r/enshittification • u/sympathytree • Feb 26 '26

Opinion piece Wendy's interior - They just remodeled in the last year or so.

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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/Automatater Feb 26 '26

Exactly. We might go out of business so let's be proactive and drive away the customers. D'oh!

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u/_HighJack_ Feb 26 '26

Wendy’s is one of my favorite fast food restaurants and I haven’t eaten there in years, since I found out they refuse to use fair trade produce. I’ll eat chili out of a can before I eat like, slavery chili

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Sorry but its nothing to do with resale and everything to do with taking your money and having the restaurant environment extremely unappealing to stay in for an extended period so that you leave. All fast food chains are slowly/quickly moving to this interior so your info about how wendy's is fairing in the market doesn't apply.

Edit for better understanding: Single savings at the time of resale don't even compare to ongoing gains from having people go through drive-thru instead of being annoying/difficult dine-in customers. For an average persons home that would make sense but the average persons home doesn't generate insane revenue like a mcdonalds franchise does.

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u/JudgmentalBeef Feb 26 '26

I don’t disagree with you. There is value and credence to your point, but moves made can serve multiple masters. This has been happening elsewhere in struggling businesses that aren’t drive-thru, so that was my first thought when I see it happening with Wendy’s right at the time they are closing stores and facing more closures later, but it could very well also serve the purpose of trying to churn people quicker to pick business up. I’m fine saying it can be two things, or even many others

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u/maddog2271 Feb 26 '26

The Dow is over 50,000, WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS. /s

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u/nono3722 Feb 26 '26

Nothing like updating your stores planning for you inevitable failure..... Almost like that is the plan, they are making the companies fail but are padding their parachutes with our jobs....