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What you're looking at is a poorly planned city that's car dependent.
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Before I left CA, I remember seeing one of these fucking places opening up in my area. Yes, the line was very long and remained so for months every time I went past it.
Why?
I really, really don't understand treat hogs that can wait an hour or longer for that, sucking in exhaust all the while.
I will never understand how someone can justify waiting in their car for over 40 minutes for fried chicken. Not to mention the parking lot is empty! How do they not just think "I'll just park and go in"?
Seriously I don't even wait at nicer restaurants for an hour. I'll find something else.
It truly is car brain, including the car brain belief that drive thru is always faster.
As a former drive thru worker, I can tell you that that is untrue, but the drive thru chuds were pretty much definitively more aggressive, more obnoxious, and more likely to further delay the transaction by being boomer assholes and inspecting their food and making petty demands if anything is even slightly out of place (or if they're fishing for a refund and lying).
Hey, also former drive thru worker! Unless drive thru was pretty much empty it was almost always guaranteed to be a longer wait. Exact same experience as you, people took longer getting situated in their cars slowing everyone else down
And god help me how in the living hell do you wait for over 10 minutes in a freaking drive thru only to get to the menu and say "uhmmmm what do I waaaant....". Ffs it's a MCDONALDS. You're going to order the number 3 and a diet coke like you do all the time Sharon.
My most common and hated experience every day in drive thru:
bing
static
recorded pitch starts
minute or two passes, horns honking