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Holy crap! A two story, 4 lane drive through. Only in America!
The good news is that it’s unlikely anyone on foot could find a route to approach such a monstrosity, nor would they want to!
Holy crap! A two story, 4 lane drive through. Only in America!
The good news is that it’s unlikely anyone on foot could find a route to approach such a monstrosity, nor would they want to!
Soooooo, we'd all be so much better off if we walked to get our fast food? Am I getting the gist of this, it's the sitting in cars that's the problem and not the fast food? THAT's the take away?
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Hold on! At my age it sometimes takes time for things to come back. The last time I went through a fast food drive through was on a 750 Vulcan at a Hardees to pick up breakfast for FIL and me when we were painting the pool including the diving board section. Talking about working off some calories!
So I guess you probably drive through. In the midst of an obesity epidemic, I think we need more judging, not less.
And just exactly how is it you think your comments on a public forum berating people in drive-in lines waiting for takeout food supposed to help an obesity epidemic? Or for that matter assuming that a poster who responds not to your liking is a participant in those drive-in lines?
FWIW, I don't like waiting in lines ( as I imagine no one does) so personally I'd avoid a line of vehicles waiting for something that can just as easily ( or more so) be obtained by parking in the lot and going inside to get whatever it is, but it appears that many people ( obese or not- another assumption on your part that everyone who waits in a car line for fast food is obese???) think it's convenient.
We will have fast food like twice a year (when no other options).
1) it will both taste good, and disgusting, and usually both of us end up with upset stomachs after.
2) DH will usually get a meal, orders diet coke and I will take a couple drinks off it. I do not drink soda the rest of the year, but as soon as I have some, I crave it.
The food is definitely engineered to make you want more of it. I don't because it makes me feel vaguely ill, it is not nutrient dense, and it has too many calories, but still, I can see why it's a problem.
I used to like it, but these days it doesn't agree with me anymore and has gotten too expensive for what you get, so we avoid it now.
As momentum builds, the $113 billion fast-food industry is leaning in. Popeyes executives are cutting the size of dining rooms in half. Taco Bell is experimenting with eliminating them altogether in favor of more car lanes. Chick-fil-A plans to open a two-story, four-lane drive-through in Atlanta next year that can handle 75 cars at a time and delivers food from the kitchen on a conveyor belt.
LOL! Lining up like cattle to receive their dosage of cheap, fattening fodder. Sounds like a feeding station for humans.
I often laugh when I drive by my local Taco Bell (there's only one, small town) and count 8-10 or more cars waiting in the drive-thru, spilling into the entry driveway and sometimes out along the shoulder of the highway. I've joked that they must be selling more than tacos (a la Los Pollos Hermanos in Breaking Bad) to attract so many people willing to wait in line.
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