{"id":7736,"date":"2025-06-17T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=7736"},"modified":"2025-06-17T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:55:21","slug":"wendys-and-takis-team-up-for-the-summers-hottest-collab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=7736","title":{"rendered":"Wendy\u2019s and Takis Team Up For the Summer\u2019s Hottest Collab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When it comes to the fast food and QSR behemoths of the world, Wendy\u2019s has always felt massively overrated. Aside from being a true,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wendys?lang=en\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">troll-y poster<\/a>, they introduced classic bangers like Frosties and the budget-friendly\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.retroist.com\/p\/wendys-superbar\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Super Bar<\/a>. But they were also the first fast food chain to introduce a spicy chicken sandwich, lest we forget their place in the ongoing chicken sammy wars.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Wendy\u2019s and Takis have teamed up for a limited-time-only Takis Fuego Meal, which includes a Takis Fuego Chicken Sandwich and Takis-dusted fries. The usual Wendy\u2019s spicy chicken features a chili-lime sauce (obviously) and a corn spread and comes topped with crushed Takis. Meanwhile, the fries have been tossed in a chili lime seasoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Wendy\u2019s, we know how to keep things spicy, and we love serving up fresh, famous collaborations that tap into consumers\u2019 passion points, which made this partnership with snacking favorite Takis, a no-brainer,\u201d said Liz Geraghty, International Chief Marketing Officer for The Wendy\u2019s Company, in a press release. \u201cAs consumers lean into spicy food trends, our limited-time meal turns up the heat and flavor intensity in a way consumers can only experience at Wendy\u2019s!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/wendys-and-takis-team-up-for-the-summers-hottest-collab\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the fast food and QSR behemoths of the world, Wendy\u2019s has always felt massively overrated. Aside from being a true,\u00a0troll-y poster, they introduced classic bangers like Frosties and the budget-friendly\u00a0Super Bar. But they were also the first fast food chain to introduce a spicy chicken sandwich, lest we forget their place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[2394,2395,2396],"class_list":["post-7736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-takis","tag-takis-fuego-meal","tag-wendys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}