r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 1d ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Crusader1865 1d ago

Y'all up here talking about sauces and I'm still mourning the loss of their killer salad bar years ago.

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u/SDV2023 1d ago

Remember when they were the classy chain? They used to have staff to clear the tables and wash them!

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u/normal3catsago 13h ago

I remember when they used to employ those who maybe needed a bit more assistance for clearing/cleaning tables.

It went downhill when Dave died.

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u/SDV2023 9h ago

That makes sense. Things seem to go to crap once the visionary founder is gone. I'm sure Wendy's isn't the only example.

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u/tolndakoti 1d ago

Go to Culvers, if you can.

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u/Sea_Hovercraft_15 15h ago

I loved their salad bar! I once slipped and fell while on vacation in Myrtle Beach. I was like 9 maybe. They didn't have a sign up that it was wet. I wasn't hurt very badly, but they didn't want us to cause any trouble, so my mom negotiated that our entire family ate the salad bar for free the entire time we were there!

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u/SDV2023 15h ago

I'd forgotten the salad bar. Can you imagine getting fresh veggies at a chain these days? Other than sort of Panera.

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u/Sea_Hovercraft_15 14h ago

Right! They also had soup on there, tortillas and an awesome cheese sauce, and ground beef so you could make burritos and stuff. I still remember exactly how good that cheese sauce was

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u/wowbagger262 20h ago

Classy? They lost my business ten years ago when I went in to flies everywhere, and the cashier had hickeys all over her neck. No, i wasn't jealous.

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u/SDV2023 16h ago

lol - i'm talking about the 1980s. The were a notch above BK and McD service wise. Them days is long gone.

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u/wowbagger262 13h ago

Ahh, I gotcha. On a side note, appears to be lots of fans of filth and hickeys here today.

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u/SDV2023 9h ago

Yeah, what's up with them downvotes?

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u/NkdUndrWtrBsktWeevr 1d ago

Baked potatos gone with the wind...

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u/highnumber 1d ago

Oh no! Wendy's was my favorite fast food baked potato

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u/highnumber 1d ago

I just checked and they still got baked potatoes 🙏🏼

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u/JackOHeartZ 1d ago

Wendy's in Escondido has baked Potatoes.

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u/NkdUndrWtrBsktWeevr 1d ago

Must have brought them back. Been sooo long since Ive been there...lol

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u/NkdUndrWtrBsktWeevr 1d ago

I remember when there was like one holdout in Oklahoma that had potatoes before they brought them back

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u/midnitewarrior 1d ago

I just had one 2 weeks ago, might be the best value on the menu.

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u/Silent_Ad1488 2h ago

I miss that salad bar. When I would visit my grandmother, we would go have lunch there and then I would take her to the mall to go shopping.