Sales drop at Wendy's after finger found

yahoo.com ^ | March 25, 2005 | ANDY RESNIK

[aculeus]

Was it fresh?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1370756/posts?page=27#27

[Ditter]

Wait just a minute!!!!! If "restaurant employees" are not to blame and "company suppliers" are not to blame, Who the hell cooked this stuff and WHERE did it come from??????

[null and void]

Well duh! If we knew who was going to go missing we could just follow them around and see where they went.

Then they'd never go missing in the first place, and we wouldn't need their DNA!

[gitmo]

Sales Drop After Wendy's gives Customer the Finger.

[Savage Beast]

Duh! Some people bank DNA samples from their children. Uh...I know it's hard to believe, but sometimes children wind up missing even when they're closely watched. Uh...it makes sense to some people, not to all.

[null and void]

[I have DNA samples from my kids archived]

Well DUH! Maybe we should lock up our kids so the predators can roam free.

Oh wait! Uhhh, *nevermind*

[expatguy]

Thank goodness there was no booger on it. That would have been really gross.

[imfleck]

When I was a kid I used to work at Wendy's. When I had burgers that were sitting on the grill too long and starting to dry out, we'd put them into a big container to be later dumped into the chili.

We called it "chili'd out."

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

You don't know where that finger's been.

[MediaMole]

My favorite Wendy's moment...

In a Wendy's just outside Little Rock, AR on the way to Dallas. The guy making my buddy's chicken sandwich looks for a knife for the mayo. He looks around for a moment, shrugs, then sticks his thumb in the mayo and spreads it on the sandwich. Then he sticks his thumb in his mouth and licks off the remaining mayo.

Once the sandwich has been eaten and we are back on the road, I mention the incident to my friend.

[Starboard]

Good one! LOL. But remember, this was just an "isolated instance". :)

[Savage Beast]

Do you really? I haven't done that, bu it seems like a very good idea.

I'm sorry I was so crabby. I just feel like being crabby today. I don't know why. Sometimes you just feel like a crab.

[null and void]

No problem. (Since you're crabby today, would you mind staying clear of my fingers? I don't want to be the guest of honor on the next thread)...

[kylaka]

Dave mentioned the "chili burgers" because he gave a talk to some Harvard or Stanford business majors, who basically told him that it was a consumer ripoff and ethically wrong to take burgers and make chili out of it. No matter how he explained it (he owned the meat, and until he sold it he could with it as he pleased, so long as the customer was pleased with the final product)... no matter how he explained it, they just didn't get it. You could tell he was dismayed and frustrated by the exchange with the students and finally just joked that a Harvard education just ain't what it used to be.

To anyone in business with an ounce of common sense it is just bad business not to do everthing possible to cut waste in order to provide the highest quality products at the lowest possible cost.

[Savage Beast]

...one of the advantages of online friendships.

[Larry Lucido]

You mean those weren't chicken nuggets I had for lunch there???

No, they were . . . . .

[Larry Lucido]

[Uncle Vlad]

What about sales of Eskimo Pies? ;)