Valentine's Day with Wendy's: No, not sisters, the Restaurant

Wendy's has the classic look that throws you back to the early 90's yet still helps you remember you are in a new millennium.  Why the new millennium feel?  The fact that they have kept up with the other fast food burger places in regards to the size of the sandwich and the classic burger taste.  That is the great thing about burgers.  You can rarely go wrong in cooking it; the problems arise when you try to dress it up with different condiments.; which Wendy;s does very poorly.

            I am disappointed in Wendy’s management and the way that they have disgraced what used to be America’s number one dollar menu.  I use to get the Jr. Bacon with a biggie fries and biggie drink like those things were going out of style.  Now I get a Jr. Bacon and there is a small piece of lettuce, a patty the size of a few quarters put together, and a strip of bacon somewhere in the abyss.  It’s a horrible thing they have done; and what about my biggie fries and drink?  They've taken those off the dollar menu all together!  If you haven’t already noticed, I feel like Wendy’s has personally slighted me.   Putting aside the personal attacks from their food designers, shame on them for such a horrible presentation.  Their burgers look like a bunch of ingredients fell on the ground and they quickly snatched them up and threw them back on in between two pieces of bread, barely accomplishing the task.

            Wendy’s is classic and will always have reserved for it a special place in my cholesterol laden heart.  However, Wendy’s offered a little bit of humor with the meal.  As I was driving away, I looked inside to see all the young and in love, poor college kids eating a cheap yet meaningful meal together; instead, I saw about three or four couples (not in a romantic sense, but a numerical count) of guys sitting down to a much different kind of meal; clearly the kind of meal that you eat with your buddies when you do not have a special someone to share it with.  I just thought it was funny because I was fully expecting a restaurant filled with young love when instead it was your typical testosterone filled, money deprived, impatient for cooking a real meal, college aged guys burger joint.  In recommendation, this goes out to all of you who are looking for a taste of nostalgia in these hard-pressed times of economic uncertainty and pinched wallets.