Arby's Swallows Up Wendy's

Associated Press ^ | 4-24-08

[Marysecretary]

I actually like the cheese sauce...LOL.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

When I went to Ohio State I worked as a banquet waiter and we really never got tips or anything. However, one night Dave Thomas was there and he gave all of us a 5 dollar tip (that was a big tip in 1983). He always seemed like a good guy.

[A message]

I had NO interest in slop served at Taco Bell

correction

[Poison Pill]

Farber said the family didn't think much of Peltz' and Triarc's tactics. "They came after them (Wendy's) and came after them and came after them. They spun Tim Hortons off, they did this, they did that. They did everything they asked but it wasn't enough." Farber said she had just gotten off the phone with her sister Wendy, 46, the company's namesake. "She's feeling horrible. She just is devastated," Farber said.

Oh, please. Lady, your family got rich by using money raised from the equity markets to grow the business. Now those shareholders want to maximize their investment. The restaurants are still going to sell crappy square hamburgers after the sale. What exactly is the big deal?

[doc1019]

Now they are small and tasteless …. ;-) Mcdees lite.

[OeOeO]

Either the portions go down or the price goes up. The consumers pay the price of the acquisition. Sometimes these buyouts make no sense.

[rwfromkansas]

You know what that means.......bye to the 99 cent menu at Wendy’s.

[kingattax]

its sad. dave thomas would be really upset

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****I remember Zantigos****

I loved Zantigos. Hated it when Taco Bell bought them.

[MarkL]

Arby's has some damn good roast beef sandwiches, almost as good as what USED to be served at the now dead and buried Roy Rogers Roast Beef Sandwich Restaurants

I never had the Roy Rodgers roast beef. I always had their fried chicken, which was the best fast food chicken that I ever tried. Better than Popeye's, better than Church's, and certainly better than Kentucky Fried Rat!

Mark

[Sherman Logan]

Either they’ve changed it or we have very different sense of taste.

[SeafoodGumbo]

Ya'll should hope and pray that you eventually get a Raisin' Cane's franchise in your town one day. They're out of Baton Rouge, and all they do are chicken fingers, but they're perfectly done. The restaurants are always clean and the kids working there always genuinely friendly (which is almost impossible in this city for fast food).

As for other good fast food, I think Sonic is pretty good.

[FastCoyote]

[$4.1 million, or 5 cents, a share for the quarter ended March 30 compared with a profit of $14.7 million]

Yikes, that really isn’t a lot of money in corporate terms.

[MarkL]

has anyone ever found a finger in an arby’s sandwich ?

Well, if they did, it would be the first time "real meat" was ever served at Arby's!

Mark

[SeafoodGumbo]

Raisin' Cane's.

[OeOeO]

has anyone ever found a finger in an arby’s sandwich ?

For all I know it can be all fingers and toes, they sure press the life out of it.

I'm not sure if I ever found the beef in an Arbys. Love the horsey sauce though.

[kingattax]

lol

[davisfh]

"For the time being, I will continue to allow other people to eat where they wish."

I am very much relieved.

[Delta 21]

I dont see whats so bad about building an empire that sold for over $2 Billion WITH A "B" dollars!(?)

The only reason I would be mad at that is if I didnt get to spend any of it.

[Revel]

I used to love Wendys. The food quality has gone way downhill. And I can’t even eat there french frys any more. They are just horrible since they went to the new oil. They smell like dead fish, and taste gross. Burgers are smaller, and they taste so greasy. Yuk. They already have gone downhill. I bet it get worse now.