Ex-worker here. I can clear up somethings. I quit last year. (Thank God!)
1. Wait times. This Wendys cannot handle rush times. Mostly due to the fact that the store was constantly understaffed and the cookers did not put down enough fries/meat, so customers had to constantly wait for fresh food. The longest I saw someone wait was 20 minutes max.
2. Hygiene. In response to Emilymae T. The hygiene gets more atrocious as the night goes on. I've seen employees make salads without gloves because "putting on gloves takes too much time." At night, I have seen my MANAGERS on multiple occasions make sandwiches without gloves on. It's easier to get away with because at night because the dine-in closes at 10pm and nobody can see you in drive-thru. Additionally, it was VERY COMMON for hungry employees to sneakily eat nuggets when nobody was looking. They would put their hand into the heating tray and just take one. Speaking of hygiene, I was once sick and called off and the manager had the audacity to call me and leave a voicemail saying "you need to come in if you don't have a doctors note." I didn't have a doctors note because I'm not going to the doctor for a common cold. I decided to delete the voicemail and I still didn't show up.
3. Closing Time. In response to John D. There was a glitch in the speaker where the closing announcement was supposed to go off at 12:00AM. For some reason, it was going off at 11:30PM. Employees had the ability to cut-off the announcement by speaking to you, but most of us didn't feel like it because we wanted to go home early or our managers told us to just ignore you. The glitch is no longer there I believe.
4.Meat Availability. In response to Autumn B. The average chicken sandwich takes 6 minutes to cook. Many times, they run out of a certain type of chicken and will recommend you to get another type unless you want to wait the 6 minutes. I would wait for the 6 minutes because you'll be guaranteed a fresh chicken. After the grilled chicken is cooked if it isn't immediately used then it is often left in a container that has water in it. This is so that the grilled chicken doesn't dry out. I've seen employees serve dried out the chicken to customers.
5. In response to Christopher C. No...you need to get a grip. It's a fast food restaurant that employs minimum wage workers for about $8. (I got more because I worked closing shift.) Anyway, the point is that the employees really don't care if you don't come back. It's one less customer for them to deal with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. If you want something done then you need to fill out the survey on the back of the receipt instead of complaining on Yelp. The district manager sees all the responses and yells at the store manager to fix the problem. (You'll most likely get a free meal if you leave a negative review.) I snooped around the manager computer when I worked there and apparently the district manager emails the store manager every time there is a negative complaint.
Like I said, I don't work here anymore so I'm not sure if these practices have changed or not. I can only speak for myself and what I have seen.
Anyway, Chick-fil-A is right across the street so I'm not really sure why you decided to eat Wendys instead of Chick-fil-A. Your loss. read more