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This is probably during COVID when the inside was off limits.
Plenty of people still use the drive through, but the complete lack of anyone in the carpark is sus.
Because my car is where all my stuff is. Air condition, my phone showing YouTube already plugged in, I'm sitting instead of standing, my massage seats are on, I don't have to see and more importantly smell anyone else, I don't have to fight dashers inside to get my food that they thought was their order. For starters most of those reasons.
Why is walking into a restaurant superior to driving through?
I can do a mobile order before I even get there and just wait for it at the counter
Quicker in this instance, is what they're implying. Due to the line.
Problem is, the staff will commonly still prioritize the cars and you'll still wait. Maybe not as much if you got in the end of the queue, but still longer than you'd expect.
Well. Some places don't offer counter service and their doors are locked. You have to use the drive thru. Otherwise I agree with you except I don't get to even talk to a human, I am directed to a kiosk. And they flash a tip option. A tip for what?
Hardworking appliances depend on tips to provide electrons to their families. If you don't tip the kiosk that kiosk might go home and have to explain to it's toaster that they can only afford to use the low power settings.
A decent espresso machine is like $100.
No it isn't, a $100 machine cannot make espresso even if the box claims it does, unless you go used, the minimum for a machine that can make espresso is like $600.
Maybe we all should create a MicroNation ?
You point of order does not affect the maximum throughput, I guess.
But it'll be earlier in the pipeline
Is nobody mentioning the fact that there are 4 lane roads surrounding the entire coffee shop? Like thats absolutely the least or one of the least efficient ways you could do urban planning. In areas similar to this where I live, the block sizes are at least like 5x wider and longer than whatever this is.
They needed to spend millions to add an extra lane so it could handle the queue to the coffee shop. Unfortunately there was nothing left in the budget for bike lanes, it just wasn't a priority.
People were getting annoyed at the queue, so they kept adding one more lane?
Great point, what sort of a hellscape is that!?
Not to excuse it but some restaurants prioritize drive through over the people who order inside.
Until you realize that they purposefully understaff and now your front counter guy has to prioritize drive thru times over your order because that's the only metric corporate measures.
Unrelated, but why are there two different styles of crosswalk? I'm not from the states and I've never seen either before.
There isn't really a standard crosswalk design over here. Likely each one was done at different times, part of different jobs.
Was this taken during covid lockdowns when the indoor section was closed and there was no other option?
Yes, definitely. I remember this exact picture.
Without cars, plenty of those businesses wouldn't be able to have customers and would have gone bankrupt because of it.
This is a misinformation post made to circlejerk about shitting on cars.
There are plenty of reasons to shit on them, this one isn't it.
Lotta places are just like this anyway.
Because if you go in there is just no one taking your order and they completely deprioritize it too. Takes just as long or longer half the time I've tried
That's part of carbrain culture. Where I live, both options are equally fast because drive through is seldom used. And Germany is actually very carbrainy, but perhaps not completely lost yet.
They'll tell you it's because "nobody wants to work" when the reality is that people just stopped putting up with that job for the scraps they were paid. These places were never successful and deserve to go out of business as they rely on poverty wages for their existence.