Wendy’s

This Wendy’s location offers breakfast and is open until 1AM. It is attached to a 7 – 11 which also has a gas station so can be very convenient to grab a Frosty and fill up your tank. If you’ve not been to a Wendy’s in a while, their menu has changed but what I like are the variety of side items they have. Service can be a bit slow so keep that in mind if in a hurry. Oh. they also tend to over salt the fries so request a fresh batch.

I can’t believe this place has such bad reviews. I have never had a bad experience at this Wendy’s. Maybe it is just about the timing? Anyway…
I do not eat a whole lot of fast food. Especially since I moved to Maryland. Especially here in Elkridge. Burger king is a little sketchy and I haven’t had McDonalds in years. So every blue moon, Wendy’s is definitely the place to be.
I can’t speak to the chicken sandwiches or the salads at this location since I had a bad experience at a Wendy’s in another state over both and have since given them up. But, the burgers are usually hot and juicy, the nuggets are on point, and the fries are hot and crisp with just the right amount of salt. Though the nugget sauce leaves a lot to be desired, so I am usually content to go without. I haven’t drank soda in about 8 years, so I was happy to see a green tea alternative on the menu. Is it the best green tea I’ve ever gotten at a chain restaurant? No. But it was still good. I met the manager once while he was out walking around the building picking up trash, he was nice and offered me a coupon. Guess I was in the right place at the right time.
So don’t let the bad reviews fool you. Give them a try, and when in doubt, know you can always ask them to cook your food fresh. Then at least you’ll know it’s hot.

How sad that this place got bad ratings… I actually had a great experience recently.
I had asked about fries moments before, but ended up going healthy (at Wendy’s, haha) and ordered a pecan apple chicken salad. They told me they ran out of pecans. The manager asked if I’d like extra croutons or anything. I declined. He quickly whisked me an order of small fries and gave me a mini frosty while I waited for the salad. That was nice… sabotaged my attempt to be healthy, but hey, free food :)
The manager seems to be trying – he also gave a family that was dining there several of the mini-​frosties and came out from behind the counter to check on his patrons.

I work up the street and have watched this location decline steadily over the last couple of years. The burgers aren’t bad but the rest of the menu is just awful. The chicken is always dry, the salads are usually wilted and the fries are the worst I have ever had. They are overcooked and taste like the oil has never been changed.
I understand this is a ‘fast-​food’ place but that doesn’t excuse the poor quality of the product. This is especially true since Wendy’s is the on the higher end of the price scale for ‘fast-​food.’ I dislike McDonald’s but I would rather venture up route 1 and eat there. The food may be bland but it’s better than this place and at least cooked correctly.
Save yourself the trouble and find somewhere else to eat.

2 stars because our food was cold by the time we got home! Only 3 miles away. It was about 10pm but still. I will give it another try since it’s close to homw.

I used to be a fan, years ago of this location, but it has seriously fallen. The drive-​through is sooo slow, the food is sub-​par (even for Wendy’s) and the employees couldn’t give a rats a** about your order. The last few times I’ve wandered by it (it is connected to a gas station), the whole place smells like a heavy cleaning solution, but the floors and counters still appear filthy. Avoid this one. Drive up a block to visit the Subway or other new restaurants within the area.

The only Wendy’s I’ll eat at. Great service day, night, morning, whenever. Always go here. Made a few mistakes but usually nothing serious

terrible service, got barely any fries in my large order

Been coming here for a couple of years now. Usually drop in once every few weeks. It’s always been pretty good. They keep the place clean and well-​run. My wife likes Wendy’s better than other fast food places so if we do have to get fast food, we come here.
Came in today for lunch and saw that a lady from the Howard County health department was here to give them an award for being listed as one of their Howard County 100 Healthy Restaurants. To get this award, they have to offer something nutritious, maintain a clean and healthy environment, and make your nutrition info clearly posted. I casually congratulated the manager as he walked by and he thanked me by giving me a free Frosty and a couple of those key tags that gets you a free junior frosty anytime you order something.
I’ve always had a good experience here, whether it’s dine-​in, to-​go, or drive-​through.

I know it’s a bit strange to write a review on a fast food joint such as Wendy’s, but considering the horrible experience I had and blatent false advertising, I HAD TO. Wendy’s has never been a favorite of mine. For fast food, I fancy Chick-​Fil-​A. Maybe because they actually smile at you and offer you free refills on their amazing sweet tea. I digress. WENDY’S ad campaign on their new menu enticed me. They hyped their new side items which included a sweet potatoe, chilli cheese fries and mac and cheese. Ok so I’m not about to get a sweet potatoe at Wendys. I think not. For that I go to Outback Steakhouse! The fries at Wendys are already dull to me and I doubt chilli will do anything but make dull fries soggy. Mac and cheese seemed like it would be a good choice to accompany my «Dave’s hot N’ juicy» burger. First of all, if you are going to advertise a, «HOT AND JUICY» line of burgers, then you better make sure those patties are HOT, and bitch make em’ juicy! It was neither of the two. A typical bland Wendy’s burger that we are all accostomed to. Never surprising, considering their boring unexciting name on the red sign, «OLD FASHIONED HAMBURGERS» Old fashioned? It’s 2012, I’m trying to get a new age burger up in here! I digress again. So the burger was bland, dry and had a little grease, but it by no means had any flavorful juice action that a Rays Hellburger always delivers. Being a Hellburger fan, a WENDYS burger tastes like cardboard. Now I ordered the mac and cheese thinking no one can mess that up. I mean even KRAFT is edible. Even the hospital cafeterias serve up decent enough mac and cheese. Velveeta is my guilty pleasure. But oh no… Velveeta upstaged WENDYS! And I know, who goes to a fast food place and is surprised at how horrible the mac and cheese is… well come on now… KFC’s mac and cheese is pretty decent. But I opened my little styrofoam container, and I was a bit confused. Nothing but a piss yellow gooey watery liquid with noodles FLOATING in it. I took a bite and immediately spit it out all over my steering wheel. How about the cheese sauce was FREEZING COLD and the noodles were chewy and lukewarm. I stormed into that Wendys so fast… keep in mind, this was a Wendy’s connected to an EXXON gas station so that should’ve been a red flag! (A BROTHA WAS HUNGRY) But even Royal Farms is a convenient store and it serves up THE WORLDS BEST FRIED CHICKEN. I can’t understand why they would hype up these new sides only to deliver something that is toxic to my health. Not to mention they advertise the mac and cheese as having CHEDDAR SLICES on top, when there were none. Why is Wendy’s still in business? I have NEVER had anything besides the FROSTY that is an exclamation point. Wendy’s constantly leaves me with question marks. No need for me to try their new breakfast. McDonalds and Chick Fil-​A reign supreme in that department. «You know when it’s REAL» Are you serious Wendy’s? You don’t even have real cheese on the mac and cheese. You don’t even have real butter on the sweet potatoe… DESCRIBED AS A «BUTTERY CINNAMON SPREAD» Please… Don’t patronize me Wendy’s, I know when it’s real and this right here is FRAUDULENT! False advertising and hazardous to my health! I bet them red braided pigtails aint real either! Where you get them from Wendy? The 99 cent wig shop?

I like this Wendy’s location. I’ve never been inside because the drive through service is always on point. We all know Wendy’s isn’t 5Guys but good none the less.

One star is being exceptionally nice to this particular Wendy’s.
I typically give fast food places three times to screw up before I never again return for anything. This works well as sometimes mistakes are genuine mistakes rather than sheer incompetence.
Unfortunately, incompetent is the only real way to descibe this Wendy’s. On three subsequent Saturdays I have went in and ordered a *GRILLED* Asiago Ranch Chicken Sandwich for lunch. All three times I’ve instead been given a *HOMESTYLE* Asiago Ranch Chicken Sandwich. The last two times I’ve caught the error before leaving, and they remade the sandwich, so they at least know how to fix errors. Hoewever, the people making the sandwiches most certainly don’t seem to read/​understand the instrustions that are given to them verbally or via the order printer above the grill.
I like Wendy’s sandwiches, and I think that they have the best french fries but at this point, nothing can redeem this particular store for me. When/​If I need to get something from a Wendy’s, I’ll make the longer trip down to the one in Arundel Mills. The Wendy’s in Arundel Mills has never gotten my order wrong.

This is a pretty decent Wendy’s if you ask me. It’s attached to a gas station, has a drive thru, and is located at 1 and 103 in Elkidge. It’s on my way home from work so I’ve been to the drive thru a few times and it’s insanely fast!
I like their burgers better than McDonald’s or Burger King, but it’s no Five Guys. The chicken sandwiches are okay, but nothing compared to Chick fil a. They’ve recently started serving breakfast, but I haven’t given it a try yet.

Just barely 3 stars.
I «rediscovered» Wendy’s about a year ago as I happen to pass upon this establishment most days of the week. They say «its not fast food, it’s Wendys». But we all know it’s fast food. Good fast food, but fast food nevertheless.
The burgers are delicious. The fresh, never frozen patties easily beat other fast food burgers hands down, based simply on flavor. Both the single and the double are good. The burgers are topped with lettuce, tomato, fresh onion, pickle, ketchup, mustard, and mayo. I usually don’t like too much on my burger, but all of it together really goes well with the Wendy’s patty. The fries are cooked soft and are usually not that crispy.
The burgers alone would give this place more stars. However, the interior is a bit dingy. There is usually a line, more from slow orders than massive demand. Although there is a lunch rush, I’m assuming, everyday; they still have trouble adjusting to it. Most lunch times inside, it’s like its a surprise that a bunch of people come in between 12 – 1 everyday. Workers look panicked, customers look impatient, and lines keep growing.
Most people are surprised when I rank Wendy’s burgers along with the likes of other more reputable joints such as Five Guys. But based purely on their flavorful beef patties they easily sit with the burger elite. If you can look past the dinginess, the «meh its fast food» mentality, and glacial service times, you will find yourself in the company of a darn good burger.