No more drive thrus?

MacUser · Postby **MacUser** » June 25th, 2008, 6:38 am

http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/293046

First it was a proposed ban on plastic bags.

Now, a member of the influential Madison Plan Commission wants to ban the restaurant drive-through -- or at least restrict the ubiquitous symbol of America's auto-centric lifestyle.

"Given the concern about all the carbon going into the atmosphere, I'm not sure we should be building more places for people to sit idling in their cars," says Eric Sundquist, who was appointed to the citizen panel by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz this spring.

A former newspaper reporter in Atlanta now working as a researcher at the UW-Madison's Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Sundquist notes that several cities in Canada have recently moved to ban the drive-through coffee shop or stand-alone fast food restaurant

Numerous cities contemplating drive-thru ban
http://www.ecospace.cc/culture/drive-thru-ban.htm.

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Zowie. No more fast food!

DeWayneTN · Postby **DeWayneTN** » June 26th, 2008, 4:02 am

Sometimes I think this might be best anyway. Some of the fast food places are slower than Christmas. Then you get asked to pull up and they'll bring it out to you. Then the order is wrong. :-)

Billy n NC · Postby **Billy n NC** » June 26th, 2008, 4:03 am

DeWayneTN wrote:Sometimes I think this might be best anyway. Some of the fast food places are slower than Christmas. Then you get asked to pull up and they'll bring it out to you. Then the order is wrong.

Can I Get a Witness... and thats after repeating your self 4 times..

NO more drive thrus. Say It Ain't So. I am trying to get my local geeky computer store to offer drive.. thru..

I hard drive and a Mouse to go. :lol:

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » June 26th, 2008, 4:08 am

must be a regional issue.

around here, i rarely have more than a single car ahead of me when pulling in. further, only one place I go to in a drive thru has you pull ahead, and they do that for ALL orders, since each order is made to order. when I want a Bacon Bleu Butter Burger, I expect to have to pull ahead and wait for a couple minutes.

In fact, sometimes when I go through the micky-dees, the food is ready so fast that they give it to me at the pay window, when I get the change back for paying for it.

soulsearcher · Postby **soulsearcher** » June 26th, 2008, 6:59 am

Suits me just fine. I don't do drive-thrus anyway. I want to physically see the person fill my order.

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » June 26th, 2008, 7:36 am

DeWayneTN wrote:Sometimes I think this might be best anyway. Some of the fast food places are slower than Christmas. Then you get asked to pull up and they'll bring it out to you. Then the order is wrong.

Could that be due to more chains are using Call Centers to take the drive thru orders?

I read somewhere that Texas McDonalds are also using call centers in HI for their drive thru orders as a test

A2JGirl · Postby **A2JGirl** » June 26th, 2008, 7:41 am

Do these people know how difficult it is to drag a baby in a car seat carrier and an 18 month old into a restaurant when your spouse isn't with you? Drive thrus are the best friend of the busy (albeit somewhat unhealthy) mom on the go.

Oh well. I like Sonic best anyway.

Jude 2