But… the idea is to avoid human interaction! 🫠

Some places are drive-thru only after a certain hour or worse don't even have a dine-in option at all. I remember walking to a fast food joint next to my old apartment one night since it was the only place open and they wouldn't let me order because I wasn't in a car.

This is so fucked up to be honest. Just looking at the block that the Starbucks is sitting on it could be used much more effectively (if parking and roads were not a priority in north america).

A similar footprint in a european town/city could probably have 3 or 4 low-rise developments on it. We have developers and governments screeming housing crisis and a large city sprawl issue, yet we use space so ineffectively.

To rub it in there's all that free parking and just one parked car. I wonder where the hell are employees park their cars to leave all that space for customers.

Well, someone has built the US in a way that in many places using the car is the only viable option. That's why half-blind 80 year olds still drive their own cars.

Interesting note. That is the 2 maggots, where famous artists in the 1930-1960's would have afternoon coffee and discuss politics, paintings, and everything of the day .

To be fair, drive-in also exists in Europe and really took a flight during Covid.

Must be nice to have the money to wait in line, with your A/C on, to get an overpriced coffee that tastes like crap and isn’t worth the price they pay.

AKA $tarbuck$

There are more people served at the refasse than at the drive in line

Was this during COVID and the war in section was closed?

i live right in the middle of a growing Drive-Thru hellscape, and people here are just assholes to one another as often as possible.. i know because when i go out of my way to be _just a little _nice to somebody (especially somebody in a Drive-Thru), they're always shocked..

If you have to drive somewhere I've learned to use the app to order pickup ahead of time. Saves a huge amount of time and wasted gas, and the same pattern works regardless of your transportation method.

Fuck Starbucks too

Who waits more than 5 min for a 10 dollar caffeine shake?

In fairness, have you tried being outside lately. So hot. No idea why, but there's no way I want to be outside right now. I'm going to prefer sitting inside my 2 ton box and blast the A/C using my gas powered engine until it cools off a bit.

Does that sign say Les Deux Magots?

Is that an insult?

Mist be nice to be able to live somewhere like that

But think of the calories I’m saving by sitting comfortably in my oversized and air conditioned vehicle!

I think sugar is the problem here not cars