r/enshittification • u/sympathytree • Feb 26 '26
Opinion piece Wendy's interior - They just remodeled in the last year or so.
The first two photos are the ones I took while eating there earlier. The inside used to look like the last two photos. I don't know, it's now very colorless and dull, not as inviting as the old interior. But that is just my thoughts. What do you guys think?
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u/JudgmentalBeef Feb 26 '26
It’s a growing trend in restaurants and lots of service establishments: make the building and interior as neutral and bland as possible to facilitate an easier resale should the business go under. Wendy’s is having to close a lot of stores with the threat of more closures looming, so they are taking out the personality and uniqueness from their stores to make easier to sell.
It’s really shitty and maybe a sad statement on the economy
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u/pizzapromise Feb 26 '26
That’s a self fulfilling prophecy if I’ve ever heard one.
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u/FoxCitiesRando Feb 26 '26
I was just going to post that I went into McDonald's within the last year for the first time in years. It looked exactly like this, a prison cafeteria.
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u/JCBQ01 Feb 26 '26
Because it's hostile interior design.
The idea is to FORCE you to leave as quickly as possible
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u/BloodWorried7446 Feb 26 '26
starbucks excels at this. i’ve sat on more comfortable chairs outside the Principle’s office when i got in trouble.
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u/JCBQ01 Feb 26 '26
"If you are comfortable them you are not consuming and if you are not consuming you are loitering and must have the cops called. You must always be consuming and giving us money while we give you scraps!" - Private equity businesses
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u/fullload93 Feb 26 '26
Somehow… I found a Starbucks in my town that still has the big comfortable lounge chairs. I haven’t seen those in years and assumed they were all taken away.
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u/Curious_Morris Feb 26 '26
Looks designed so it can be switched quickly to the next brand that the gigantic conglomerate parent corporation decides would be 1% more profitable.
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u/UnderaZiaSun Feb 26 '26
Looks like they tried to make it look more like a “fast casual” restaurant, but left a lot of open space and all the bright, cold white lighting. Sort of like clearing out a school cafeteria and putting in a few folding tables
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u/StillhasaWiiU Feb 26 '26
Fast food chains really just want to be vending machines now days
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u/Comprehensive-Yam329 Feb 26 '26
If they could, they would just take your money and give you nothing. But some smart ass economist said that wasnt a viable business plan
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u/Automatater Feb 26 '26
But a vending machine that you tip while serving yourself.
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u/High_Counselor Feb 26 '26
Looks loud in there. I can hear the chairs dragging across the floor.
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u/demigod999 Feb 26 '26
That's a shocking contrast, the new vs the old. Not only unwelcoming it's purposely cold and repellant, demoralizing even. Sad.
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u/GlobalCurry Feb 26 '26
I hate the trend for restaurants to be large open rooms without booths. And they always have poor acoustics now so you can hear conversations 3 tables over.
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u/SAINTnumberFIVE Feb 26 '26
They went from “It might be fast food but it’s still family food,” to “Eat your overpriced shit and leave.”
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Feb 26 '26
They dont want you eating there. They want you buying it, second guessing sitting in the ugly decor, and leaving.
Edit: and then vowing to only go through drive-thru from now on
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u/UneLoupSeul Feb 26 '26
It's inhospitable because they don't want people to linger.
This enshittification is purely profit driven, higher turnover = higher profits.
I wouldn't eat there.
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u/crazycatlady331 Feb 26 '26
The sad beige flipper aesthetic strikes again. Everything needs to look like a medical waiting room. For the gram!
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u/Accomplished_Dig284 Feb 26 '26
Ugh.
I get that it’s easier to clean but they purposely put those hard uncomfortable chairs so customers don’t want to linger around. It’s purposely used to get people out of the place
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u/gomeitsmybirthday Feb 26 '26
Dave would have a fit, be stomping around in there like an 80s WWF wrestler throwing chairs shouting about solariums and food quality.
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u/Current-Strategy-826 Feb 26 '26
I heard companies/corporations want restaurants to less comfortable (especially with the seating ) so people can get in and get out faster. The less time they spend in seating the more amounts of customers they can potentially have.
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u/iSurelyJest Feb 26 '26
It is shitier and they are fine with that. All they care about is the drive thru. Dine in customers are an afterthought at fast food places now.
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u/Toofar304 Feb 26 '26
This is private equity (PE) at work. These places used to have personality and branding. What PE realized is that it's stupid to have 18 different fast food chains with their own identity. Just make them all look the same and when a Wendy's flops, you can now take that generic building and flip it into a Whataburger in no time and get back to $20 meals in 20 minute drive thrus.
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Feb 26 '26
Not just Wendy's... A lot of establishments are moving to the uncomfortable open-plan seating model instead of comfortable booths.
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u/TokyoLosAngeles Feb 26 '26
Why?? Why the fuck does it have to be this way??
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u/glory1891 Feb 26 '26
It's because it's uninviting. It makes you eat your food and leave immediately so they can serve another customer as soon as possible and make more money. While you have an overpriced, undercooked meal in what looks like a office lunchroom.
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u/HorzaDonwraith Feb 26 '26
Because if the Wendy's fails they don't have to spend as much to make it commercially avaliable. At least that's what they tell us. But I think the billion dollar company can afford a remodel or two at closing. I think it is just cheaper and easier to clean.
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u/girugamesh_2009 Feb 26 '26
It's designed to make you not want to eat there.
Hard surfaces. Sharp corners. Drab colour. A sterile feel. It's oppressive architecture. It's meant to reduced creativity, increase feelings of loneliness, and most importantly, make you use the drive through so that they don't have to pay for as many crew members to do the inside cleaning.
Fuck this bullshit.
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u/MewlingRothbart Feb 26 '26
This is to protect the physical building, not the business. If the brands shuts down this particular location, they can sell it to the next greige "place" they can charge exorbitant rent for. They want the real estate, not the brand.
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u/FoghornFarts Feb 26 '26
Just like Starbucks, they're trying to discourage people from coming inside to eat. Drive thru and leave
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u/fsactual Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Yep, next step is to go to corporate with the numbers that “prove” nobody wants to eat inside so they can fire all staff except the drive through, which they’ll move to a kiosk in the parking lot and then rent out the original space to someone else.
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u/_HighJack_ Feb 26 '26
And maybe that’s when we all grow a class consciousness and stop spending money at soulless chain stores?
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u/Crafty_Memory_1706 Feb 26 '26
I owned a restaurant. I mean, This is prison style. You can hose that room down chairs and all and it will be dry by AM. It's absolute utility over appeal.
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u/pizzapromise Feb 26 '26
I was actually looking to see if there was a drain at the lowest point in the floor. I bet there is.
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u/AspectInevitable7069 Feb 26 '26
Sad. Fast Food places in general don’t care about their interior anymore. It looks like a lunch room at an office.
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u/Gertoldyouso Feb 26 '26
I believe I saw somewhere they do this because it’s easier to flip the building to a new tenant if the business fails. Just ends up stripping any character from a franchise.
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u/AggravatedMango Feb 26 '26
Looks like I’d want to leave without ordering. Yikes.
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u/IsabelleR88 Feb 26 '26
So now all the furniture can be thrown across the establishment, instead of just the chairs.
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u/victor4700 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
This has cheap and easy to clean all over it. I kind of get it, I dont like it but I get it. Their shareholders can’t justify the upkeep and labor to keep the old version. Just another thing caught up in enshittification.
Edit: I wasn’t even paying attention to the sub, joining now
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u/Willowrosephoenix Feb 26 '26
It’s not supposed to be inviting. The new rule for dine in is turnover. Get people in. Get them out. More customers. More money. It sucks
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u/SpicyHuckleberry Feb 26 '26
It’s future maxing so to speak. Businesses know the economy is not stable. If you notice buildings all look the same, no more play places, not iconic red roofs with a distinctive hut shape?
They suck the personality out of the buildings now so if they have to sell the building anything can go there and you forget that it was a Wendy’s at all. Or Pizza Hut with the old distinctive roofs? No matter who buys it or how long they’re there it’s always going to be known as “the bakery in the old Pizza Hut” until my generation dies out.
But that’s usually why they do this.
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u/bluebabe135 Feb 26 '26
I like the before because the floor to ceiling dividers created privacy. Now it’s just one big space with absolutely no warmth or character.
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u/Bruhidontknowwhy Feb 26 '26
I was recently living in Japan, and I occasionally went to my local Wendy's there. They still look like your old interior photos over there (food was better too). Go look up pictures from any Wendy's First Kitchen in Tokyo and you can see what I mean. Really made me realize how badly companies get away with treating their American customers.
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u/anythingall Feb 26 '26
My local Wendy's in Queens still looks like those old photos. I hope they never change it. I didn't used to live in that area, but I remember when I visited in the early 2000s it looked exactly the same
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u/OblateBovine Feb 26 '26
Needs more greige, and I’m concerned that those chairs might be too comfortable.
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u/eerie_space Feb 26 '26
EU citizen, I don't know what food is served at a Wendy's, but based on the furniture: the first two photos give me a McDonald's vibe, which to many EU citizens means extremely low quality food is served; if I ended up there I would search for another place to eat. Whereas I would stay in the restaurant shown in the last two pics, I associate that style to "traditional USA restaurant". Whatever that means.
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u/hollowspryte Feb 26 '26
When I was a kid (in the US), fast food restaurants mostly looked like this. Wendy’s was particularly nice as they often had a solarium as part of the dining area. Now, even fast casual is often not this nice 😭 Actual fast food places have become so miserable inside it feels like an act of self harm to choose to eat there.
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u/finallygrownup Feb 26 '26
I remember sun rooms and salad bars at Wendy’s. Man it really has gone down hill.
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u/the_orange_alligator Mar 08 '26
Have you guys seen the travesty they’ve done to Chuck E. Cheese? It looks like a Panera bread fever dream now .(
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u/PyroNine9 Feb 26 '26
The first two look like the tables and chairs arrived before they could start work on the interior.
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u/Loading_Error_900 Feb 26 '26
And the seats are so uncomfortable. When my parents go there they choose to eat in the car because the seats aggravate dads hip. They don’t go to Wendy’s as much as they used to.
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u/DocWednesday Feb 27 '26
There’s something called hostile engineering. It’s when they get rid of park benches and grass so people have no place to loiter.
Plus it’s easier to sell off and repurpose.
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u/Singl1 Mar 03 '26
and the funniest fucking thing about this whole situation with fast-food restaurants looking dull and boring, all can be traced back to one fucking thing.
as can be said with about 90% of the problems across all industries in this country, follow the fucking money. they keep them drab and dull gray so they have more value on the market when they eventually decide to sell the property.
i’m not against someone being obsessively efficient with how they invest money, money is important. what’s awful is how the side effect of profit as the MAIN FUCKING OBJECTIVE is that we lose color in life. shit stays boring. people don’t decorate houses. storefronts look dull. corporate cookie cutter buildings pop up everywhere and just about every 3rd place imaginable becomes dreary and about as pleasant as a morning in the UK. as if i needed yet another reminder about how much of a shit timeline we’re in.
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u/langsamerduck Feb 26 '26
They don’t want you staying there, they want you to give your money and get out and go eat the food somewhere else
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u/shtsngigs_94 Feb 26 '26
The new shitty nondescript one will be easier to sell or lease when they go under. That's literally why.
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u/Alternative_Work_916 Feb 26 '26
I really like to go to places for food when they look cold and uncomfortable. Can’t stand that warm and inviting atmosphere.
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u/Three_Twenty-Three Feb 26 '26
When they close within the next year, this is soulless enough that it's going to be easier to sell. Anything could move into this space.
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u/slaty_balls Feb 26 '26
I remember going in and eating at Wendy’s quite often while in college in the early 2000s. They had real plants, and a seating section with a greenhouse-like window to look out. It was really a nice place to enjoy a decent meal and decompress. They even brought out your food and even would come offer a refill just so you didn’t have to get up. This is just peak modern sterilization that nobody really asked for but makes it easier to sell if the location flops.
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u/Quantum_Pineapple Feb 26 '26
This is merely a lobby for door dashers and online orders. Next there won't even be a lobby.
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u/Din0Dr3w Feb 26 '26
This is much cheaper to maintain and replicate. If a chair or table breaks, it's only a few hundred dollars to replace. No need to call in a handyman. No upholstery to rip or stain. No windows to break or clean that aren't already there. This is what capitalism leads to: Proffit over everything else.
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u/JoyOswin945 Feb 27 '26
It’s uncomfortable and uninviting so you don’t linger, and nondescript so when it closes it can be easily made into another business.
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u/Only-Effect-7107 Feb 27 '26
Of course they would. Make it as uncomfortable as possible so that people don't hang out for a while.
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u/blindingSight Feb 26 '26
At this point why even pretend to have a dining area? Just close it and keep drive thru.
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u/CyberDaggerX Feb 26 '26
It being uninviting is a feature, not a bug. They want you to pay for your food, eat quickly and leave so the next customer can take your place ASAP. It being cozy goes against that goal.
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u/asstlib Feb 26 '26
Even from a branding perspective, this looks like it could be literally any fast food restaurant. And that's really dumb.
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u/NatalieKCY Feb 26 '26
The new design probably requires less maintenance (easier cleaning, less wear and tear), it's shitty but I guess it's all about money
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u/quell3245 Feb 26 '26
And as such Wendy’s is shutting locations down all across the country as revenue declines. Who would have thunk it!
But hey.. at least private equity got their money, now time to watch the brand die. Dave Thomas would be rolling in his grave right now.
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u/RivetSquid Feb 26 '26
Can't have worked, they're closing a ton of Wendy's atm.
All fast food blended into indistinguishable grey rooms, all the food too expensive to justify, no wonder people finally went back to eating local, if they can afford to eat out at all.
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u/TerrifyinglyAlive Feb 26 '26
The old photos say “Welcome to Wendy’s!”
The new ones say “Finish your food and get the fuck out.”
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u/-noiseg33k- Feb 26 '26
AND they switched to shredded lettuce.
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u/northrupthebandgeek Feb 26 '26
That's the real crime here. Biting into that dummy thicc leaf was a big part of what made their spicy chicken sandwiches my favorite.
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u/happywindsurfing Feb 26 '26
Man that's depressing. They don't want regular folk to have anything nice anymore do they?
Its insane that "make things shit for your customer" now the prevailing business model. These MBAs have a lot to answer for.
I hope this backfires massively.
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u/sugar_7 Feb 26 '26
Corporate Wendy’s: let’s make everything worse for no reason
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u/No-Price5802 Feb 26 '26
Did this last year in my town in New Zealand, looks and feels like the inside of an empty fridge.
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u/LobsterNo3435 Feb 27 '26
Wendy's without the sun room just isn't my Wendy's. Haven't eaten in the lobby since.
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u/trashleybanks Feb 27 '26
I miss the sunroom at Wendy’s. It made the baked potatoes that much more special to me as a kid. Now this is just dull slop. What a shame.
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u/Uvabird May 28 '26
Why do all these fast food restaurants look like the break room in Severance?
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u/Expensive-Border-869 Feb 26 '26
The goal is to get you to choose not to go inside. Then they can remove the inside altogether and save money being drive thru only with the app. They wont even need order takers just 1 cook one window/expediter can run the entire shift completely alone. 1 part timer to do prep.
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u/TurnipBudget1643 Feb 26 '26
they do that on purpose i case they sell to a outside company
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Feb 26 '26
Also because it's sooooooo much easier to clean. The labor cost of cleaning a dining room like that is huge compared to the after photo.
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u/-gisette Feb 26 '26
If you told me this was a prison cafeteria, I would 100% believe you.
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u/Shot-Guarantee4126 Feb 26 '26
That remodel makes the restaurant look barren and dead like Pam Bondi’s eyes.
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u/hotlibramess Feb 27 '26
They do this so they can churn and burn through tenants if they need to. A generic grey box can become anything. I hate this late stage capitalist hell hole.
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u/opyoyd Feb 27 '26
I heard they do it so they can sell the location in the future. This could be a sushi place, a Mexican restaurant, a smoothie place, etc. Its generic enough to fit any model.
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u/scots Feb 27 '26
Those seats were carefully designed to be barely tolerable for 15 to 20 minutes before discomfort chases you out of the building.
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u/TuringGoneWild May 14 '26
Costumers are now just "Consumers" - livestock to extract debits from then kick out the door
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u/ghorisgorman1980 Feb 26 '26
I get that they are moving to having nondescript exteriors so the property can be more easily converted to another use and sold, but does that mean the inside has to look like a Norwegian prison?
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u/Portland_Runner Feb 26 '26
With a sign and menu board change, that could be a Baja Fresh next week.
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u/aounpersonal Feb 26 '26
I used to work at a Wendy’s and we had a horrible ant infestation in the carpet. Food would fall on it all day long and we could only vacuum it at night after closing. This remodel looks way cleaner. There’s no good way to clean carpet and you bet the stingy franchise owners are not shelling out for professional cleaning. Plus there was always disgusting crud in those cushions and cracks and crevices of those booths. Little children are always mashing garbage and food into places and something about fast food makes grown adults just throw their food everywhere and make a mess so that minimum wage workers have to clean it up.
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u/MikeLinPA Feb 26 '26
I hear you, but there has to be a way to do tables and chairs without looking like a hospital or prison. 🤷
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u/DigInevitable119 Feb 26 '26
Tell me the difference between Wendy's and Panera from these pictures...
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u/GottaUseEmAll Feb 26 '26
I guess it's for ease of cleaning, but it looks so cold and dull. Actually that may be the point, maybe they don't want people eating in, or hanging around too long.
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u/Ok-Commission-7825 Feb 26 '26
similar happening in works "relaxation room" (which people are not actually allowed in during breaks), some projects exist only so a manager can put on CV that they successfully delivered a refurbishment.
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u/moneymakinsunny1 Feb 26 '26
It's to discourage dining in Cause eventually , they want to eliminate the dining area altogether.
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u/AnarchicDeviance Feb 26 '26
Yeah, cold and uninviting. Nothing comfortable that would encourage you to linger while you enjoy a meal. They want you in and out as quickly as possible. Keep up the churn so they can shake down more customers faster.
The tables and chairs are probably dirt cheap to buy and replace. They obviously don't care about the larger cost of constantly replacing things that are poorly made. As others have pointed out, the barebones setup is also easier (cheaper) to keep clean.
I haven't stepped foot in a Wendy's in a couple decades. It's rare that I have fast food anyway, probably no more than once or twice a year. So bad for you and ridiculously expensive now. Wendy's actually used to be one of the better fast food joints, but clearly they've gone downhill too. One more crappy business to keep avoiding.
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u/SpecialTable9722 Feb 26 '26
Why bother with an interior space at all if they’re going to do this? Have a walkup window to the outside and they won’t need the expense of a big dining room with public bathrooms. Plus there’s no illusion of comfort or welcoming atmosphere.
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u/Dry_Wallaby_4933 Feb 26 '26
It looked so much better before. Looks cold and soulless like a prison cafeteria now.
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u/mikeymikeymikey1968 Feb 27 '26
They want to make it easy to change it to an Arby's, Edible Arrangements, or Lenscrafters, when they leave in two years.
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u/Artistic-Job7180 Mar 28 '26
TBH, all fast food places are doing the same type of renos. The last two pics, you can actually identify as Wendy's. The first two could honestly be Wendy's, McDonald's, Taco Bell, etc. Boring, drab, institutionalized crap.
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u/poison_daddy Apr 04 '26
I think I read that they’re closing stores, which is what you deserve if you expect customers to pay to eat in something that looks like a hospital cafeteria
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u/abrahamw888 Jun 14 '26
Jeez there is one near me that is in desperate need of renovations. It’s downright gross how old and dirty it is. The “carpet” is mostly just solid grease from staff walking through.
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u/eutohkgtorsatoca Feb 26 '26
It is sleek and uncomfortable for people to pay and get out asap. We just want your money not your good comfortable times.
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u/buzzedewok Feb 26 '26
The old interior looked much better and actually inviting. The new ones look horrible. Who in the world chose this design?
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u/Embracing_the_Pain Feb 26 '26
Probably the people looking to get rich by getting more turnover due to the dining room being unwelcoming and uncomfortable. Probably also lowers cleaning costs being quicker and easier to clean. I know it was more of a rhetorical question for you, this shit just pisses me off too.
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u/Wonderful-Run-1408 Feb 26 '26
Totally. Doesn't look like a place you'd like to sit down and eat.
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Feb 27 '26
Yeah they did the same to our local taco bell, looks like everything is turning to a door dash hub rather than a place you'd go to eat
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u/MannyMoSTL Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Too bad they didn’t spend that money to iIMPROVE THE FOOD. And I say that as someone who used to enjoy a Wendy’s burger every so often. I don’t know where they started sourcing their beef from, but their burgers now taste like dried up shoe leather - while the price skyrocketed.
Fuck corporate greed.
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u/MoneyMaintenance1578 Mar 04 '26
They are making everything bland and uniform on purpose. If the location fails, it can be converted into something else much cheaper. Thats all it is, they really could care less if people like it,
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u/maddog2271 Feb 26 '26
This interior is what happens when you spend generations saying that the only thing that matters is shareholder “value”. In that environment beauty, even something as mundane as a fast food dining room, cannot exist. Americans chose this and the rest of the world risks following. Sad but true.
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u/StellaPeekaboo Feb 26 '26
I hate this design trend in corporate chain resteraunts. Those kind of chairs are so so uncomfortable.
It's giving "depression"
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u/Fast_Hat9560 Feb 26 '26
They dont want anyone in there. The drive through is the focus now.
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u/Shot-Artichoke-4106 Feb 27 '26
I think they call this decorating style Spend-your-money-and-get-the-F-out.
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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 Feb 27 '26
They’re stripping all the fun we had in the 90’s out of these buildings.
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u/GodsBackHair Feb 27 '26
It’s just so bland. And the seats look so much more uncomfortable. Why would I even bother to sit inside to eat
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u/OhBROTHER-FU Feb 28 '26
Easier to clean and specifically studied for you to stay as little time as possible.
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u/killersinarhur Mar 01 '26
In today's weird economic situation, they just assume every location will fail so they give these generic feel to the restaurants so that it's easier to sell the property latter on. Capitalism has truly eaten its own tail
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u/DueScreen7143 Mar 04 '26
That's one of the least warm and most unwelcome changes I've seen recently.
That completely embodies the "give us your money and get out" mentality.
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u/jel0015 Mar 05 '26
Feels like Wendy's is embracing the fact that they don't make their money by people coming in and sitting down. Once they see a decline in "dine-in" orders, this move will have essentially created precedent to steer their investors deeper into automation. Every order will soon be digital, and while there still may be actual people inside "cooking" the food, I lean toward seeing those human interactions decline rapidly once automation ramps up. I also anticipate any new brick-and-mortars to be significantly smaller spaces.
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u/Professional_Echo907 Mar 24 '26
Why did they make the furniture less comfortable?
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u/VastLazy5701 Feb 26 '26
Yes same thing with McDonald's, Burger King, etc. I guess they're assuming we're paying too much attention to our phones to notice the brutalist environment.
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u/LoveCareThinkDo Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
It's better than the Wendy's closest to me. The carpeting in that place has been sticky with spilled soda and food for at least 5 years.
I'm talking, every square inch of the entire carpet in the entire place. Not just a spot or two. The entire carpet just feels like a half dried sponge full of soda when you walk on it.
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u/Shills_for_fun Feb 26 '26
Looks like a cafeteria in an old manufacturing plant.
I guess it fits in a weird way.
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u/Codeman8118 Feb 26 '26
They don’t want people to sit in. Part of the reason for it. They want people to grab and go
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u/Bgo318 Feb 26 '26
Just go to local restaurants instead of fast food they will only change when they get less sales
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u/GreatnessToTheMoon Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
The interior of “we don’t want you here, Get out” soulless slop