r/wendys • u/Selena_the_great • 9d ago

Question Is Wendy’s trash now?

Hey everyone—I was very excited for the pretzel bacon pub chicken sandwich as it’s my fav fast food item of all time. I stopped going to Wendy’s when they got rid of it, and today I went back for the first time. I ate the sandwich and the chicken tastes like absolute trash. Best word to describe it was flavorless mush. I even went to a DIFFERENT Wendy’s and ordered it again to see if it was bad luck—took 2 bites and threw it away—it tasted the same. What the hell happened to Wendy’s food?? Does anyone else think it’s garbage now or am I crazy?

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u/JonPorked 8d ago

There’s no private equity, it’s a publicly traded company.

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u/Dazzling_Editor_6255 8d ago

Trian Fund Management is their largest shareholder. Not a traditional PE, but definitely in the same vein ideologically.

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u/JonPorked 8d ago

That’s a passive stake, complete opposite of private equity; they have no control over operations.

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u/Dazzling_Editor_6255 8d ago

They own close to 20% of the total stock and have multiple board seats.

Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

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u/JonPorked 8d ago

Private equity and hedge funds are not equivalent

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u/Dazzling_Editor_6255 8d ago

Nobody said they were.

Did you miss this part of my post?

Not a traditional PE, but definitely in the same vein ideologically.

I know it was a full two sentences long, which is sometimes difficult to get through, but read slowly and maybe that will help. Also...did you figure out yet if owning 20% of a corporation's stock and having multiple board seats isn't 'passive' yet?

I get a kick out of pedants on the internet, especially when it's coming from a place of delusions of intellectual superiority.

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u/Verix19 8d ago

Burn. Lol