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  • Wendy's is walking back suggestions it will start surge-pricing burgers and fries.
  • On an earnings call, the company's CEO said it would begin experimenting with "features like dynamic pricing."
  • Wendy's later said its dynamic pricing wouldn't raise prices and would only offer discounts.

Wendy's on Tuesday appeared to walk back comments from CEO Kirk Tanner that prompted widespread reports — and backlash — over the idea that the company would be introducing surge pricing for burgers and fries.

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[–] banichan 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kinda hard to know if that's what it was. I left and never came back. They definitely weren't busy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha I'm just messing with you. Wendy's said they were introducing surge pricing to change their prices throughout the day. So when you said you paid a lot for a burger, I was joking around asking about the time as if they already had it in place.

[–] banichan 1 points 8 months ago

Might be this particular owner just got greedy, I think 😒