Fast food chain Wendy’s has not apologized for trolling pop singer Katy Perry for her space ride via its official X account, but it did say it “has a ton of respect for&#8221; her.
The six women who made up the all-female flight crew have been getting mixed reviews ever since they boarded Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission on Monday for an 11-minute ride. Perry, TV personality Gayle King, and Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez were among the women who took the flight, which they and many media outlets insisted was of historic significance. 
But there’s also been pushback, with members of the public and some celebrities saying the space ride was nothing more than regular space tourism with a female-heavy roster. Wendy’s social media account got in on the jokes.
The X account Pop Crave announced on Monday, “Katy Perry has returned from space,” prompting the people running Wendy’s social media accounts to reply, “Can we send her back.”
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Another post on Monday shared from the Wendy’s account said, “When we said women in stem this isn’t what we meant.”
The posts got a lot of laughs from followers and some criticism. One source who is “close to the situation” told <a href="https://people.com/katy-perry-deserves-apology-from-wendys-blue-origin-comments-exclusive-source-11717191?taid=68013ed1cbec1800016b41dd&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com">People</a> that Wendy’s should issue Perry an apology. “This wasn&#8217;t harmless banter, this was a billion-dollar brand using its platform to publicly demean a woman,” the source told the outlet, adding that &#8220;when billion-dollar brands join in, it’s irresponsible.&#8221;
Wendy’s responded, but not with an apology. People received a statement from the popular fast food brand saying: &#8220;We always bring a little spice to our socials, but Wendy’s has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and her out-of-this-world-talent.”
Perry hasn’t addressed any of the criticism publicly, but King responded to the haters, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gayle-king-complains-its-disrespectful-sexist-to-call-8-minute-space-ride-a-ride">claiming</a> it was sexist and “disrespectful” to criticize them. 
“So I wish people would do more due diligence. And then my question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do … and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing,&#8217;” King said in part. 
She continued, “You never see a man, a male astronaut, who’s going up in space and they say, ‘Oh, he took a ride.’ … It’s always referred to as a flight or a journey, so I feel that’s a little disrespectful to what the mission was and the work that Blue Origin does.”

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Wendy’s Doesn’t Apologize For Trolling Katy Perry’s Space Ride, But Has ‘A Ton Of Respect’ For Her

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Surveillance video from a Wendy’s in Prescott Valley, Arizona, shows an employee viciously sucker-punching an elderly customer, knocking him unconscious.
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Wendy&#39;s worker knocks cold elderly customer with sucker punch, leaving him fighting for life in Arizona hospital <a href="https://t.co/d1k09BOW1K">https://t.co/d1k09BOW1K</a> <a href="https://t.co/lXOHpUbAC2">pic.twitter.com/lXOHpUbAC2</a>
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The 67-year-old customer from Dewey, Arizona, was <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/moment-wendys-worker-knocks-out-elderly-customer/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">airlifted</a> to a local hospital where he was <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/fast-food-worker-accused-of-aggravated-assault-that-left-man-in-critical-condition">reported i</a>n critical condition.
“Oh, wow that was a pretty hard hit — that was a Mike Tyson hit,” one customer told <a href="https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/08/graphic-video-wendys-employee-sucker-punches-customer-prescott-valley/">CBS5</a>, adding, “The customer didn’t touch him, so he had no right to touch the customer, period, end of story. I just think that’s horrible and wish it didn’t happen. It puts a bad light on our entire society.”
The video showed the customer, who had apparently ordered three drinks, hunched over at the counter on July 26, licking a Frosty. According to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PrescottValleyPD/posts/pfbid02TFPDA1aumk4c8d8CyhMtuhLg8ZZq8ccpqcEJ2G7fsrsTvQFSoz7HPokX2gQ1Rb6Hl">police,</a> he complained about his order, “at which time an employee came out from behind the service counter and struck the customer in the head.”
Police identified the employee as Antoine Kendrick, 35, adding that he was arrested and booked on the charge of aggravated assault.
Kendrick looked at the customer lying on the ground, walked behind the counter, took some of his belongings, and left, CBS 5 noted. Police did not offer any details as to what had been said between the two men before the attack.
According to <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/arizona-wendys-worker-nearly-kills-customer-with-sucker-punch">The Blaze</a>, Kendrick was charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault as well as with resisting arrest <a href="https://tennessee.arrests.org/Arrests/Antoine_Kendrick_37306134/">in 2013</a> and charged with aggravated criminal trespass, aggravated assault, and evading arrest <a href="https://tennessee.arrests.org/Arrests/Antoine_Kendrick_37306134/">in 2016</a> before being charged with harassment and again with aggravated assault in 2019.
Another customer who said he had lived in the area for decades opined, “It’s mellow up here, you don’t have that kind of stuff. It’s a shame. I feel for the guy that got hit. It’s not right.”
Wendy’s has been hit hard by the Biden inflationary spiral; on Wednesday reports showed that Wendy&#8217;s Co fell short of estimates from Wall Street for quarterly U.S. same-store sales growth.
“Lower-income households are avoiding discretionary purchases and cooking more at home as prices of everyday essentials surge, which has affected Wendy&#8217;s that was already grappling with rivals McDonald&#8217;s Corp, KFC and Burger King,” <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wendys-misses-u-same-store-110606868.html">Reuters</a> reported.
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Wendy’s Doesn’t Apologize For Trolling Katy Perry’s Space Ride, But Has ‘A Ton Of Respect’ For Her

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