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One thing I liked about Wendy's is that the chain uses/used real vegetables on its burgers. Even the cheapest burger on the menu (the deluxe) has a real slice of tomato, an actual leaf or few of green lettuce, and a couple of rings of onion.

Of the places I've eaten at in recent history, they've all clearly dropped in quality and increased in price to varying degrees. However, I'm surprised to see people say things like Wendy's is the worst fast food chain because that doesn't exactly align with my experience at all. And for the record, I'm not saying it's great food, either, just that it's not the worst by far. Obviously it's a very subjective measure and there's lots of variation from location to location or even between regions and it also probably depends on the types of things you'd typically order.

To me, the worst offender of all the ones I've been to in the South and Midwest USA is Taco Bell, by far. At least for the things I would typically order, the price has gone up the most while the size and quality has gone down the most. While the service is sometimes good and sometimes bad, the food itself is consistently terrible seemingly regardless of location. No, it was never good food, but it's definitely gone from meh to yuck.

All that aside, Wendy's doesn't exactly strike me as the type of restaurant where closing stores makes the remaining ones more appealing. For that to work, it seems like the current stores would have to be too densely placed (i.e. Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks and a Starbucks in the store next to that Starbucks) OR the food would need to be good enough to actually motivate people to drive further away for it. Honestly, I know it's not the latter, and from my experience, there are fewer Wendy's than most other fast food chains, so it seems like the former wouldn't apply either.