I will never ever purchase from this Wendy's... ever.
Store #00011675, Middletown, DE.
This is how it started: 1 item was missing, a children's cheeseburger. I had to drive back to the store to get it for my child. It took me 3 people til I could talk to the manager. She arrived to me angry. She never apologized.
I asked her to provide the item that was missing and a new sandwich for me as mine was cold while I drove back to the store, since the point of going to a drive through is to eat it while you are driving. However I did leave that in the car as I rushed in.
She did not want to replace my items as I did not have a receipt. The only receipt I had was food.She never apologized.
She spoke loudly and in a disrespectful tone as she said I was speaking that way to her. I did speak to her that way after her refusals and shouting and I did not respect her tone or attitude or demeanor. Respect is earned, not a given.
There were other customers in the store who started shouting at her because of the way she was treating me! I didn't know them! One man shouted to her angrily that he couldn't believe how she was treating me. Others joined in. And he walked out.
I asked for her name, as she had identified herself as manager. She refused to tell me her name. (She was a middle-aged woman with dark hair and a thick accent. I have seen her there before.)
I went out to my car to get the cold sandwich. Sheesh it would have been nice if she had not made me go through hoops. I brought it back in as she said to do, but then she refused to remake it. The other customers shouted at her again! She would still not give me her name.
I eventually got my sandwiches from someone else who handed them to her. She basically threw them at me.
As I was leaving, another couple actually came up to me and gave me their receipt with the store number on it, and showed me the code to use on the back to write a complaint. They had arrived on their receipt at 12:45 but I ordered around 1:15 on November 30, 2023. This nice couple told me they had had problems with her before.
I ate my sandwich and then started pecking out my long review as you see here. The review asks for you to be as detailed as possible. So I was. When I completed it, it would not let me continue as I had had too many characters. It never mentioned a number of characters that would be allowable nor did it count the characters so I could edit without counting each letter and space.
So I went home to call corporate. I did manage to get through to a customer service supervisor, who took notes and said I would receive a phone call back. That is nice.
My advice is to avoid this Wendy's store on Middletown-Warwick Rd. in Middletown, DE. There is a ChikFilet about 8 stores away on the same road. I would recommend ChikFilet if you are in Middletown.
I think this manager should be schooled on how to treat people. Respect is earned, not a given, especially when she was in the wrong. I would say the fact that she refused to give me her name is evidence she knew she was in the wrong.
Thank you for reading.
(I do not know why my profile says I am from CA. I have always lived in DE.) read more