Wendy's Closing Hundreds of Locations Nationwide
By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on February 19, 2026
Editor's Note: Wendy's, which has two locations in Bridgeport, one in Clarksburg and many throughout West Virginia, will be closing hundreds of locations. A location list has not been released on all the stores, according to this report. Any photo used with this story is from the Wendy's Facebook page.
According to USA Today, fast-food chain Wendy's will shutter 5% to 6% of its stores nationwide in the first half of 2026 as part of an ongoing downsizing plan.
Interim CEO Ken Cook first told investors in a Nov. 7 quarterly earnings call that the company would be closing a "mid single-digit percentage" of its nearly 6,000 locations nationwide.
On a Feb. 13 earnings call, Cook said the company had already closed 28 restaurants in the last quarter of 2025 as part of a planned 5% to 6% reduction.
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