---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-206773"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WEN"
cik: "0000030697"
company_name: "Wendy's Co"
filed_at: "2023-08-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T23:40:41.513843+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "low"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wendy's Q2 2023: U.S. restaurant margin up 200 bps, 80 global openings YTD

## Summary
- CEO cites strong same-restaurant sales and profit growth; breakfast and late-night dayparts deliver outsized growth.
- U.S. Company-operated restaurant margin increased over 200 basis points year-over-year.
- 80 global restaurant openings year-to-date; digital momentum continues.
- Company updated equity award agreements to provide continued vesting upon qualified retirement (age 60+10 years service).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-206773
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WEN
- cik: 0000030697
- company_name: Wendy's Co
- filed_at: 2023-08-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: low
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01, 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/30697/000119312523206773/0001193125-23-206773-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/30697/000119312523206773/d579227d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-206773
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-206773.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-206773.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  Wendy's Co reported financial results for second quarter ended July 2, 2023.
  - Period: second quarter ended July 2, 2023
  - Result: reported results
  source text: On August 9, 2023, The Wendy’s Company (the “Company”) issued a press release reporting its financial results for the fiscal quarter ended July 2, 2023 and other information.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/30697/000119312523206773/0001193125-23-206773-index.htm

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