This could be the worst Wendy's ever. I live near this location , been going for years , until last three years they stop putting sauces on their burgers ,just meat and cheese maybe a dot of ketchup and mayo in the middle , I stopped by today thinking they changed ,lol just meat and cheese dry as F ! That's why I drive to Oceanside and vista for this usually tasty burger , management and employees don't care at this location , just collecting pay checks with poor food quality , I will continue driving 25 minutes away instead of 10 because your company has the best burgers read more

Just finished eating here - Wendy's has consistent food but I would go elsewhere since service was really bad!!! Only one other customer in dining area and still bad... Dark haired older cashier had a forced script politeness but acted rude - then ignored my kids asking for sour cream that was left off baked potato (after about 2min of being ignored, shorter cook guy inquired from kids what they needed- gave it to them no issue ). !!! Last straw was one of my kids who is somewhat lactose intolerant asked same rude lady if there was dairy in frosty- her answer was robot "chocolate and vanilla, comes in 3sizes" .... being within listening distance, I asked my kids who are 6&8 to ask her politely again - "is there Dairy in the frosty?" She answers "no dairy" and walks away from them Just on gut feeling - I checked - pic attached - milk and cream in frosty!!! Thx lady for almost getting my kids sick... Ps. First bad review given -all my others are 5star -as a restaurant owner myself, I tend to be pretty forgiving, and prefer to spotlight awesome places instead... Sorry Encinitas Wendy's - Epic Fail! read more

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dining in for lunch: i got a baconator, which came out rather sad looking compared to the posed photos of said meat monstrosity. Bun was greasy, meat was off center, grease dripping out everywhere: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/57l_b53J-KZg6VqQKO-niQ?select=jY_aZAzgP0AbyyeYCkaKsw#jY_aZAzgP0AbyyeYCkaKsw (and not as big as i thought it would be). The beef and cheese tasted good - the bacon was a little overdone, and having such a greasy bun made it kinda gross to hold and eat. I think I would have preferred a Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger from Jack in the Box. But my wife loves their Spicy Chicken sandwich and fries, and so that's why we ate here. Sprite was a little strong. Food came rather quickly, though it took us a while to order since the counter person didn't come to the register right away. They have wifi though i didn't try using it. didn't want to get my phone all greasy. Still, right off the freeway makes it convenient for those on the road. TVs show "The Bite" network of random entertainment and sports news. read more

Wendy's - Baconator - Fast Food Near Me - Encinitas, California

This is by far the BEST Wendy s n the San Diego area!!! Their hot n juicy IS hot n Juicy!!!! They are Fast, accurate, and the food is hot! Wendy's has taken it to a new level with the Pretzel Burger! The bun is soft and the burger is awesome. It didn't taste like a fast food burger to me! Love their salads too! Nice and fresh haven't had a bad one yet! read more

The entertainment from the sheer disappointment from the other customers was well worth The punishment of horrible service. The dining room was disgusting. you would have better luck pulling a rabid pitbull's tooth than trying to get napkins from the cashier. everything in the dining room was empty. I watched four people get fed up and walk out trying to order. One man started screaming. i'm going back next week to catch another show! read more

Food was bad. Stale and not tasty. Location itself is in need of major remodeling. Staff also could be friendly; they're not rude but obviously did not want to be there. read more

We went for the first time to Wendy's Encinitas Ca. The place looks new, nice, and, clean. We ordered and paid a total of $31. The app says free large fries. The counter register did not recognize the app. The manager just said, "I don't use apps", the attitude was very bad. She just doesn't care at and no apologies at all. We would not recommend coming here. I guess this is why the place is empty. I wonder if it's because I am Asian? read more

Faster than most other drive-thru's and convenient. Plenty of condiments and napkins added. Much better experience than other fast food options. read more

We went for the first time to Wendy's Encinitas Ca. on the way to The manager gave me the worst attitudes and no apologies at all. We ordered and paid in the total of $31. The app says free large fries. The counter register did not recognize the app. The manager just said, "I don't use apps", the attitudes was to the heavens, and nope she isn't a "Karen". She just doesn't care at all. We would not recommend coming here at all. And mind you, we come in the store respectful and we are clean highly educated people not coming in like looking homeless. We even greeted everyone at the counter and asked how they are doing. This I guess why people aren't coming here. read more

First things first -- Wendy's food is great and it's a great value, too. My beef (no pun intended), is that this is the SECOND TIME they've done the 50 cent Frosty promotion, and when I go there, they don't have them! Last time it was at the Vista location, at 1:15. They just said "We ran out, sorry." How is that possible? I still ordered a meal, because again, for fast food, I think they have good quality and value for the money. Tonight, at the Encinitas Boulevard location -- 7:45 p.m. -- no chocolate frosty's. We were in drive-thru. I went to the window and sternly (but without yelling), said "How can you run out? That makes no sense. If you do a promotion like this, you guys need to be prepared for a high volume of business." The woman (tattoos on arms, heavy-set), snapped at me, "We run out because you're not the only person ordering them!" before slamming the window shut. She didn't curse at me, or yell at me. But...I think in that situation, when YOUR BUSINESS is at fault for not having product that is being advertised heavily (on the radio)...you need to be sympathetic. Apologize, and at least go thru the motions and act like you're concerned about us not being able to get what we wanted. read more

if i could give this 0 stars, I would. I ate and had a literal ROCK in my fries. how does a ROCK get into fries?! i don't even know if that is a rock. that's my guess. could be broken off piece of some equipment they have as well. Completely shattered my teeth and when i called, nobody was helpful but don't worry, they offered me a new $10 meal! Thanks! after giving me such a horrendous meal and completely ruining my teeth!! so soo helpful. sorry for the gross pic. only way i could show. Like offer a little something more when there is a hazardous ROCK IN MY FOOD. could've choked to death if i didn't know better. When i called and said this, the first employee on the phone had no idea how to handle the situation. SIR, your kitchen environment is clearly hazardous. proceed professionally and take action. don't just sit there saying "uhh what do you want me to do" because that's literally what he said. my response was "well what do you wanna do?! i don't work there, i'm not getting a check to figure out the next step. you figure it out and tell me". absolutely ridiculous. ew. read more

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Terrible costumer service. Worker was very rude, and the guy in front of me called her twice and she ignored him while standing 2 feet away.

My second visit to this Wendy's. My last. The checkout person was rude, contradictory and obviously had no regard to fill my order. At first I thought it was "mask confusion" but the order was returned to me half filled per the order. Drive to another burger place or expect to drive away with REGRET read more

Great place for a kids to get a burger combo. The food is fresh and the service is 5 star. And, for 4.00 it's a deal for the combo. My daughter loves this Wendy's over others. Try it. read more

I've been to this Wendy's multiple times and every time has been sub par, however this particular time was so horribly disappointing I had to write this review. Adrianna I guess was the manager, and whoever is at corporate needs to look for a change of management. I can't believe someone who has not an ounce of customer service is allowed to run a store. No wonder all of these reviews are bad. I had a coupon for buy one chicken sandwich her one free I guess I couldn't order the blt version which was fine she stated it's on the coupon but it's not. Either way that's fine I switched to the Dave's singles instead on the same coupon book. I get to the window and this joke of a manager asked me to cut the coupon out with scissors myself when I handed her the sheet because she couldn't cut it herself. When I said how ridiculous it was she simply said how it wasn't her job to cut the coupon for me and I should have been prepared when I. And to the window. How absolutely piss poor was that? I would hope that's not how management is trained at this location and this one was just someone who slipped through the cracks. I couldn't even order my food I just laughed at her and told her to cancel my order. I was absolutely stunned at how this manager treated a customer. I buy food for my employees from here all the time and I will never step foot inside this location again. This definitely needs to be looked at I am truly stunned and at a loss for words at how someone who manages a restaurant is allowed to talk to guests. I wouldn't trust her to run a lemonade stand. Sad. read more

Extremely disappointed with this particular location. I grew up enjoying Wendy's and always looked forward to having a junior bacon cheeseburger and chocolate frosty. However, I don't know if the service was as terrible then compared to what my sister and I witnessed exactly one week ago. On Saturday August 10th approx. 11AM, my sister and I went through the Wendy's drive thru near Vulcan Ave in Encinitas. There were no cars in front of us nor any cars behind us, I thought, "Wow, this will be a quick and easy drive-thru experience."..I was wrong. We pull up to the speaker and the woman sounded very impatient saying, "Are you ready to order?" My sister and I were a little taken back by the abrupt question. When I said I was going to need a moment (it wasn't even 10 seconds) she asked again, "Are you ready to order?" Getting annoyed, I placed the order for our family. Instead of the woman repeating the order, which we had an idea she missed a couple items, the order was taken down from the screen before even pulling up to the window. The woman at the drive-thru had dark brown hair ( I think she had it in a bun). Before giving the woman the total, I asked for her to verbally repeat the order. When she repeated the order she missed two junior bacon cheeseburgers. I told her she missed two burgers. Instead of owning up to the mistake she lied to save face and said in a snappy tone- of -voice, " I did include those." I asked again for her to repeat the revised order, now with the two burgers, and the total amount changed. Nothing upsets me more than being served by someone who doesn't do well with customer service. My first official job, prior to babysitting was working at a burger restaurant with a drive-thru (ironic). If I made a mistake on a customer's order, I would at least apologize and fix the problem. The job paid very little, but I at least made customers feel respected and welcome. This woman didn't even say sorry for rushing us in the beginning and being dishonest to my face. This is why I prefer to go with family-owned or smaller restaurant businesses for quality food AND service. read more

It's Mother's Day today. And my wife, a mother of five, arrived at the curb side pick up for our mobile app order (which we placed 15 minutes previously to our arrival) and this mother of five had to stand outside directly at the curbside pickup sign to not be provided our already prepared order which was already bagged and ready to be picked up. We could see our bag of food through the window, however the door was locked and my wife was unable to enter after calling on her cell phone to inform the workers that we were here to pick up our curbside pickup at the curbside pickup sign. We were informed to drive through the drive through behind 10 cars and we had had to wait 20 minutes to receive our already prepared food. You are overpaid and under worked. Please consider using your brain and take a few moments to meet us at the curb side pickup in order for us to retrieve our curbside pickup which is located appropriately 10 feet from your drive through window and provide us with our prepared food next time since it is difficult for us to drive through your drive through as we have an oversized vehicle. read more

Chicken Pecan salad is a winner. I am on a diet. This salad has a pomegranate vinaigrette with candied pecans, chicken and blue cheese. Yummy! read more

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This particular location is always: --Patronized by the day laborers that seek work on the corner nearby. --Quick, somewhat clean and predictable. --Open for business. I guess every working class schlub likes a juicy, hot redhead. Wendy, you lil tramp. read more

I ordered 2 of the Wendys $5 combo specials. I specifically asked for freshly cooked fries. When I paid at the drive up window, I asked the manager that took my money if the fries were freshly cooked, and she assured me that they were. Pulled thru the drive thru and drove into Smart and Final parking lot 2 blocks away. Opened our bag to eat lunch and both orders of fries are stone cold, hamburger pattys on the both of the double stacks we ordered was room temperature warm and dry like is was cooked yesterday and just reheated a little bit today, cheese on the burgers wasnt even beginning to melt. Well, the soda was pretty good. We fed our nasty fries and nastier burgers to the seagulls in the parking lot at Smart and Final. I will never go back to this Wendys. This place SUCKS! read more

This place is right down the street from my work, and it's cheap so I come here every once in a while. I always order stuff off the dollar menu when I come here since this is the place I choose to frequent when I'm most broke! They're super quick, have friendly employees and always get my order right! Anyway, today I was on my way to Little Ceasars to get a pizza when I saw a picture of chili cheese fries in the window. They looked delicious. So naturally, I decided to go to Wendy's instead. Bad idea. The fries were still half frozen and they were just all around gross. I will say this though, the cheesy cheeseburger and the bacon chicken sandwich are like 1.60 each. It's enough to fill me up and they're both good! All in all, pretty good place. read more

Small, cramped feeling Wendy's with slow service. I'm not sure what else I could add to embellish these points, but if nothing else, our order was correct and served warm so that warrants 2 stars I suppose. Otherwise, to put things in perspective, while we were waiting, my wife apologized to me for suggesting we go to Wendy's for something quick. While I reassured her rk was fine and not her fault, the point is made: this Wendy's isn't up to par. read more

Ok so I eat fast food maybe once or twice a year..and this past Wednesday night happened to be one of them. Tired, coming home from a loonnnnggg Disneyland trip, we decided to stop by and grab a quick bite so we could just crash when we got home . I completely forgot about how amazing Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers and Frosty's are! I'm not saying I'm going to be a regular, I just thought it was really, really good! :) read more

Oh boy has Wendy's gone downhill... Ever since they introduced their fish sandwiches, their fries have smelled and tasted like fried fish. Blech! (Not that fried fish is a bad thing. It's just not how I like my fries to taste or smell.) Their burgers also seem to have changed a bit too, but I can't really put my finger on the difference. Maybe it's the buns? Neither of the changes in taste (quality?) seem to be isolated occurrences at the Encinitas location. At various Wendy's throughout San Diego I've had the same experience. Too bad, so sad. read more

In response, to slow service. We went here around 9pm.manager was there to take our order. What I noticed that he was conscious what we are trying to order. Very attentive. Our order was received in less than 3 minutes. Everybody was hands on.. But what I do noticed in comparison to other wendys store, this store is not well lit. No t.v. they might need to fix the spot light (see picture) There is wi-fi. The ambiance is mixed with family and friends crowd. Cleanliness is fair. Restroom and eating area is clean. Some areas need to be cleaned. read more

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I ordered two baked potatoes and a large side of fries. They gave me two potatoes and no fries. We had to go all the way back and the first time we ordered they didn't even talk to us in the drive Thru. They weren't paying attention to what we were saying at all read more

Nice location, friendly employees I ordered a cheap chili, not 99 cents anymore :/ Oh well Also got a large fries. I think the food took about 8.5 seconds to get to my hands. Wow. Fast. read more

May have just been a bad day but woman on wireless remote taking orders was very impatient , short and sarcastic when taking my order today. Latin woman with glasses. Poor customer service/relations. If continues next time, I won't be back. Giving benefit of doubt and hope it was isolated incident... read more

Visited at 2:50 on 12-7-17. Food was great but the cashier seemed more interested in speaking with her fellow employee than providing customer service. She sounded depressed on the intercom and at the window. We had to ask for condiments and sauce for our chicken nuggets or we would have received none. She seemed in a hurry to get back to chatting with her friend. As regular customers and Wendy's stock holders this really ticked us off. read more

i just went there to order inside the red. the door was unlocked and open. I stood at the counter and waited for a minute. Finally what appearEd to be a manager came and said that she co not tame my order because she didn't have a cashier or cash drawer? Not exactly sure? it was about 3:00pm in the afternoon. Told me I had to go through the drive through? this is totally ridiculous when there were plenty of people working in the back of the restaurant? The drive-through long was ridiculously long which is why I went inside the restaurant to begin with. She proceeded to follow me out when I went out the door and then locked it I believe? What is the point of having all those employees working when no one can wait on customers? I will never go back to this restaurant again! there is no excuse to not be waiting on customers when you have plenty of staff in the back of your restaurant and when you have a perfectly capable manager right there telling me that she can't do it! read more

HMMMMM! So yummy!! The wifey ‍ and kids loveeee the delicious burgers! Here's a suggestion to the manager of this Wendy's, maybe don't make the patties square because it scares my son! anyways will visit soon! read more

It's an ok Wendy's - but nothing special. My main complaint is that there are tons of Day Laborers hanging out at the drive-through exit, who gawk at you as you wait for the light to turn green. They're not mean or "scary" - I just feel uncomfortable with that many people are staring me down. Food's fine - and they usually (but not always) get all the right crackers, sauces, etc. read more

They get my (admittedly) complicated order mostly right most of the time which I guess is ok but not as great as it could be. This one is fairly clean compared to other locations and it doesn't get too busy. Drive thru is fairly quick and its in a safe feeling area. Dont make a special trip for this one but if you are in the neighborhood this one is ok. read more

Forgot one item that I paid for in the drive-through and I'll change my rating if they make it easy to pick up the missing item tomorrow when I return. I did call and speak with Victor to tell him that the item was missing but that it was inconvenient for me to come all the way back right now. He said I could come tomorrow. I will happily change this rating if it is a no hassle pick up. read more

Fast food, pretty good, fairly inexpensive. This particular Wendy's I believe is a 24 hour drive through one. Its right off the freeway in the same parking lot as Subway, Shell, Little Caesar's and some other eating establishments. read more

Okay, so this place sucks. I called to see if they had been affected my the horrendous tornado that struck this area just a couple of weeks ago. I call and immediately said "Hi, this is Rob" Then she proceeds to say "Hi, I don't care Rob." I hate this place. . I'm gonna go to Burger House. Bye dumbos. read more

First of all DON'T LOOK AT THOSE BAD REVIEWS FOR THIS PLACE. When ever I order here it's always fresh, always clean, and the customer service here is amazing. I come normally during lunch the lunch rush but they are fast for being in rushes read more

Don't get the grilled chicken wrap. It's a slab of rubbery processed chicken, tastes and feels like a rubber eraser.

Wendy's has two things I really like, the french fries and frosty's. Their fries are quite salty, which for me (an avid salt fan), is a really good thing. I love the taste of them. Mine were also nice and hot too when I ordered through the drive thru. For a fast food treat you can also never go wrong with their frosty's. Their burger's are ok for being fast food. To me they have their combo meal prices set a bit too high though. read more

The location is pretty good as it is somewhat close to the Coaster station and on Encinitas Boulevard. Service can be a bit slow because it seems to be understaffed. Food is the same as any other Wendy's. read more