Wendy's International Inc.

Wendy's Flatbread Goodies: Not Exactly Flatbread. Kind of a Sandwich. A Bit Healthier.

If you could take a snapshot of fast food menus from 10-15 years ago and compare them with menus today, it'd be glaringly obvious that on-the-go joints are making a push toward healthier menus. Salads have acquired more real estate. Calorie counts are starting to appear to assist in guilting people ... More >>

The Chicken Nugget Bonanza You Never Asked For

Until recently, the chicken nugget biz was a two-player game. McDonald's ruled the roost with their all-powerful tempura style, while Wendy's occupied a smaller cult market with a more "breadcrumby" version. Both have their merits and their die-hard loyalists, but now two new competitors have enter ... More >>

A Girl Named Richard

Ranking Dollar Menu Burgers: Don't Deny it, You Know You Eat Them

The City of Ate has spent the past week parsing and pummeling through the Dallas burger scene. We can all personally attest to the wide girth of our coverage, which includes buns, off-the-beaten-path burgers, Korean burgers, smackdowns and more. See Also: Burger Week But, if we're really going to ... More >>

Burger Smackdown: Dive Bar Class, Club Schmitz Versus Adair's Saloon

I love Club Schmitz. I think it's one of the best bars in Dallas, and as far as I can tell the hipsters have yet to ruin the place with Sunday night karaoke. This burger, though, needs some work if it's going to stand up to the history that's swaying the ceilings and rotting the floors. When actress ... More >>

Chili's To Improve Conditions For Pigs, But They're Not In A Hurry To Do It

Dallas-based Brinker International has joined a growing list of restaurants that have pledged to improve conditions for pigs in their supply chain. The group owns Chili's, which is responsible for 1,500 casual restaurants known for their baby back ribs. The new policy also applies to Maggiano's and ... More >>

Dallas' (and the Rest of America's) Love of Fast Food, Visualized in 'Beefspace'

That's a map. In the northwest quadrant is Dallas-Fort Worth, represented by a spattering of magenta (Jack In the Box), yellow (Wendy's) and many other bright colors in the midst of the giant periwinkle cloud (Sonic). I think the forecast calls for tator tot rain all day. HuffPo originally reported ... More >>

The Secret Chain Restaurant and Fast-Food Shame of an Englishman

You see all those chain restaurants, Dallas? All those bright shiny lights, beckoning you in to eat products of a questionable providence at a price so reasonable there's no need to go home and time-consumingly construct a meal for your baying, hungry, ungrateful family? You grew up around them (the ... More >>

The College Diet: Breaking Down the Food at SMU's Cafeteria

America's future leaders are piling back to their schools, and we're honoring them with how-to's, survival guides and personal stories of failure from Observer staff. That's right, It's College Week. See also: The Top 20 Dorm Room Posters Of All Time As Nick and I walked into SMU's RFOC Cafeteria ( ... More >>

Wendy's Japan Just Goes Ahead and Adds $16 Lobster and Caviar Sandwich

Not to be out done by French Laundry's sauteed fillet of Atlantic hake, or Noma's tartar and sorrel with juniper and tarragon, or Carl's Jr's Big Carl, Japan Wendy's has added a burger with lobster. And a lobster sandwich topped with caviar. Each is about $16 (US), and can be enjoyed elegantly with ... More >>

Wendy's Is Giving Away Frosties to Redheads Today

Wendy's is really excited about the remodel of some of its restaurants, and we're certainly happy for them. They're calling it a "completely updated dining experience." This Monday, July 23, they're even throwing a little party at their redesigned Farmers Branch location (4169 LBJ Freeway) and the ... More >>

One Hundred Million Tacos With A Side Of Burlesque: This Week In Where The Hell Is My Lipator

Summer is picking up and that means the arrival of tomatoes that taste like nature intended. Not those lifeless cottony numbers picked while green and sprayed with ethylene, but those glorious summer orbs ripened right on the vine and delicious enough to be eaten all on their own. It's a good time t ... More >>

The Texas Farm Bureau Applauds Domino's Support for Gestation Crates, Orders a Pizza

Confining sows in small gestation crates has come under great scrutiny lately. Major companies like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and most recently the nation's second largest grocery chain, Safeway, have announced a phase-out of pork supplied by farms that use gestation crates. However, recent ... More >>

The Egg is Taking Over the Food World

One of my greatest culinary achievements was borne out of necessity. I was in a late-morning haze and needed sustenance, and I found some leftover chana masala and some rice in the fridge. While the rice and curry was heating in the microwave (stay classy, self), I fried an egg in pan coated (OK, dr ... More >>

The Five Most Annoying Current Fast Food Trends

​Caught an article over on Adage this morning on Domino's revamp of their "cheesy bread." In an attempt to capture what marketing executives must think are idiot foodies, the pizza chain is selling "gourmet" varieties of cheese bread (with spinach and feta and bacon and jalapeño).After blacking o ... More >>

Wendy Reves's Son and the Fine Art of Trying to Keep the Court From Tossing His DMA Suit

Dallas Museum of ArtPortrait of Mrs. Emery Reves by Graham Sutherland, 1978​When first we noted in March that Wendy Russell Reves's only child, Arnold Leon Schroeder Jr., was suing the Dallas Museum of Art and former UT Southwestern president Kern Wildenthal, it was, for a moment, Big News -- big ... More >>

My Fit Foods: Lose Weight by not Eating

My Fit Foods: Losing Weight by Buying Food You Don't Want to Eat

The typical Cheap Bastard response when confronted by purveyors of healthy food.​My Fit Foods is what would happen if Eatzi's ate Jenny Craig. It's a wall of refrigerators filled with premade, preportioned, ready-to-wave, better-for-you-than-horking-down-a-stuffed-crust-pizza meals. The goal o ... More >>

Whitt's End: 5.20.11

​ Whether you've reached the end of your rope or merely the end of your week, welcome to Whitt's End: *Mavs got outplayed last night, plain and simple. The Rangers' loss to the Royals was more painful. Texas was one pitch from winning until .230-hitting Mike Aviles capped a gutsy 11-pitch at ... More >>

Wendy Reves's Sole Heir Files Federal Suit to Retrieve Mother's Art Collection (Left to DMA) and Money (Given to UT Southwestern)

Dallas Museum of ArtPortrait of Mrs. Emery Reves by Graham Sutherland, 1978​A federal lawsuit filed in Dallas on Friday has all the makings of a Vanity Fair feature story, down to the famous names who make cameo appearances -- among them, President Franklin Roosevelt, Coco Chanel and Winston Churc ... More >>

Fast Food Burger Ads vs. Reality: The Sad, Limp, Under-Lettuced Truth

Photos by Patrick MichelsWith or without a slick ad photo, these Wendy's Double Baconators sell themselves. We all know those fast food ad wizards have their tricks -- fake water droplets on the fresh red tomatoes, onions peeking just so out from under a perfectly thick sesame bun. Of course, noth ... More >>

Because We Can't Go Too Long
Without an In-N-Out Reference

​In-N-Out's local opening may still be months away, but fast food fans willing to drive to Austin can feast on a sandwich being touted by burger bloggers as an Animal Style alternative. 4x4 Animal Style a contributor to the website GrubGrade who presumably knows his In-N-Out patties, is calli ... More >>

A New Day Dawns

Noah W. BaileyHistory is upon us.​Chick-Fil-A's Spicy Chicken SandwichDude Factor: 10, or Foghorn Leghorn, on a scale of 1 (Camilla), to 10.A few weeks back it came to our attention that Chick-Fil-A was taking reservations for free VIP samples of its new spicy chicken sandwich, a fact that sent wa ... More >>

Ten Food Names that Are Designed to Kill You

The KFC Double Down, which is what you bet to eat it.​Last week, like the Doomsday Clock in Dr. Strangelove, the KFC Web site started a countdown to the release of their new and terrifying sandwich.The big reveal came on Monday. The sandwich is two fried chicken breasts sandwiching bacon, cheese ... More >>

And The Winner Is...

​What can you say about a week where one commenter uses the word "yum," another lets "yucky" slip into a post and someone else writes "to die for"? Oh, and to top it off, djs added the phrase "I like beets" to a story.Weeks like this make us want to drink distilled beet juice.OK--so it wasn't suc ... More >>

Pairing Off: Wendy's Spicy Chicken Nuggets

Patrick Michels/Flickr user Photos8.comOh, no--the artist is entering a new and darker phase.​Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food.National restaurant chains know how to stretch the limits of almost any word. Olive Garden tries to sell us o ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips

​Ah, the very nearly late Arthur Treacher's.The chain was named for a well-known English actor, counted the original fish and chips house as its own and had the support of Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame, not the one from Second City). And there was a time when Arthur Treacher's had a solid reputatio ... More >>

Pairing Off: Wendy's Chili

Each week, Pairing Off attempts to find just the right bottle of wine to go with ordinary food. Patrick Michels​Deriding fast foods is somewhat de rigueur on blogs such as this. We're supposed to appreciate the efforts of chefs and skilled short order cooks as opposed to the corporate ethic, r ... More >>

Boston Burger Has Little to Do Wth Boston and Everything to Do With Burgers: Delicious, Sloppy and On the Cheap

Short Orders: Sambuca (Uptown)

Sambuca2120 McKinney Ave.214-744-0820Sambuca is still around.It still has one of the more sophisticated courtyard spaces in Uptown and still brings in live entertainment. But the room appears somehow stale.As a restaurant slips into middle age--about four years without a makeover--pressure builds on ... More >>

Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers

Hey Wendy, you can have your stinkin' fast food burger

Alligator Café

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The Sandlot screens in Addison

Cheap Bastard

Mama's Daughters' Diner

Food just like Mother used to make, only better

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Rancho Del Art

Out of Time, Out of a Job, Out of the Country

Pere Ubu

Why I Hate Women (Smog Veil)

Otherworldly Feast

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Comedy 101

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Howl at the Moon

Or just enjoy a traditional Japanese Otsukimi

Li'l Cap'n Travis

...In All Their Splendor (Glurp)

American Beauty

Landscapes, from north to south

Renoir the Pinhead

DMA shakes off the curse of Wendy Reves and mounts an impressive Renoir show

Peter Panned

You could Return to Never Land, but why waste the trip?

We Never Close

Or so say the proponents of 24-hour child care. The facts say otherwise.

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