "bought" a meal there. the only person who was strict about the policy was the general manager, but there wasn't a whole lot she could do anyways

>> No.5841289

>payed
>pattie

No wonder you work at Wendy's.

>> No.5841874

>>5841289
Sorry you are too stupid to pluralize nouns than end with y.

>> No.5842017

How fucking come the drive thru is like a 3min wait, but the dining room is a 20-30min wait every time. I usually like to walk in and get it to go cause drive thrus are lazy as fuck, As an ex BK employee I understand speed of service requirements, but shit.

>>5835498
BK used to do the same thing when they had chili
>Either cook burgers fresh, or if there were extra "expired" burgers (See: 1hr old) microwave em and break em apart in a pestle and mortar kind of thing
>Add one can of pinto beans and one can of kidney beans
>Add a can of tomato paste, water, and a packet of chili seasoning
>Mix well

It ended up being the best shit on their menu, and was reasonably well made. Then again BK is shit now

>BK making all these shit new sandwiches (Dat gross extra long cheeseburger)
>Tried to start the pulled pork fad and failed
>Wendys starts using pulled pork
>Its a hit

>> No.5842034

>>5842017
I don't know where your Wendy's is, but mine has like 5 minutes max wait in dining room. Drive thru gets priority though, and the whole restaurant is built around pushing food out before people drive off.

>> No.5842047

I miss the salad bars! Any chance wendys will bring that back?

Also, I've had some fucking nasty chilli from non fast food places, that are way more expensive. It's not that bad considering it's a fast food joint.

The wendys on Broadway and Bleecker beats most 5 guys locations around me. But the food comes out actually resembles what it looks like in the ads instead of mashed garbage.

>> No.5842052

>>5842047
whoa, you're back. did your wife go to japan or something? how long you gonna stick around this time?

>> No.5842056

>>5842052
We went a long time ago but only 4 2 weeks. Just been busy, and this place has been a pain in the ass (not /ck/)

Fuck you OP I haven't had fast food in like 3 months and there's a wendys 10 min away. Why am I such a fat cunt brain?

>> No.5842080

>>5841874
You're literally too dumb to insult.

>> No.5842103

>>5842080
You're a penis

>> No.5842128

>>5840147
Worked at a self-serve fro-yo type of place. We were allowed a cup per shift but we usually snacked on toppings and ate yogurt out of the water cups

>> No.5842132

>>5835393
When will your store rid itself of the ugly ginger mascot/logo?

>> No.5842155

>>5835454
>a blunt of marijuana

>> No.5842169

>>5842155
I bet he shares marijuana needles too.

>> No.5842209

>>5842169
He probably murdered his mother on marijuana right before he went in.

>> No.5842256

>>5840147
Worked at a catering company, gota to take extras and bad looking muffins home

Worked at a burger joint, one free meal which consisted on pretty much anything within limits

>> No.5842280

>>5840147

I worked at 5 guys for 2 years.

Everyone is allowed a burger, fries and drink for free, every shift they work. You could get a hot dog too.

I must have done every burger and hot dog combination available during that time. Even if did off the menu stuff like making bacon cheese fries. Those were fucking glorious.

Never had to pay a dime.

>> No.5842320

>>5842132
Probably around the same time wendy herself dies

>> No.5842324

>>5840147

worked at burger king and it was the same. got 50% off on days we worked and like 10% off on our off days

>> No.5842356

>>5840147
Zaxby's fag here, we only get 25% discounts, but only if the managers feel like giving you the discount.
By the way, no breaks, the closest thing to a break we have is when no customers are ordering. Though, with all the churches and neighborhoods surrounding our location the stream of customers is endless.
You stand until the shift is over.

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5842563

>>5835493
...the fuck did I just watch?

>> No.5842572

Would YOU, personally and honestly, recommend Wendy's or any other fast-food restaurant to some person whose country lacks of this "eating culture"?

>> No.5842574

How did you manage to make your sandwiches 50% less disgusting than the competition's?

>> No.5842583

>>5842563
rich white people high on cocaine making a training video for their employees

>> No.5842866

>>5842572
Wendy's honestly is on the top tier of nationwide fast food chains. I would not tell you it will make world peace, but the burgers are pretty damn good. Of course it varies by location, but they are mostly consistent. The employees are treated very well, and in some cases better than in "higher class" kinds of restaurant. One thing that keeps good employees there is that every six months you get a review, and good work is rewarded with a raise relative to your personal merit.

>>5842574
Employees like to stick around a little longer than other chains.

>> No.5842881

If I tell you /ck/ sent me, will you give me free food?

>> No.5843284

>>5842881
Sure, just ask one of the employees this question: "Who are the Patriots?"

>> No.5843363

>>5835480
Can I get this Barnyard at any location? Or will I look like an idiot if I try to order one?

>> No.5843375

Can you PLEASE make them bring back the Bacon n Blue burger,
FUCKING PLEASE!

>> No.5843381

>>5842356
>no breaks

I'm pretty sure that's illegal
.

>> No.5843452

>>5843381
Actually, it's not. There's no federal statute saying that employers have to give employees breaks of any kind.

>> No.5843478

>>5835473
New Zealand represent.
Best beef in the world.

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5843491

>>5843452

>> No.5843495

>>5843491
>>5843381
>supporting the nanny state

>> No.5844008

>>5835393
hey OP,I used to work at wendys,i had to close grill.that shit sucked.5:30-1:30 scrubbing the shit out of grills using hot oil from the fryers,no bueno.
are you a shift lead,assistant manager,or store manager?

>> No.5844062

>>5835393
A REAL LIFE WENDY'S MANAGER?

NO WAY!