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I once walked down to the local ice cream dispensary to get a cone of some type. But they were short-handed that day, and had closed the walk-up window. So I walked over to the drive-thru window.
They would not serve me without a car. Instead of closing the drive-thru and making drivers get out of their car, they closed the walk-up window, and wouldn't serve any walk-ups at the drive-thru.
Fuck drive-thrus.
I hate drive-thrus even as a driver. The intercom is always garbage, the menu is always presented in some insane arrangement that's makes it basically impossible to peruse, paying at the window is awkward, receiving your food through the window is awkward, checking to make sure your order is correct is awkward, and to top it all off it usually takes longer than just parking and walking inside.
It is baffling to me that anyone ever willingly uses a drive-thru.
AC (or heating) tho.
Like the establishment does not have ac or heating.
The street doesn't!
Brcause those establishements usually make you park 2 km away and walk there
Bastards! How can they use kilometers?!
A Jack-In-The-Box in San Francisco (The Geary Street one) decided to keep its drive through open until midnight while the walk-in part closed at 8pm, which bugged me as a bicyclist. (They wouldn't serve me without a motor.)
Eventually the place opened up a walk-in window for after hours service, so I wasn't the only one bothered.
Take a chainsaw with you next time. If they complain that you don't have a motor, offer to demonstrate to them that you do in fact have one (without being threatening of course).
I would try riding up while revving my mouth as a motor.
“This is an e-bike. The motor is in the hub.”
What's the reasoning behind that
Less staff needed?
What's the reason to not serve people on foot at the drive through if they closed the walk-in?
I've been told it's a safety concern because people can get hit
I think it's related to safety and insurance but I don't really get it.
I worked at a Wendy's (US fast food restaurant) in the '90s. They told us not to serve people not in a vehicle because a standing person could much more easily jump up and yoink the register drawer or some money in it (or otherwise climb in through the window). Not sure how true any of that is, but thought I'd mention it.
I once took my bike to the Burger King drive-thru. It was late at night, no cars in sight. Yet the next time I went there, about two weeks later, they had already put up a sign explicitly banning bicycles.
Ice cream requires cruel and violent atrocity against intelligent creatures. Fuck ice cream.