Not to excuse it but some restaurants prioritize drive through over the people who order inside.
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.
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.
Was this taken during covid lockdowns when the indoor section was closed and there was no other option?
i think so. found this article
edit: and this
Lotta places are just like this anyway.
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.
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.
First, the city should be ticketing every single vehicle that is parking in the road and blocking traffic. If I was a cop, I would just park myself right there and hand out easy tickets all day every day. Being in line for a drive through does not excuse blocking traffic.
But the bigger issue that people here are missing is that going into the store may not actually save you any time. Often when I’ve tried that at places like McDonalds, the drive through is far faster than waiting in the kitchen. Their whole operation is optimized for the drive through, and in-kitchen orders end up stuck in this weird ghetto backlog that they’ll get to when they feel like getting to it.
I don’t think those are actual roads; they look like the parking lot roads you find in various commercial complexes. They are technically considered private property, as such traffic laws don’t exactly apply the same way.
If you are in the appropriate lane for the turn you intend to make, and the car in front of you isn’t moving, I’m pretty sure the law doesn’t require you to pick a different destination or ram the car ahead of you. What the law should be is a different question, but cop you would just see a bunch of tickets thrown out in quick succession. I don’t know what that realistically means for the job, but it can’t be good.
genuinely every time I go inside a place, it’s faster than drive through
There is a popular place near me where the line could be as long as the photo and they would get you through in a few minutes. Of course that involves having several people walking the cars getting orders and taking money. The window hands out the food as fast as the drivers can pull up. It’s insane but impressive.
Csa places and innout.
Reminds me of how my (able bodied) mom would drive around looking for a closer parking spot for far longer than it would have taken to just walk from the first available one.
the only time I do that is when I’m getting stupidly heavy objects, like freezers or furniture.
Literally! Anytime I go to Costco i intentionally go to the furthest spots because they’re likely to be open and I’m fully capable of and enjoy walking.
You also can’t ride the cart through the parking lot if you park too close. Then you just look silly kicking it up to speed for just a short ride.
(I’m almost 40 and still do this every time I have to go shopping, like a reward for completing the draining task)
My trick is to park further away but on a straight line to the entrance, not diagonal. I think it’s often shorter.
I’m the one who parks in the spot right beside you, just to mess with you.
The more the merrier! I have a compact SUV and park in the middle of the space :)
I’m the one who uses a series of car dollies to move your parked car one parking lane over, just to mess with you.
😧
A former friend I met up with at a pub parked in a handicapped spot because they couldn’t find a spot in less than two blocks. They didn’t have a handicap or a disability vehicle tag. I had biked and walked four blocks just because I liked walking. Stopped being friends with them after that for being so ableist and a general asshole. Really tells you a lot about a person.
I purposefully park in the back. I don’t get enough walking casually throughout the day. Plus I don’t want people to ding my car.
Man even when I park in the back with tons of empty spots some fucking loser will without fail park next to me.
I park far away cause I hate people
[Meme] You park far away because you hate people
I park far away because I hate people
Oh shit, we are the same! [/Meme]
My dad’s like that. One time he came to visit he didn’t like that the closest spot was 2 blocks away, so he drove around until he found a spot 5 or 6 blocks away
I had an ex who would do this shit and I’d always be like “well let me out and I’m gonna walk from here, you can go through your ritual and have fun”
People like wasting tons of time at church too 🤷♂️
My favorite is people who slam on the brakes and make everyone behind them wait for them while they park at the first spot they find at a parking garage (whether the current occupant has left or not).
Like, there are stairs and/or an elevator. It would take you less time and effort to park next to those and everyone behind you can park at the same time.
Looks like covid lockdown time.
I hope this isn’t a photo from mode pandemic… I mean fuck cars and all that, but drive thru was clutch for a bit there.
The brain rot is insane. Every Starbucks and Chickfila.
50 tons of social stratification
Nastybucks. Just throw your K cup in with some creamer.
Only one car parked. Either most of the staff is taking transit to work, or this place is dismally understaffed.
Or they aren’t allowed to park in customer parking?
There’s 26 spaces and 2 disabled spaces. There’s about 35 cars waiting in line but it’s not clear if they’re all in line for the restaurant or if they need to be in that lane for other reasons. Only one space is filled in the parking lot, 25 of these cars could be parked and have people inside, leaving maybe 10 cars for the drive through but even then the 10 in the drive through would be blocking cars from coming or going.
These drive-thrus are always so fucking badly designed.
Carbrained and fast-foodbrained. Cook a fuckin meal and you might save more time, jeeze.
It’s a coffee shop. Which is even worse than fast food.
