Wendy's - Pittsburgh

It 's 10:30pm on a cool autumn Saturday night, fresh from the bars. I 'm bored. Wendy 's? We arrive by foot to Butler and 40th to the red monolith, a beacon of mediocrity and affordability in a sea of drink spots and hipster eateries. The drive through is packed to the end of the lot. Looks like the inside is empty, must be closed after 10. Call Tim to drive over here instead and we can hop in the drive through. The 4 of us shiver like junkies, waiting in the corner of the parking lot. We see the tallest could easily reach and steal sign letters. A silver civic pulls up and Tim gets out. We embrace. He 's the last member of our 2 year reunion. Are you hungry? Yeah. One more car enters the drive through line. 'Hi welcome to Wendy 's, what can I get for you? ' Can I get a 6 piece nugget? 'What sauce? ' BBQ. 'Anything else? ' Yeah, could I get a 10 piece spicy nugget meal with Dr. Pepper? 'What sauce? ' What sauce? Why are you translating, he 's the one driving. We laugh. Ranch. 'Okay is that all? ' 3 seconds of silence... 'Okay your total is $11.38, please pull forwar ' Uhh actually could I add a 4 for 4 double stack with a frosty? Furious cancelling and reentering ensues. 'Could you repeat that? ' Can I get a 4 for 4 double stack? 'That doesn 't exist. ' What? Yeah they changed it so you can only get that with the biggie bag, you have to get a junior cheeseburger. Oh, junior cheeseburger then please. 'Sauce? ' BBQ. 'Drink? ' Vanilla frosty. Silence. 'We 're close to closing, no frosty 's. ' Silence. Okay sprite then. 'Alright is that all? ' Brandon, do you want anything? Nah. No that 's all. 'Your total is $15.83, please pull forward. 'We move forward next to the window. So close yet so far. The exchange looks like the Creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel Tim 's left arm span is barely enough to hand his credit card over to the worker leaning half out the window. She 's miffed. We get our food in a similar matter, mission success. 11:05pm the car loops back to the parking lot with our loot, the drive through queue hasn 't gotten any shorter. Hey where 's my sandwich? I don 't think you get one with your nugget meal. You can have mine, I wasn 't actually hungry. Yeah we ate like 3 hours ago. We eat. Let 's pull back in and order 5 frosty 's. Without hesitation we 're in line again. After talking and joking, things have gotten real. We 're almost at the order station and there are cars behind. Let 's spare her. And we drive off into the night.An hour and a half later, we 've said our goodbyes. I make the lonely walk back to my car. The night is cold but I begin to smile as I pass a familiar sight Wendy 's. The lights are now off, the frosty machine is comfortably retired for the night, and the tired workers have all gone home. It 's 12:30am. There are still 4 cars waiting in the drive through line. I grin wider as they slowly take turns chancing the order station and giving up. More cars turn into the lot.5/5 Worker was a saint all things considered.

Half the time I've been to this location their credit card machines are down (yet they somehow are accepting mobile orders). Also they don't provide receipts. Something shady is going on here!

My chili is cold! I just bought food from here and opened it up about 3 minutes after purchasing and the chili is barely room temperature. This is completely unacceptable. This is actually a food safety health hazard. Also my order was wrong. Everything is basically room temperature at most. I have been to this location many times because it's one of the only places to go late at night and almost every single time my order is either bad or wrong. I'm going to make a phone call to corporate tomorrow.

Says it’s open until 1am on Tuesday. Went at 10:30 pm. Stayed at speaker for 15 minutes. Drove around and saw one person inside. No one came to window. Left. They don’t usually get your order right here but they try more than the other ones around here…. Usually…

Worst Wendy’s in the world. Has been drive thru only since covid in 2020, yes it’s still drive thru to this day. So I try to utilize the drive thru and they say they can’t take any orders. Never going to a Wendy’s again. I’ll get my high blood pressure from McDonalds.