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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Naming rights aside, I doubt another shitty burger chain will see success in Aus. If you want a shitty burger, we got that covered in almost every town and suburb. Aussie typically want higher quality fast food.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm waiting for the inevitable Carl's Jr implosion, no way those restaurants are sustainable businesses.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't even need to look at Carl's Jr. Just look at taco Bell I've walked past it and am convinced it's used as either money laundering or a tax write off. There's never anyone there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nobody is in there because the food is beyond terrible. You don't get cheese for your taco, you get lettuce that has a dusting of cheese in it. It's dumb as hell.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You're kind of not wrong. Collins Foods have just written of a $36.7 million impairment against the Taco Bell business, with Taco Bell stores posting a same-store sales decline of 4.8 per cent for the year.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/taco-bell-troubles-offset-kfc-boost-for-fast-food-operator-20230627-p5djpr.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bloody horrible

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had a carls jr burger the other day, and it was the driest burger patty I have ever had.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wendy's in the US is actually one of the better day did restaurants. Still only about comparable to Australian KFC at best.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wendy's in Canada is excellent. Dave's Single and Double are the best fast food cheeseburgers IMO

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I tried a baconator once 15+ years ago in the US. It was advertised as having 10 rashers of bacon on it! I had to know for myself. I obviously bought fries and their signature Frosty (thickshake) too to get the full experience.

I learnt three things that day:

  1. Americans call the streaky bacon bit a rasher. So they're about 3cm by 10cm, so not as hedonistic as imagined.
  2. a manufactured food that is 1/3 fat has a surprising amount of structural integrity.
  3. people dip their fries in their thickshakes.

I only ate salad for days afterwards. We really don't need Wendy's or even just another shit-tier burger place like them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People who do number 3 should be rounded up and executed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ohh man you're missing out on a great taste experience, the saltiness the chips pairs well with the sweet and creamy flavour of a milkshake, dipping chips in soft serve icecream is a great treat as well, especially if you get some of that fudge syrup.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've tried it and it's nasty!

Naaaaasty!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Boooooo BOOOOOO!!!

Your opinion is wrong and you should feel bad for having it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, each to their own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

READY... AIM.. FIREEEEE!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Missing out, dude. Back in my youth I used to stick fries in my caramel sundae at maccas. Delissssh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A number three is diarrhoea isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Sorry Australia. Just another shitty fast food place.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Australia is already catching up to America on obesity rates. But fuck it let's just go full America on this shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Come to Brisbane and you'll see we are much obesier than America

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to trying my first Hungry Wendy's here in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean isn't there already wendys in Australia?

Im sure there was a wendys in the Northern Territory when i was a kid

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah it's a hotdog and ice cream chain. I wonder if they'll have to change the name similar to Hungry Jacks because Burger King was already a restaurant when they came over here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An, i always thought they were the same thing.

There's no longer a wendys in the Northern Territory so maybe they have gone under. If that's the case I'm sure wendys US would be able to buy name rights and go with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah there's one in the shopping centre where I live in Victoria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Theres still one in geelong (victoria)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I never knew Wendy's (the hotdog one) was Australian until now. I just always assumed that was the US Wendy's.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do we get a vote, before they come over?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol - it’d be pretty uncharacteristic

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

You can vote with your wallet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this mean the Australian Wendy's stores have all gone? Our local one died in the pandemic, but I hadn't heard the whole company went under.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My guess is they came to an agreement that their product offering is different enough that they can trade under the same name?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/27/fast-food-chain-wendys-plans-roll-out-in-australia-but-potential-naming-clash-looms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All the Americans are like "Wendys taste like shit" and my immediate snap back is "That's because America has terrible food standards".

Like yeah you wont die if you eat the food but you don't know if its bacon or 1-20 dead rats flat packed together. I hope they open one in Perth and its open at 2am every day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Goddamn rangas are taking over 😡

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do like me a Wendy's burger