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Wendy’s Plans to Try ‘Dynamic Pricing’ Will Not Include 'Surge' Pricing

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0:00 what if Wendy's causes the nation just to do intermittent fasting like everyone like nobody eats a normal time you pass 12 they're like wow America's lost all this weight yeah we did it [Music] congrats okay there's something that you may have heard about right with Wendy's have you heard anything about Wendy's I know everything about the burger Wendy's something yeah something's I never really got into Wendy's man I'm a Wendy's connoisseur you may never get into it from I'm a Wendy's guy there's something that they're going to do that you're not going to like I already know I'm UPS there but I'm telling you it it was misunderstood by uh widely by everybody I'm part of that Wendy's is here to set the record straight what happened is news got out that Wendy's was going to start doing surge pricing kind of like uber andyt where like when things are

0:50 busier change yeah they were going to have this digital uh menu system on the wall that will like adjust according to the demand people are going to get mad people going get very upset people kind of crazy do you like that do you like that that's kind of a cool concept well if there is a cap it's fair so like let's say on a top end right if it's like it'll never be more than I don't know $5 for this meal right but then on slow times they'll drop it to increase foot traffic that seems pretty cool because you're never going higher than what it is but then if there's no cap on the high end then let's say it's the Super Bowl and everyone's trying to get burgers to like bring home then it's $25 a burger now you know which I think is kind of cool it's kind of cool I cuz that's how Uber works well that's how parking lots work right but that's um

1:41 but this is still like I guess when it comes to fast food yeah it's supposed to be the cheaper yeah you're not supposed to get you're not getting a premium product so to speak right well what are they going to do now they have to pay $20 an hour for employees except for Panera bre going to get robots dude but um so that's what pay increase too if you work surge hour if you work surge hours doy now everyone's in everyone's like wait a second wait wait stop stop stop stop wait wait wait so all I need is to get a bunch of fat asses to just roll up through Wendy's dude we got this just roll up we got this dude I'll be outside just you know with some goodies so initially that is what people thought that they were like oh boo they're going to make the price go up and all this stuff but it actually was more like what you said where well they probably did a horrible time like horrible job explaining that yeah so like when it's

2:31 slower then prices can drop and Deal New Deals can become available so like different um incentives not it's not just price going down but it's like hey since nobody's in here it's two for one now on this thing or I'm like I want I want sh restaurants already do this but then they're probably like doing it algorith algorithmically and then so isn't this just called happy hour basically yeah that's what I'm saying restaurants already do this instead of it being predictive now it's on the fly so like now it can tell you like oh it's happy hour right now because obviously nobody's in here I'm going to call you at like 3:45 a.m. and be like yo yo yo let's go get spicy chicken nuggets spicy chicken sandwiches for everybody it's only 5:30 a.m. Bart I know Bart's working out let's go get spicy chicken sandwich so it's a way to like provide

3:21 different incentives for things at exact times when it would be the most beneficial for them and you well you see all the fast food places they're all like pushing the app so hard so they like we'll give you a bunch of free ████ so you get on boarded to our app and then once you're onboard our app they could just send you marketing stuff of like hey have the the Wendy's app uh I have the Wendy's app and I have the McDonald's app but I haven't used it in so long that they've off how often did you eat Wendy's I ate like under five times in my whole entire life so I like Wendy's for me was the fast food place I grew up with oh you're a Baconator boy no I'm spicy chicken sandwich junior bacon cheeseburger oh wow that's that's my go-to cuz their dollar menu is sick you also get that that uh chocolate shake thing do they still have a dollar menu I don't know if they do they got good deals they have like the value men the bacon the junior bacon cheeseburgers is on the dollar menu but it's got to be like $129 like I don't think anything's

4:11 not dollar menus are almost extinct yeah I don't think anything's not in Garfield they've got the $5 bag deal there's a dollar store yeah I do like the square patties I think overall as if you're going to rank fast food establishments well like everything taking like burgers chicken and fries I'm a Wendy I didn't know that Wendy's in the scheme of all the fast food places it's actually on the higher end of of price do you know that yeah compared to like Chick-fil-A and all those it's actually more expensive I don't even know that wow it's kind it is a premium place then hey man I kind of do like the surge pricing just for everything a little bit cuz I think it would chill out like maybe some of the rushes for stuff so even if you have like you know like those toll roads meal time just everything so if you're you're like if you're willing to pay

5:01 then you can jump in during those peak hours or if you want to save some money they kind of adjust you know and spread out and spread out just spread everything out what if Wendy's causes the nation just to do intermittent fasting like everyone like nobody eats a normal you pass 12 they're like wow America's lost all this weight yeah we did it congrats because of surge pricing cuz that's what everyone everything already kind of is like TSA Pre you pay for extra right like everything kind of is is like that right but then now if you have a self adjusting thing then it's even smoother I pay PreCheck just to tell people that I'm not a terrorist in real life even though I play one in TV all time and you me and her you're a terrorist sometimes emotional emot subplot that's a whole a terrorist goes on a threesome dude there's your best that's

5:52 there it is Bart you're about to get signed what if Nick said that in the synopsis what does a terrorist do when confronted confronted with an option with a thre sub does he continue with his job or does he Fight For Love Like A Basha movie surge prices for fast food is like kind of a good idea I think kind of good for everything I mean hotels do that like there's so many things that are already like that yeah flights that is true a lot of businesses do do that it is but I guess it's the the I guess everything has a fixed cost though like the food is a fixed cost Yeah but I even for restaurants they're not like when they're sourcing sometimes they're you know they're supplier they have to eat the cost and you don't even know it's not really reflected on the customers end yeah we had to do price increases cuz all the um like

6:43 ingredients got higher have you guys increased price since opening with byot yeah unfortunately I don't want to but yeah would you adopt search pricing do you think um I can see like how it's beneficial cuz like so when it's dead right it's like the concept is you either either make some money or no money so then some money is better than no money how do you get people to come in to your shop and most people go well we'll do deals maybe two for one deals that's where happy hour and all those things come in cuz then it's like oh great like we usually have like zero to two customers during this time but now you do the happy hour and everyone hears about it and now you have 15 customers so that's kind of like you might have new customers try it your food because the prices are lower and now you have a customer am true yeah I mean you know Asians love

7:33 Deals they love deals but it's a volume thing you know like most restaurants too their margins are like less than 10% imagine that's just Wendy's was like we were just trying to get more Indians to come in they're like y they like the deals NE every fast food place needs a spicy everything spicy chicken I mean if they did a spicy cheeseburger I mean they do here cuz some of the some of the regional specials where they put jalapenos on everything you know here like they you won't see them in New York true and I'm like a bro I know what exactly they're like avocado I'm like you won't ever see avocado on anything than jle as an avid Wendy's consumer what could Wendy's have that they don't that would make you love it even more and don't say tikka masala that sounds kind of bomb actually tikka masala cuz don't they have like a little chili bow yeah yeah man what

8:24 would I want what would I want when a great great question dude you could dip some fries in some ████ Curry cuz you know how like we always have those thoughts we're like oh man if only In-N-Out had McDonald's fries or if only something had this oh there's always little nitpick things that you're like it would make it so much better dude I don't know I mean spaghetti no this ain't jollie I've never been I'm about get I'm about to get a bunch of hate people love joll yeah but Phils have good s of humor F dude I don't know I would just want everything spicier bring back the salad bar remember spicy salad oh dude spicy hot hot take no bro because dude I would go there and just get the pickled jalapenos and just put them on everything oh okay a salad bar everyone's going to hate me a drivethru salad bar they used to do Pea sandwiches

9:16 really wow you really are Jack the boxes do that too they used to do I think they still got them yeah yeah they're good dude when when their when their interior decoration had the salad bar and everything was like yellow oh yeah they made the interior like a restaurant restaurant that's a deep cut dude I used to go there and get the cheese sauce I don't know my my D if they if they adopted the search price thing right but it wasn't the one they were saying let's say they were like you know what ████ it let's make it go higher on uh busy days would would you turn your back on Wes I wouldn't turn my back if they had a happy hour to reflect they let's say they have like both if they had the balance because I will say this it'll get busy between 5 and 7: or like 5: and 8 and then like 12:00 a.m. to 2 A.M do you think that they would ever abuse it where like as soon as you walk in they go oh sorry we're surging 100% but I

10:06 feel like workers would be like this sucks so yeah the work because the argument is if they're charging more is our is our are we going to get a raise like and true you know what I mean are you making more money I think as technology um gets more advanced places like this they're just going to become more erased I don't think it's even a pay thing I think they just won't exist but that's like saying a restaurant is busier during meal times like of like of course it is it's like a child's book report yeah like it gets there's going people are hungry at breakfast lunch and dinner oh we're busy like what the ████ is that are you ████ stupid like you know what me it's almost the opposite right like if you work if you work at fast food during like no they it's known some shifts are busier than others right and you get paid the

10:56 same so you're like I don't want to work those shifts but in the restaurant scene because of tips they watch sh I don't want that dead ass shift with no tips like I want the one that's at night but but that's why like Jack in the Box for a while they were doing the munchie stuff like so like other promotions were past like 1 p.m. you know what I mean so like that was like their Happ was so smart you know what I mean so it's like they all they all Target in their own way see but they know what they're doing you know like I'll go to Wendy's now and I'll drop 30 bucks and I'll be like what the ████ I'm like I should just go yeah like like that no straight up if we all did our fast food order right now like you know whatever you would drop no joke $25 I said Bart order to your heart's content like till you're full yeah and you're not counting calories like you'll drop $30 dude I spent $26 at Del Taco the other day wow 26 what did you

11:48 ████ tip the guy I had to he forced me what what's your what's your favorite fast food place more than eight people in our party gratti was added what's that what's your favorite fast food place favorite right now is probably Jollibee he now what's your order at Jollibee uh the the two-piece chicken Joy spicy o okay yeah that's it two pieces of chicken two pieces of chicken with a with a SN what and a little toy a little squeaky toy yeah no it just has rice and and two pieces of chicken yeah you got ask you got ask barart you ask the wrong guy I think that's still like over 10 bucks I'm can't remember the that's at least 13 yeah but if that's not if jol's not around I mean freaking In-N-Out McDonald's see like when I go to In-N-Out and I eat a double double with fries uhhuh I could probably eat another one a

12:38 double double with PR you can still eat I used to I mean yeah I used to eat like that too I remember one time I had a 4x4 oh yeah I'll never forget it it was after I went into audition for stitchers oh and I was like I'm going to celebrate and I got a 4x4 cuz I was starving and I ate the whole thing and I was like that wasn't so bad and then 30 minutes later I was like oh I'm going to vomit everywhere I'm going to vomit everywhere it's too much cheese cheese that's why you that's why I go 4X two yeah that it was a rookie mistake yeah yeah yeah that is the best too I do that as well I don't even get cheese I just get three this salivating bro say cheese don't say cheese I could probably put down like four double doubles just like like honestly how many for real if we went to Inn out right now and I was like bar Max what is like I want you to eat as much as you can

13:28 comfortably what what would you do if I'm treating it like like we're celebrating in-n-out's anniversary together yeah okay good scenario all right we're getting invited to Inn out anniversary invite us the Gaya the way I like to eat things Gayla even the way that I ordered today I like to order um what's customary and then what's special yes please please enlight us if I get fries I get one regular fries like a dip and ketchup then also fries animal style so you have to that's do you get them well done the bifi version well done cuz I would respect you then I would have to get um I have to I have to jump boness or what if I feel Carby then I'll have like four double doubles cuz there's way more bread but if I'm like ah C back on the carbs I'll have two 4x4s two 4x4s okay so that's eight patties two 4x4

14:19 eight patties and eight slices of cheese for people who are counting at home holy ████ and then In-N-Out what's special about In-N-Out is their pink lemonade so I get a pink lemonade and then I have to get and then I have to get root beer Flo cuz that's my favorite and root beer they got root beer FL and your classic vanilla ice cream I'm sure you're not like a freak and a shake so like strawberry shake wait so you do the RO root beer float plus the strawberry shake see we have to be at like 3,000 and the lemonade the strawberry shake is small so I can walk out the door with it so that's your dessert myt that's for the car right home that's his that's his ass that's your ass cup he's like I go home I take a ████ and I use a strawberry shake to wash my ass front front wash like Joe though I remember we're trying to gain

15:10 weight back then and that was the cheapest one of the cheapest can someone pull up theal Cal in and out is the cheapest way to get your yeah we were trying to yeah okay so let me ask you another question what's your favorite fast food place you seem to you knew you're in and out of order there's a lot oh what's your like dieh hard go-to lifelong so I would say like when I was really bulking out uh coming out of high school uhuh cuz I was like 130 lb there's a local fast food place called JNS over here I don't even know what and my go-to order was their Taco plate so it comes with three tacos rice and beans and then I would get a breakfast burrito and then a orange bang you know the the orange bangs are what's an orange bang it's kind of like a so good that's like my goto thing it's like whipped orange have you had Orange Julius before for mm-m it's like a

16:00 creamsicle kind of like that that was that's like my that's my goto but if I go to McDonald's I get the AirLand and sea oh dude this guy is's like Mr Chows AirLand and sea chicken chicken nuggets fish filet Double Quarter Pounder with Mac sauce cuz it's Chang for you good for you and then I get fries McFlurry and then McDonald's Coke cuz their Coke is special their Coke is the best Coke is the best so in McDonald's I could put down like if I told you what my order is you'd be shocked tell me it's a double quar Pounder with cheese with Mac sauce yeah 20 nuggets wa that's a lot yeah I can do 20 nuggets six smart and then I'll do a large french fry the fries yeah the fries you can put then uh

16:50 I'll get like a small soda cuz I you got to get but you're missing the sea yeah fish filet was never one on dude come on you know bro fish filet is bang out so where's your favorite where's your favorite fish filet from then McDonald's McDonald's or Wendy's cuz Wendy's I heard's got a good one really I want to try to I want there's it's panko crusted oh yeah it's like legit our heard is big they got one at popey I'm going to try try Long John Silver Alaskan cod Bud know that you even know about that bro come on dude and they Southern fry us so it's different batter I think we need to start a food FL food blog Vlog let's do [Music]

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