Do the employees make more money during these times?
You know they won't lol
I can't imagine why they would
We'll just call more of them up at the last minute. Get here in 20 minutes or you'll be on 3rd shift.
So, you're a restaurant and when people come for restauranting at restauranting times, you charge them more, because people should actually come restauranting outside restauranting times.
That is, er, innovative.
I don't know how it is in the US, but people will typically go for lunch at lunch times where I live and if a fast food restaurant starts considering this kind of shit, it will promptly go out of business.
Corporations aren't trustworthy enough to handle all the data they've been given with modern computing. Of course they're going to pick it apart and try to figure out a way to profit off it, customer service, ethics, and common sense be damned!
I can't wait until they use this and "market pricing" to justify charging minority demographics in urban centers more for higher-traffic peak hours or simply extend the peak hours wider in these zones to exploit these communities more aggressively.
You know they will, because they'll be able to, and the current "justice" system doesn't know what just action looks like if it marched in to Congress and stole the podium.
We already allow housing, transportation, groceries, and I'm sure tons else to be effectively price-redlined, so I'm disappointed but not surprised to see more of it encroaching.
For those of us outside the US/North America, what is this flux price Wendy's thing?
Basically, price surges on the menu when in high demand. So if you would go take out some Wendy's during some holiday or a very busy time the prices would be higher than usual.
Obviously, I agree with others that Wendy's will probably do that sneakily and not with huge price difference but the concept is disgusting especially when it comes to food imo.
Oh wow, that's really bad wtf. I would not mind it if it meant that the employees also get paid that much extra. But by looking at another comment here, it looks to me as if that is not the case. Really sad how undeserving of our support this system is, especially in the USA.
Now they can legally advertise one price, and then charge you a completely different one! They're probably hoping you won't even notice you got ripped off.
I stopped doing fast food a long time ago. My burgers are way better now. Its just not worth it if you have a kitchen
The point of fast food is not to get a great burger, it's to get someone else to make you a mediocre burger fast either because you're in a hurry or you're tired and you don't feel like cooking
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that a McDonald's cheeseburger is better than a homemade one lol
Theyre backtracking now. "thats not what we said"- wendy's ceo. Too late bro.
Yeah exactly. This is captialism 101: have absolutely no morals and want to maximize shareholder profits? Are you SICK of negative PR impacting your bottom line? Try 'leaking' today! Leaking let's you test out your controversial decisions with minimal risk! Simply gaslight consumers if they react to it! Try leaking today!
Some places seem to do this through a shitty app, that only gives discounts at unpopular times.
Of course it only does this like twice, so you never get any good deals once you've used it a few times. RIP Double Bacon XL for like £2. No way am I paying normal Burger King prices. There's a fucking Greggs next door you chimps!
Americans when surge pricing:
Americans when all the burgers are 30% off all year except at lunch and dinner (it's happy hour now): 😀
Then you raise prices every month until it's back. :D
I hate the use of the pedofascist's meme format but it's very fitting here.
I get it
