So far the glass top has been a bugger to keep clean. My mom hit the old spiral coil style of electric stove. Of course that is what I learned to cook on. Then I built the house at the lake and he had gas which is able to be turned very low so is to not burn the food.
You got me curious now is to if Wendy's chili was available for some time, so I looked it up and it first hit the shelves in April of 2023. Funny that you did not remember the smoke flavor eating the chili from the restaurant. I don't remember it being Smokey either, but boy the can version certainly is!