Hamburger Chain Closing 350 Restaurants — So Why Is Katy Perry's Manager Poking Fun?

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A travel to abstraction by vocalist Katy Perry successful April saw a fast-food elephantine poke amusive astatine her flight. With the edifice institution announcing a bid of store closures, Perry's manager is making definite fans notice.

Here's the communicative six months successful the making.

Fast-food giant Wendy's Co (NASDAQ:WEN) announced third-quarter results connected Friday with net per stock and gross some beating expert estimates.

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While the institution bushed expert estimates for some cardinal figures for a 2nd consecutive quarter, determination was much quality that Wendy's shared connected its league call.

Interim CEO Ken Cook announced Wendy's volition beryllium closing betwixt 200 and 350 of the chain's astir 6,000 U.S. locations, arsenic reported by CNN.

The unnamed locations to adjacent are ones that Cook said to beryllium "consistently underperforming." Store closures volition statesman this twelvemonth and into 2026.

"Closures of underperforming units are expected to boost income and profitability astatine adjacent locations," Cook said.

The store closures travel arsenic Wendy's announced U.S. same-store income were down 4.7% year-over-year successful the quarter, compared to affirmative income for fast-food rivals similar McDonald's and Burger King.

Cook highlighted the company's caller chickenhearted tenders, called "Tendys,” and said request was beardown up of nationalist advertising.

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Stories astir restaurants closing wouldn't usually beryllium thing a vocalist oregon their manager would stock connected their societal media profiles, but that's conscionable what happened with Perry.

Perry's manager Bradford Cobb shared a communicative astir the Wendy's closures to his Instagram communicative recently, arsenic reported by Billboard.

The station by Cobb apt comes successful enactment of Perry, who was made amusive of by the societal media relationship of Wendy's backmost successful April.

On X, the authoritative Wendy's relationship shared posts astir Petty flying to abstraction with captions of "I kissed the crushed and I liked it" and different station asking, "Can we nonstop her back?"

The posts divided societal media with immoderate calling it playful banter, portion others said Wendy's should apologize.

Wendy's did not apologize for the comments.

Perry was 1 of respective women who took portion successful the archetypal all-woman formation to abstraction since 1963, completed by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova. Perry was aboard a spacecraft from Blue Origin, the abstraction institution founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Lauren Sánchez, who is present joined to Bezos, was besides aboard the humanities abstraction trip.