Wendys...

[2011Supercab]

With in a 1/2 mile of my house we have
McDonalds
Wendy's
Dairy Queen
Burger King
Jack In The Box
Taco Bell
Taco Time

Alfy's Pizza
Domino's Pizza
Papa Johns Pizza
Papa Murphy's Pizza - take and bake
3 teriyaki places

IHOP - International House of Pancakes
2 Mexican Restaurants
2 Family style restaurants
1 steak/seafood restaurant

and they are all busy

When I moved here in 86, we only had McDonalds and 1 cafe style restaurant and 1 stop light

Now we have 2 stop lights and 6 roundabouts

 

[Blmpkn]

If Wendy's is going under it's because this BABE isn't doing their commercials anymore..

Bad move Wendy's. Bad fkng move.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I eat inside of them probably 90% of the time.

Its just eaiser and more comfortable. Its also eaiser to go back up and have them correct your order


Id be really pissed to see wendys go totally under. Besides culvers they are my favorite. The burgers are by far the best of the big 3 (mcds, burger king, wendys)

I will say of the 3 that closed here last week 2 of them i went to somewhat often and they were kinda crappy compared to other ones. One of them was constantly out of french fries...which made no sense.

Culver's is awesome, I only go there for their fish though. The only thing better there than their cod is their walleye during lent.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

We have a lot of duplicates around here, all within a couple miles. McDonalds, Wendy’s, BK, Taco Bell and Arby’s all have 2-3 locations. They all seem to get a reasonable amount of business, but not much from me. Even back when I drove a lot and had to grab food on the road I didn’t do much fast food. I had a list of restaurants and bars located along my route that I could call in an order and pick it up on the fly. I was also comfortable enough to cruise the highway and eat a steak salad.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Culver's is awesome, I only go there for their fish though. The only thing better there than their cod is their walleye during lent.

Ive never had their fish. I usually just get a burger and fries.

Infact any restaraunt i go to i always get the same thing lol.

 

[Shran]

We had three Wendy's in town and one closed. I don't mind their food, I'll go there any day over Burger King or Sonic...those two are terrible in every location. We've been losing Pizza Hut and KFC... I think we had like 4 or 5 Pizza Huts at one point and now we're down to 2 and they're not dine-in. Only one KFC left out of four semi-local ones. We gained Domino's, Pizza Ranch, Popeye's and Marco's Pizza though.

These are my favorites, in no particular order:
Hardee's
Chick-fil-A
Culvers
Jersey Mike's
Taco John's
Slim Chickens

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I feel cheated seeing several people mentioning the same chain fast food places and I’ve never heard of them… Culvers Is one of them.

There is Chick-Fil-A around, but not super local. Same goes for Hardee’s. We just got a Popeyes but I haven’t been there yet. We also have KFC, Jersey Mikes, Subway, Firehouse Subs, and 5-guys around.

 

[Brain75]

Don't feel bad, I have found out there is a TON of stuff that just flat does not exist west of the mississippi.... I'm sure your regional differences show up too.
Last time I saw a Hardees was 1991.... The merger with Carl Jr made all of em out here switch to Carl Jr name, I didn't even think they existed anymore till the modern digital age and I found out they weren't dead.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Don't feel bad, I have found out there is a TON of stuff that just flat does not exist west of the mississippi.... I'm sure your regional differences show up too.
Last time I saw a Hardees was 1991.... The merger with Carl Jr made all of em out here switch to Carl Jr name, I didn't even think they existed anymore till the modern digital age and I found out they weren't dead.

I thought Hardee’s was dead after the Carl Jr merger. Never saw a Carl Jr around here though. Most Hardee’s disappeared after the merger, then I found a lone hold-out. Ate there a few times but it seemed typical fast food grease burger. They just put in a new Loves truck stop out by Lisa and there’s two restaurants with it, a Subway and a Hardee’s. I’ve ate there a couple times and it’s better than I remember but still not impressive.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

There are still a couple hardees in Omaha. Ours turned into a BK many moons ago.

I still love the Frisco burger. BK had a really good version but of course killed it.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

We used to have quite a few hardees around. Now i know of one thats in the loves truck stop in angola indiana.

In my little town all we got is subway and mcds. I live roughly 20 min either East or West of bit larger towns. Hillsdale (to the west) has the usual BK, Mcds, subway, DQ, TAco bell, arbys and the wendys that just closed.

Adrian to the east has everything mentioned above except one of the wendys closed and no DQ. They just got a jersey mikes and i love that place. I had never been untill that opened. They do have a chipolte but thats just overpriced taco bell IMO. Oh and adrian does have a KFC that hillsdale dont,,a culvers, and a rallys that is a joke.

Chic fil a is amazing but the closest one i have is in sylvania oh about 45 min away. I never had that either untill a year ago.

I wish my actual town had something besides mcds and subway. But i heard a rumor the only reason we got those is because the owners signed a non compete claus with the town and nothing else can come in within city limits....but id love a DQ or wendys to get plopped just outside of them.

 

[John97]

We have three here in town and all do a good business. I am not a frequent patron but my wife goes there sometimes during her workday.

We have enough tourists passing through and snowbirds along with the static population. Heck, our Red Lobster didn't even close when they went through their bankruptcy but the one to the south of us did.

There's no shortage of restaurants in general around here. In terms of fast food, there are multiple McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Arby's, and Taco Bell locations. We have a Chick-fil-a, but it's the only one in the entire county. It's always packed. But, I will say that even when the double-lane drive-thru is 20 cars deep, they do get you through quicker than expected.

Hardee's is the closest fast food place to my house. We also have Zaxby's, PDQ, Huey Magoo's, Culver's, Long John Silver's, Captain D's, Five Guys, Dairy Queen, and two Checkers locations. Both of the Checkers are closed, but it's apparently temporary for an ownership change. The word is that the franchisee is getting out and someone else is taking over. There's also a Popeye's but I won't go there, as they have frequently been cited by the board of health. Same goes for the Steak and Shake, but they changed ownership. I'm hearing good things, but I'll give it time for some positive health department inspections before we ever consider going back there.

We've got the chain sandwich shops - Subway, Firehouse, and Jersey Mike's. We have the chain pizza joints - Pizza Hut, Domino's, Little Caesar's, Papa John's, Hungry Howie's, and Marco's. We have the chain steakhouses - Outback, Longhorn, and Texas Roadhouse. We've got Carrabba's, Ruby Tuesday and Applebee's along with IHOP, Denny's, and Cracker Barrel. We have a couple regional restaurant/sports bar chains with locations here as well. An Olive Garden and a Miller's Ale house are currently under construction.

I've lost count of how many independent pizza joints and Chinese food places we have. On top of all that, there are a ton of independent sit-down restaurants.

During snowbird season, we don't even bother trying to go out to dinner unless it's late. The lines and wait times are too long. My wife will often do a dinner and a movie date night. Dinner is usually at the Texas Roadhouse which shares a parking lot with the movie theater. In the summer, we'll do dinner first and then walk across to the movie theater. Until the snowbirds leave, we do the movie first and then have dinner later at 8 or 9 PM.

 

[Snoranger]

I’ll ask my nephew , he works for Wendy’s.

I have 3 pizza places within 1 mile of my house, on my street. One of them was named top 10 in the state by some random idiot influencer. If I were to list all the places around here, we’d run out of bandwidth.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I’ll ask my nephew , he works for Wendy’s.

I have 3 pizza places within 1 mile of my house, on my street. One of them was named top 10 in the state by some random idiot influencer. If I were to list all the places around here, we’d run out of bandwidth.

I was trying to limit my part in the discussion to fast food places for pretty much the same reason. I'm not in a city and the one I'm closest to is relatively small, but there's about a million places to grab food within 30 minutes around here and that number more than doubles at 45-60 minutes away because you start hitting Pittsburgh at that point.

 

[Snoranger]

I was trying to limit my part in the discussion to fast food places for pretty much the same reason. I'm not in a city and the one I'm closest to is relatively small, but there's about a million places to grab food within 30 minutes around here and that number more than doubles at 45-60 minutes away because you start hitting Pittsburgh at that point.

30 minutes… If I’m driving 30+ minutes it’s not to get fast food. I’ve got 20-30 places under 15 minutes away. But I live in an overcrowded part of an overcrowded state.