[Red Badger]

Where's the beef?..............

[ClearCase_guy]

Howard Roark laughed.

[PhilosopherStone1000]

Schlotskys? I think someone has a case of the Mondays!

[antiRepublicrat]

Sometimes I feel like I’m dumber than a hamster. Reference the Simpson’s episode where Lisa was doing a science experiment to show that a hamster was smarter than Bart. The hamster quickly learned not to touch the food due to the resulting shock, while Bart kept trying for the cupcake, getting shocked over and over and over.

How does this relate to me? Every few years I seem to go to an Arby’s thinking “Maybe I won’t get sick this time.”

[oblomov]

Will all of the Arby’s and Schlotsky’s stores be converted to neoclassical architecture?

[Berlin_Freeper]

I dated a girl who worked the drive-thru at Wendy's, by driving through.

Ah those were days!

[Brookhaven]

Actually the problem (imho).

Arby's went started going down hill a couple of decades ago when they started expanding their menu into an "all things to all people" menu, and lost their focus on sliced roast beef sandwiches.

A roast beef sandwich, potato cakes, and Jamoca shake was once their core menu item, and pretty much all they needed.

The last time I went into an Arbys and ordered a roast beef sandwich, it was like "wtf is this?"

They need to get back to basics. Throw out all the fried chicken and specialty sandwiches and get back to sliced roast beef. Add sliced turky or chicken, and maybe sliced ham, and build the menu from there.

"You want sliced beef, turkey, or ham? What side item would you like: potato cakes or curly fries? Would you like a coke or milkshake?" Do just a few things and do them well.

www.nerds4cain.com

[steve86]

after it was caught with an overpriced menu in a budget-killing recession.

I'll say it's overpriced. I'm cheap, but Arby's is a once a year visit for me except for their coupon deals (which can be good value).

[kalee]

Arby’s ping

[Buckeye McFrog]

for those who cannot follow this without a scorecard:

-Dave Thomas passed away in 2002

-The new management ran Wendys Corp into the ground
within just a few years

- Wendys filed for bankruptcy and was bought by Arbys

- Arbys nursed them back to health and quickly found Wendys to be a much more profitable enterprise than Arbys

- So Arbys is selling off Arbys and becoming Wendys. Wendys will be the company formerly known as Arbys while Arbys is taken over by this group from Atlanta.

[SeaHawkFan]

Our city got an Arby’s six months ago and it just closed. Opening 200 feet from a Sonic wasn’t a good plan.

[savedbygrace]

Arby’s has one item worth ordering: the roast chicken club.