Wendy's is over!

[Cattledog]

Fast-food chain Wendy’s is the target of social media backlash after it was discovered that the chain has donated over $440,000 to Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. The hashtag #WendysIsOverParty began to trend in support of boycotting the popular restaurant.

[Doodley]

1. Fuck them!

[Stallion]

2. YUCK

[fishwax]

3. It was a franchisee (of several locations), not the chain itself

[sweetloukillbot]

4. I'm getting sick of the Internet not understanding franchises

Not saying Wendy's owner is a saint, but they're getting dragged because of a franchise owner.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. I'd heard of the same "confusion" about Home Depot.......

As I now understand it, the "corporation" is not the same as the founder (the "corporation" is not "the bad guy" - the founder is, and no longer involved with the "corporation"
).

So, I'm gonna' wait to see what's up with this, then I'll support those that share the same visions that I do.

Thanks for the input!

[sweetloukillbot]

7. I'm seeing it about a Popeye's franchise owner in Michigan as well nt

[Ms. Toad]

20. It is even farther removed.

Dave Thomas is the founder.

Wendys is a publically traded corporation - owned by the shareholders. I don't have any direct knowledge of their donations, or of the donations made by the top officers in the corporation, but you can look up donations to national campaigns.

The publiclly traded corporation allows individuals or smaller corporations to operate the restaurants (generally in a defined geographic area), under the name, trade dress, etc. of Wendy's umbrella.

It was someone in the final category (someone with a license to operate local restaurants) who made significant donations to Trump.

That person has no control over Wendy's outside of the restaurants they operate under license - looks like generally in Texas.

[Celerity]

18. well, there are probably 5 to 10 other previous threads where the same misinformation was put up

and corrected, and then it was onto the next one

and the next one

it is the subject that never dies

[oldsoftie]

21. Yes! Its willfull stupidity. See something you want to see & ignore the WHOLE story.

[LisaM]

5. Thank you for clarifying.

I hate knee-jerk reactions to this type of information (not that I've been to a Wendy's in years myself, but I don't like news being twisted).

[Dial H For Hero]

8. That makes a *bit* of a difference, to say the least.

[NotHardly]

27. If you try a bit, it does not take much digging to find out the Chain itself does in fact

contribute massive amounts of money to Republicans... common DU, you can do a google search instead of just jacki... skipping off.

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[maxrandb]

30. That's horseshit! This CEO "uses" and makes his wealth under the Wendy's Trademark

Not holding Wendy's accountable is like not holding the mobs accountant liable for money laundering.

I'm fucking sick and tired of corporations advertising on hate platforms, but saying; "well, my ads don't run on Limbaugh or Hannitty's show.

Fuck Wendy's. They approved this fuckers franchise. They gave their name for him to use. They made him his money that he donated to fascists.

If Wendy's gave a shit, they'd cancel his franchise.

Until then, I hope they go out of fucking business.

There must be consequences for associating with this shitshow.

Fox Sports?

Same damn fucking thing.

Universities that broadcast their sports on stations that give us nothing but hate?

Same damn fucking thing.

Not boycotting EVERY GOD DAMN Wendy's would be like buying a Volkswagen during WWII

[fishwax]

39. he also owns pizza huts and taco bells, for the record

feel free to boycott 'em all, I don't care. But it's not horseshit to point out the difference between a franchisee and the corporation itself.

"Not boycotting EVERY GOD DAMN Wendy's would be like buying a Volkswagen during WWII"

Lol. Well, not exactly, but by all means, you do you. I'm certainly not going to try to convince anyone they should be going to wendy's.

[Celerity]

9. this has been shown to only be a franchisee already on multiple threads on here, not the

actual entire chain (not that I have ever eaten that slop, so do not care either way other than to say fuck the Rethug donor)

[Captain Zero]

22. So once we figure that out we can't have a website to identify those franchises?

I mean if it's 5 wendy's locations in New Orleans I don't go there, but the people in New Orleans should have the option to know that the owner of those 5 locations is screwing with us. If I found out it is the owner of the location two miles from me, I should have the option to not fund him.

[Celerity]

29. I did this on some of the previous threads, here it is again

here is a map of the franchises Muy! (the CEO of which donated to Rump) operates

https://muycompanies.com/locations/

go to the link for interactivity

[Wounded Bear]

11. Haven't eaten there in years...but then, I don't do fast food in general.

I did try the Impossible Burger a week or so ago, and it was fine, I guess. But like I said, I haven't done a fast food burger in years, so not much to compare it to.

[IADEMO2004]

12. Spend a moment to consider employees too.

[Gothmog]

13. I will boycott this chain

[Indykatie]

14. Did Everyone Read Explanation on Franchisees? Why Boycott Chain for Action of Individual Owners?

[Amishman]

38. Doubtful, easier just to get angry and demand a boycott

The fact that these are individual franchises and the parent corporation has no control over it seems to be completely missed.

[yaesu]

15. yep, its a franchise thing plus many corporations hedge their bets and donate to both parties. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Seems Billionaire Nelson Peltz can't utter 10 words without praising Trump

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Peltz

Contemporary of Trump, Brooklyn born and raised, educated at UPenn/Wharton, non-executive chairman of Wendy's.

[alp227]

33. Not to be confused with Nelson Muntz

HA-ha!

[DIVINEprividence]

17. Wendy's are dog shit burgers

Have a Fatburger. Owned by Magic Johnson. Portion of profits goes to help the AA community

[AlexSFCA]

19. I need to know 100% how real it is, I love Wendy's

it’s been my to go drive through during the pandemic and would be hard to give up their chili. Would they do equivalent donation to Biden?

[Midnightwalk]

26. Couldn't handle the temptation

I’d love to get my fingers in some Wendy’s chili.

I can’t put my finger on it but their chili is nothing to thumb your nose at.

I’ll also point out they were one of the first fast food places to embrace the computer revolution and switch from analog to digital chili.

Actually I like their chili too

[Beartracks]

37. Apparently it was one franchise owner, not the who!e Wendy's chain...

... according to other posts in this discussion.

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[Midnightwalk]

23. Couldn't handle the temptation.

Edit: meant as reply to post above

[RoccoRyg]

24. Take it easy

I prefer to take it easy on the boycotts. If you boycott every franchise that donates money to a Republican, pretty soon you won't be able to shop anywhere. Plus, these things mostly hurt the employees, who often make poverty wages already, while the employers will be perfectly fine.

Another problem is it could affect the wrong people. When Rush Limbaugh attracted controversy for libeling Sandra Fluke, he lost many radio advertisers. Those same advertisers also ended up not buying time on liberal radio shows too, costing them money as well. Stephanie Miller was a prime example.

Currently, the only business I boycott is Chik-Fil-A. I will not give them money under any circumstances, so they won't donate it to anti-LGTBQ groups. I'll get my chicken sandwiches from Popeyes instead.

[orleans]

25. does this mean taco bell & pizza hut are over too? COME ON!

"Business Insider reported in May that James Bodenstedt — the CEO of Muy Cos., a franchisee of Wendy's, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut — had donated thousands of dollars to Trump's campaign, including a $200,000 donation to the Trump Victory PAC in March."

https://www.businessinsider.com/wendysisoverparty-wendys-slammed-over-franchisees-trump-donations-2020-6

[orleans]

31. here's a link to a map showing locations owned by

the company whose ceo donated to trump

https://muycompanies.com/locations/

[miyazaki]

32. Trump drinks water. Boycott water.

I love this place.

[TNNurse]

34. This is a struggle for me personally.

When I was getting chemo, I lost a lot of my tastebuds (they came back). I could taste sweet but not salt at all. Frosty's from Wendy's helped keep me alive. I lost 50 lbs anyway. I have never cared for their food in general but owe a lot to Frosty's.

[tiredtoo]

35. Haven't ate wendys in years

Now a couple other places i personally boycott... Papa Johns pizza and Chick-fil-a . In reality we could probably boycott all large franchises including places like Home Depot, Menards and so on. Wealthy folks donate to republicans.

[JI7]

36. They wont be over as long as People like their Food. Same with CHik Fila . I think the reason it

hurt Papa Johns was because the food isn't that good so it was easy to boycott them.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. Thanks to the recent ruling last week

can't organizations refuse to disclose who donated to them and/or how much??????

The reality of the boycotts on corporations, is that most of the CEO's and owners, are die hard RepubliCONS.
But most of them have the sense to keep their mouth's shut.
If we started boycotting corporations or franchise owners for being RepubliCONs, we would soon not be able to buy anything.....

[LovingA2andMI]

41. Good!

Wendy's food has sucked since Dave died. Won't miss them.

[warmfeet]

42. Yep.

Supporting the orange asshole should be a death knell. To hell with every single supporter of this asshole. Fuck every last one of them.

[Dfwguy99]

43. Searchable database for franchise locations owned by this guy

I went to wayback machine Website and found the link that shows locations owned by this guy.
If one of you knows how to take it and reload as a searchable database, that would be great and helpful. The company is “ muy brands” and he owns 800+ taco bell, pizza hut and wendy’s
https://web.archive.org/web/20180823031048/http://muycompanies.com/locations/