Wendy's Dave's Way

As of November 10, 2026, Wendy's has not published prices for a 2027 menu. Prices vary by location. On November 5, 2026 the company announced Dave's Way, which the official blog calls a multi-year strategy to improve customer traffic, strengthen restaurant economics, and return Wendy's to sustainable growth.

What Dave's Way is

CEO Bob Wright's November 5 blog says the customer goal is craveable food, clear value, and consistently great experiences, and strengthening the core menu. Restaurant Dive put US comparable sales at -5.7 percent in the third quarter. Wright was hired earlier in 2026.

Menu changes in test

On the third-quarter call, as reported by USA Today and Restaurant Dive on November 6, 2026, Wendy's is testing thicker, crispier bacon, a richer, creamier Frosty, whole-leaf lettuce on sandwiches, and improved salads. The menu is meant to focus on core items and remove lower-volume items. Improvements scale as they are ready, resulting in a fully refreshed menu experience in 2027. No list of cut items and no 2027 calendar date were published. No 2027 item prices were published.

Breakfast

Breakfast is now location-specific. It is optional for all US Wendy's restaurants. Restaurants that dropped breakfast saw better lunch, dinner, and late-night profit, and many fully recaptured breakfast sales. Wendy's estimates up to $200 million in restaurant-level EBITDA as that optionality expands. The company said it will still support operators who keep breakfast.

TheStreet and Yahoo, November 6 and 7, 2026, said breakfast was 5.5 percent of sales in the second quarter, compared with 8 percent in the second quarter of 2020. Second-quarter US traffic was -12.5 percent, partly from reduced or eliminated breakfast hours at some locations. A few hundred locations had already opted out before November 5. There is no public list of restaurants dropping breakfast and no date for a chain-wide end, because there is no chain-wide end.

To see if a restaurant still serves breakfast, open the Wendy's app in the morning or call the store. This page cannot look up your address.

Why fans are upset

Parade and Allrecipes, reached here only as search snippets because the pages were blocked, quoted social posts: "The breakfast Baconator was literally the only reason I ate there," "Don't take my biscuits and gravy," and "Their breakfast is literally the only reason I still go to Wendy's." Those lines are reported fan reaction, not a survey. The Sun's August 10, 2026 article is an older quarter and is not used here.

The company side

USA Today on November 5 also said Wendy's rejected a $1.4 billion offer from Trian and Nelson Peltz and adopted a shareholder-rights plan. Franchisee Meritage Hospitality, which filed for Chapter 11 in September, closed dozens of locations in October. Those notes are corporate context, not menu prices.

Veterans Day

The Wendy's blog on November 2, 2026 offers a free Dave's Single on November 11, 2026 for veterans and active-duty military at participating US restaurants. Order inside or in the drive-thru and identify yourself. No purchase is necessary. It is not valid for digital, delivery, or kiosk orders, and it is not a combo. The roundup is on the Veterans Day page.

Current menu pages stay separate: the Wendy's hub, the Baconator, Dave's Single combo, and the Biggie Bag. Official calories for the current menu, including Dave's Single at 560 and the Baconator at 890, are on the Wendy's nutrition calculator. That file does not add a 2027 price. Prices vary by location.

Pros and cons

Pros

• The November 5 strategy, the test foods, and the breakfast rule come from Wendy's and same-week reporting.
• No 2027 price is invented.

Cons

• There is no list of restaurants dropping breakfast and no 2027 menu date.
• The fan quotes are snippets from pages this check could not open.