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I went down to the grand opening of Blackpool's new Wendy's
Lancashire Post
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10/04/2025
I went down to the grand opening of Blackpool's brand new Wendy's on The Promenade
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Hi, my name is Jack Marshall. I'm a digital food and drink reporter with the Blackpool
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Gazette and today I had the privilege of being able to go down to the promenade in Blackpool
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in the sunshine to enjoy what was a pretty special day with the opening of the new Wendy's
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on the promenade itself. Lovely view, lovely weather right under the Blackpool Tower. It
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was the absolutely perfect setting for the opening of Blackpool's latest fast food restaurant
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and it's an iconic brand. It's a Wendy's, it's famous for American culture, it's famous for
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Square Burgers and their Frosties which are kind of like ice cream slash milkshake things which
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kind of meet in between the two of those. So I was really keen to go down and try it out,
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see what it was like, get a taste of the atmosphere, get a taste of the food itself obviously as well
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and just see what the buzz is like and that buzz was growing by the minute as soon as I got there
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about 10 o'clock before the restaurant opened at half past because Wendy's themselves had promised
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that if anyone was in the queue before their half 10 opening time they would be able to get a free
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burger and try it out and it created a massive buzz. There was music playing, there were people queuing up,
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they were having a great time in the sunshine ready to try out a Wendy's burger and I was really
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enjoying being able to speak to people, get the vibe, find out what they were most looking forward
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to trying from what is essentially a brand new fast food chain with their new presence in the town.
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So yeah, really excited to kind of go down and try it out. Here's how it went. Cheers.
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,
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This was a moment countless people turned out in Blackpool for the opening of the brand new Wendy's
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right on the promenade and as you can see, plenty of people were keen to grab themselves a free burger
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under the Blackpool Tower.
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So guys, what's brought you down here today?
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The new stop.
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Yeah.
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It's going to be a good one.
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I don't know, I hope so.
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I've never had it before.
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You've never had it before?
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I've never had it before, no.
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So there's curiosity, you're trying something new, what about it?
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Yeah, you see it a lot on telly and that, don't you know, like American TV shows.
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It's a classic American brand, isn't it?
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Yeah, that's the thing.
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So it's iconic in America, so we might as well try it.
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Do you know anything about it?
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Like, got me into it?
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I know the burgers are square, that's it.
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It's about it.
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Literally.
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You've got the famous Frosty Fingers with a dessert, haven't they?
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Yeah, apparently you're meant to stick your chips in it, so I'll need to try that.
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You're going to have a bath?
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Yeah, I'll give it a go.
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What, better way to start a Thursday?
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Oh, definitely.
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So, Colin, what's brought you down here today?
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Eh, just Wendy's, the burgers, to try it, see if it's better than McDonald's and Burger
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Guy, and I hope it's a first-class start, because I'm going to love the burgers.
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Yeah.
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And do you know anything about it before?
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Have you heard about it before?
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Eh, I've never heard it before.
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Eh, I used to stay in Scotland, so hopefully it's good, hopefully it's amazing.
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Do you know it as like an American brand?
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Are you intrigued to find out what it's like?
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Have you heard of it ever before?
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I've heard it before, but eh, I knew it's been American.
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Yeah.
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And do you know anything about it?
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Nah, nobody's right.
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Have you heard of the square burgers they do, apparently?
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Aye.
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Yeah, are you going to try those?
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I'm going to try the cinnamon donuts as well.
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Yeah.
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So you've got your order all sorted out?
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Aye.
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Brilliant stuff.
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Great.
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Before long, the store was open for business as the first customer used his voucher, headed
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up to the counter, and managed to pick up his free burger.
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He was soon joined by a huge queue of people, all keen to try the new Wendy's, see what all
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the fuss was about, grab their free food and enjoy a pretty nice open space, dead clean,
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dead fresh, dead new, and it seemed to be impressing a lot of the locals.
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So after getting a taste and a bit of a feel for the buzz around the place as people went
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in, I decided I had to try the food for myself as well.
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I'd never had Wendy's before.
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I was going into it with plenty of expectation because it looked really good.
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The smell in there was really nice.
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The stuff people were coming out with looked delicious.
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So I thought, when in Rome, let's have a bash.
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Let's try it out.
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Here's how it went.
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Now, Wendy's were good enough to provide me with a bit of a tasting menu, a little bit
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of everything.
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Obviously, I couldn't manage to eat it all, but I thought I'd have a bash at everything,
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starting with one of their classic burgers, which was delicious.
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Really, really impressed by this.
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It was kind of supplemented nicely by some sides.
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I had these little chicken nugget style things, which they came in two different varieties,
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kind of regular and a spicy.
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This is the spicy one.
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That was really nice.
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Absolutely delicious.
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And then there were a couple of Frosties for me to try as well, the vanilla and the chocolate.
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Both excellent.
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Plus, they had these loaded fries, which one of them was chili and the other one was bacon
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and cheese.
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Both of them were really, really nice in their own right.
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A nice touch.
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Not usually the kind of thing you get at a fast food place, but really excellent additions
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as well.
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Right, guys, that about wraps it up for my day at Wendy's.
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Really, really pleased to be able to go down there and just kind of get a vibe for the
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whole thing.
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People turned out in their droves.
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There was a huge queue out the door, which just goes to show the excitement for the new
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store, the new branch on the promenade.
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And when I got in there myself, I must say I was really impressed by the quality of the
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food, the kind of heftiness of the portions, just how delicious it all was.
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That was really, really, really not surprising, but not something you'd inherently expect
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from fast food, I was just really taken by how good it was.
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I definitely think I'd lean towards that 100% over something like Mackey's or Burger
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King's.
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So yeah, overall, really impressed.
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Really good day.
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Nice to see people turn out in force.
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So yeah, hopefully everyone who turned up had a wonderful day.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Let us know if you're going down to the Wendy's in the next few days.
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Let us know what you think.
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Let us know if it's your new go-to spot.
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But apart from that, have a lovely day.
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Thanks for watching.
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Cheers.
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