Wendy's: New peanut butter sauce for salad

[twinturbo]

Went back to our local Wendy's today. No dressing there took DS1 for a Frosty.

[twinturbo]

We've been doing our weekly shake there for a couple of weeks now. *knock on wood* If only I can get DS1 to switch to their burgers.

[CMdeux]

They reportedly have the replacement spicy dressing in now (sans peanut) but they are putting it INTO cups since it isn't individually prepacked yet--

honestly, nice save for them.  I thanked the manager for their trouble and reassured them that it matters when I was in last week.

[nameless]

so...here in Toronto I saw a spicy-cashew salad at McDonald's


...discuss...

[Jessica]

Went to Wendy's on Friday and they said they still have the dressing. I'm wondering now if it is the reformulated kind because it sounds like it's been replaced company-wide. I'll have to call and ask for a manager.

[CMdeux]

What I learned, shooting the breeze as I waited to grab our (to go) order:

Yes, they now have the dressing again-- I commented that that was quick, no peanut in it now, I guess-- Yes, that's correct, and it's nice that they have the replacement out already, but it wasn't possible to get it in individual portions, so it comes in a BIG BAG of dressing, and the store employees have to portion it into solo cups at the start of the day. 

I expressed appreciation for the effort to keep peanut off the menu.

(Yeah, not thrilled with the cashew thing either, but at least that is a solid and not a liquid/gel/emulsion.  )

[Jessica]

hm that's interesting because during the conversation (in which I had to really explain slowly that I only wanted to make sure there was no cc but that I was not actually ordering the salad) I could have sworn she mentioned people 'getting it ready first thing'.

[CMdeux]

I think that still tallies with what I heard, Jessica-- could mean "first thing" in the morning, they have to do the prep for it, or "first thing" meaning that it was a top priority to get a similar dressing back on the menu since it was a popular salad-and-dressing combo (seemingly the most popular of the new menu items).

Meaning that it was a high priority-- and that employees now have work to do to portion it ("prepare" it) for individual consumer sale.