Here is an article about US Chain Wendy's coming to Australia care of news.com.au
PS Please come back to Australia Little Caesars! :(
——-UPDATE 28/02/2023——-
Fast food chain Wendy’s faces a clash with a classic Aussie brand - further to be yesterday's article
——-UPDATE 01/03/2023——-
Who cares ?
Yeah this was announced months ago anyway..
In-N-Out and Popeyes please!
Great. Don't like Murica fastfood so wish they would stop making chain food deals with the US.
Bring us another MOS burger anyday to another state PLEASE.
Only one MOS burger left on the Gold Coast and they’ve gotten rid of their Japanese burgers and sell only normal burgers now. They are no different to any chain now.
Oh no! 😭
Last time I checked on their website they had 3 locations, all in QLD though. And I'm not in QLD so was hoping they would open in other states too!!
I remember going to one when it first opened and you could tell corporate Japanese’s workers were running the store. It was great, withe the full Japanese MOS menu . I guess it didn’t work out and now they’ve dropped all the good burgers so no different to HJ or Maccas now.
Have you had Wendys in Japan? By far THE BEST fast food chain food I've ever eaten.
All food is better in Japan, even the food they think is crap. So is the service and cleanliness and often half the price
tried in the states, they all taste the same to me, most american fast food is just the same trash in different packaging / marketing
most american fast food is just the same trash
This is it. I hear their food standards are some of the worst in the developed world.
Also don't understand why "in n out" has so many requests/fans, it's the greasiest and soggiest of them all. Pretty sure they are the chain that serves chips with litres of sauce on top. Who the hell wants soggy fat and sugar infested chips? If you want sauce on your chips put it on just before eating or dip them as you eat.
Their food standards are still dramatically better than anything in Canada or south of the border. Or even Australia, for that matter.
Or even Australia, for that matter.
Really better than Australia? America has way more obese people than Australia.
I bet if you drove around in the US you would pass more fast food outlets than you would driving around in Australia. Also if you enter a supermarket in US I bet they have way more aisles of junk food and also way more varieties than in Australia. So the standard of what is considered food is worse over there.
@harshbdmmaster718: The US isn't even in the world's top-10 most obese countries and of those that represent the obesity numbers in the US, nearly 15% of that total number is purely illegal immigrants who sneak across the border to treat their self-caused obesity related health problems with fully funded healthcare programs and hospital access on the US Taxpayers dime.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836348/
https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
The rates of obesity are the only statistics tracked by race in America, where African American's & Hispanic's are more over-represented per capita than all types of crime.
Standards all across Oz have been declining. Mostly because everything getting bought by big business (often American) and squeezed the crap out of for more profit.
Competition doesn't help as execs don't actually care about anything besides short term bonuses from short term profits. And often with global models, the 1% of revenue coming from Aust is irrelevant.
You are over estimating the thought processes of junk food disposal units , I mean customers.
Q> "Who the hell wants soggy fat and sugar infested chips?"
A> The very demograph they aim the product and adverts at.
Obesity epidemic aint no accident. It's a future resource in the same way dinosaurs were..
; )
It's a future resource in the same way dinosaurs were..
Why not make it a "now" resource by using liposuction? 😂
Australia is more of american colonization rather than british anyway.
Word
I think the young ppl say ‘Facts’ not ‘Word’ nowadays.
Facts.
Word
5400Kj… well then!
I'd far prefer Fuddruckers (https://www.fuddruckers.com/) - best burgers I had living in San Fran 20 years ago. Wendy's was (is?) cr@p.
I'll stick to Frangos thanks.
We have good beef in aussieland but In and Out won't come permanently.
..That good beef isn't finding its way to Colesworth , that's for sure
Of course not. They buy the cheapest they can get, and it is at best very average. Most of our quality beef goes to the export market, you can also find some at the better butchers shops.
Yep. Farmers markets and butchers, for meat.
Sub standard Colesworth 'meat' (special bonus to Coles for their leather products ) or produce is another self inflicted bed consumers happily lie in. Consumers lose and so do producers when we choose to reward this duopoly marketing model.
We definitely need Little Caesars! We have nothing equivalent of it. I wish some chain senses a market opportunity there.
And even more importantly, we need Chipotle please!!!!!
It's a shame their owner took off back in to the USA with all the cash.
Just pure business
It's like a pizza joint right?
Unlimited pizza buffet for a cheap price too!
buffets aren't cheap in aus
actually AYCE korean friend chicken is decent for $25
I miss it, haven't been able to find anything that matches that style.
This will go the same way of the Wendy's in Japan. I remember when they closed I think it was circa 2010 the locals were queuing up for the last opportunity. This unfortunately will be hampered the same way other US chains have tried to enter the Aussie market such as Carl's Jnr and Taco Bell, Inferior product higher price.
I wonder what has happened to the Aussie Wendy's trademark ,ie the hotdog and ice cream and milkshake chain have they packed it in. I don't get out to shopping malls anymore
Is Wendy's First Kitchen quite different to how the original Wendy's was in Japan?
Higher price is the main issue. If they offered the equivalent/ comparable prices to those of the US, they all would have fair chances to succeed here. They can't sell the same crap and expect to charge more than double the price in Australia.
Australian Labor and real estate and many other costs are higher here, add in much stricter food safety regs, taxes etc. You can't expect them to come here and charge the same prices as in the US while having much higher expenses. Personally I am happy if they stay away, far better options than the shit the US fastfood chains dish up.
Here they all want to operate through 3rd parties so there are two, maybe three sets of management costs and profit expectations. Even reading these Wendy's articles, they don't want to operate here, they want to sell franchises and get money for nothing. Way too many middlemen trying to skim some margin in an industry that doesn't need middlemen.
If they could get labour at the same price as USA then it might be same but they cant so people will br disappointed
I dont see it doing well as it's not that differentiated from HJ
Innovation only exists in USA
Also the fact that "Wendy's" is included in this video should tell you enough that it's bad news.
https://youtu.be/psLm_Uwh3oc
Who needs more of this seppo rubbish polluting our shores? Local fish ‘n’ chips shop sinks the lot.
It's not even in the planning stage. See you again in 5 years.
Wasn't impressed by it in the US.
White Castle please.
Wouldn't there be a name-confliction with the already existing Wendy's (now called Wendy's Milkbar - I was today years old when I learned this) that has been around since 1979
Is this going to be another Hungry Jacks / Burger King thing?
Except the US chain has held the trademark for Wendy's since 1975….
https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/mobile/view/292…
Is it going to be the cheap fast food like in US or the same crap quality but premium prices like Taco Bell.
Cold tasteless taco bell every single time
Squirting orange liquid cheese on corn chips.
Pass.
It just makes sense that now we have Pearl Harbour 2 in Darwin we import the lunch box for the canon fodder.
I hope this Wendy's muck is high in iodine. One things for sure, all that will be imported is the badge. The service,attitude and ingredients are worlds apart. The only way they will be able to fill the job vacancies is import the staff too.
Great. Even less housing.
The (profanity) gangster chain is in-and-out
Open IHop here
Buy a stack of pre-cooked, frozen, and reheated 'hotcakes' from Maccas, and bring your own artificially flavoured sauces and margarine or spray cream, basically that's IHOP.
However, if you want great, freshly cooked pancakes made with real eggs, butter, and quality flour, then topped with butter or fresh cream and pure maple syrup, make them at home or find a good local pancake kitchen or crêperie.
Ihop makes their pancakes from scratch. Iirc, they are pretty good with breakfasts.
Every franchise has some bad apples, maybe you just got unlucky.
https://usafoods.com.au/products/louisiana-crispy-seasoned-c…
Get some of this stuff, some chicken and you won't need that fast food shit anymore.
DIY, the ozbargain way!
Even better still, work out recipe.
Wendy’s isn’t great, but I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t enjoy the occasional Baconnator.
They won't last. The Australian fast food market has changed and we are different to the US.
Education levels are higher here and chains like Wendy's cater to poor hick Americans, whereas we prefer 'fast casual' food like Grilled, Rayhays, Guzman y Gomez and most people have the income to afford it.
I would take anything over Rashays thanks..
Rashays are a joke fine dining prices for mediocre food
Oh there'll be more poor hick Australians coming down the pipeline soon enough. Electricity, rent, food, etc up and up. And I'm seeing more articles than ever about people living in tents and cars and cops not bothering to move people on anymore because their spot only gets taken by someone else anyway. It's not likely they're going to have a great education, especially with the anti-science woke agendas in Australian curriculum.
Yep, 'paying to breed' is coming(no pun intended) to a town /suburb, near you.
What could possibly go wrong?
Bring back New York Fries
Its going to be great when they are on the 3 delivery platforms and I'm going to be able to get huge %'s off triple stacked :)
Love their baked potato + chili, everything else pretty average
Bring back Sizzlers with the quality that Japan has
Also bring back all you can eat KFC with premium buffet and drinks package
Sizzler started in 85 as the affordable Aussie steak + AYCE sides and salad place, when buffet dining was popular here. The last one closed in 2020, while there are still over a hundred in the USA — centre of the 'low-quality AYCE dining' universe.
Unless something changes drastically (cost of business or appetite for a more expensive buffet) there's no chance it would relaunch here, despite the huge success overseas.
At least every major city here has at least one hotel with a buffet, if you can afford the high price, but your username suggests otherwise.
I'm poor not broke
wait until they see how much labour is going to cost .. 🤣
They'll bring in all the employees from China that work 16 hour days at Foxconn.
Yes, that's the Yankee way. The US exploiting China (workers) while it tries not to make the first move in global war, because they would be obliterated in the first 48 hours.
The power of capitalism is all encompassing and trumps all else (no pun intended).
Wasn't America built on 3 tranches of slavery ?
Why do we need these fat inducing American companies here, and their food is really not that good.
Because despite what the public think , so much of our a*rse is in the hands of multi-nationals. USA (major policy influencer) ,China, and Afrikaans are cleaning up.
As for American fast food, they care about our wallets not our colons. The buckling health system can deal with that.
Didnt know they had left but rarely get to the city. Use to like their chocalate shake that had white & milk chocalate flakes.
I know it's NewsCorpse (eff the Herald Sun etc) but the second linked article explains a major issue.
There's the Aussie Wendy's and the Yank one.
Most of the Wendy stores have closed now in SA, brand is barely hanging on in poor social-economic areas.
From what i understand, they sold the franchise to Singapore investment group or something like 10 years ago and raised the franchise cut, they got a good deal selling it as the OTR brand signed an agreement to add like 30 stores in next few years. OTR sued them and a bunch of franchises closed, and some just rebranded. OTR made their own clone called Moes.
“Peter Pan’s favourite place to eat out” is coming to Australia ?
Yes, a lot of people don't realise that the name Wendy first appeared as a name in the book Peter Pan.
Just had a quick look at their US menu, it doesn't seem like there's anything special on it to differentiate it from McDonald's or Hungry Jacks. I don't see any reason to visit them over either of our big burger chains, let alone a smaller one like MOS, or something like KFC for a chicken burger. I don't like their chances here unless their Australian menu is more innovative.
Then there's obviously really good "business" reasons to come here. They won't be the first (or last) to milk our weak taxes on billionaires and multinationals. We are ripe for the picking it seems. They just keep coming.
I bet they start on QLD 1st.
Be surprised if it wasn't Darwin. How many thousands of US troops there by the time they get here? Braai would need to be on their QLD and WA menu to cater for the local demographs
Wendy’s burger chain, with its logo of a red-haired girl with pigtails, is famed for its square beef patties and “Frosty” dessert.
Square patties!
Fast food chain Wendy’s faces a clash with a classic Aussie brand - further to be yesterday's article
So will it do what it actually has to do to survive and undercut McDonald's prices with the same quality, or will it plod along like Carl Jr with sky high prices and only average food quality?
My guess is the latter. Aussies seem to accept 2nd rate slop like the aussie carls jr from as the norm these days and i cant see that charging
more junks food, don't really care, I haven't eaten Macca or dominos or kfc for like three years
You be surprised how many fat white families go through the drive through buying family meals like cows
Harsh on the cows. Especially seeing as they form the burger(we think)
Wonder if they’ll do the US drink sizes. I went there once to try it, went with a large and I think it was 1.2L.
Food was rubbish, all about volume which won’t well work here. Five guys here is at least what I remember from Vancouver (although go to Edmonton and I swear the patties are twice as big). It just costs twice as much.
It's good to know when my shares tank I'll have a Wendy's dumpster to work behind
@tonka: Sounds like you need to get out a bit.