drsmooth wrote:on another matter: drive-thru windows - I don't hardly ever.

Do you use them, consciously avoid them, or employ some decision tree for your in-car-personal-retailing strategy?

I keep a bag of straws in my van, because so many times I pick up food for the kids, but just a drink for myself -- since there's no food bag, I never get a straw.

Drive-thru totally necessary with small-ish kids.

MrsVox wrote:I keep a bag of straws in my van, because so many times I pick up food for the kids, but just a drink for myself -- since there's no food bag, I never get a straw.

Also helps for the magic pick-me-up powder.

Use it at DQ and McDonalds. I don't know why, but the drive in menu at McDonalds seems more complete than the one in the store. Sonic of course is a drive in.

Also, your drive up order may be outsourced.

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I don't understand the point of restaurants that have a window where you pay for your food and then a window you have to drive up to to pick up your food. Honestly, what's the reasoning behind this?

Slowhand wrote:I don't understand the point of restaurants that have a window where you pay for your food and then a window you have to drive up to to pick up your food. Honestly, what's the reasoning behind this?

me and my buddy were just scrambling for the past 10 minutes thinking we could go to the sixers tonight with a few people, as we just came up with the idea. turns out they are playing in chicago tonight. important fact that we overlooked.

Slowhand wrote:I don't understand the point of restaurants that have a window where you pay for your food and then a window you have to drive up to to pick up your food. Honestly, what's the reasoning behind this?

keeps things moving during busier times, gives the 2nd window another 30 seconds or so to get the order together, and makes it seem like it's a bit faster during busy times

Also adds another person to take orders so the second person doesn't have to deal with it

/mcdonald's drive-thru record holder

TenuredVulture wrote:

Slowhand wrote:I don't understand the point of restaurants that have a window where you pay for your food and then a window you have to drive up to to pick up your food. Honestly, what's the reasoning behind this?

To frustrate teh Jooz?

drsmooth wrote:on another matter: drive-thru windows - I don't hardly ever.

Do you use them, consciously avoid them, or employ some decision tree for your in-car-personal-retailing strategy?

They !@#$ you at the drive-thru, okay? They !@#$ you at the drive-thru! They know you're gonna be miles away before you find out you got !@#$ed! They know you're not gonna turn around and go back, they don't care.

My brother actually drove through a window once.

Personally, I rarely use the drive-thru.

Used to hate it in high school when you were walking around looking for food after midnight and some places would have the drive thru open til 1 but not the dining room. These places would inevitably tell you they can't serve you unless you're in a car as if that actually mattered at all.

<object width="250" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="http://listen.grooveshark.com/widget.swf">
<param name="wmode" value="window">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
<param name="flashvars" value="hostname=cowbell.grooveshark.com&songIDs=28194197&style=metal&p=0">
<embed src="http://listen.grooveshark.com/widget.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="250" height="400" flashvars="hostname=cowbell.grooveshark.com&songIDs=28194197&style=metal&p=0" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="window">
</object>

I kinda just wanted to see if that would work on here.

What preview button?

Bill McNeal wrote:
I kinda just wanted to see if that would work on here.

<object width="250" height="40"> <param name="movie" value="http://listen.grooveshark.com/songWidget.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="window"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="flashvars" value="hostname=cowbell.grooveshark.com&widgetID=23318181&style=metal&p=0"> <embed src="http://listen.grooveshark.com/songWidget.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="250" height="40" flashvars="hostname=cowbell.grooveshark.com&widgetID=23318181&style=metal&p=0" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="window"></object>

Very nice development for Grooveshark. Thanks for unveiling that, Bill!

(one of my favorite 'Christmas songs' which isn't 'officially' a Christmas song. Sounds festive as all get-out though, so)

won't work for me on chrome =(

that million dollar drop show is on

The Dude wrote:

Slowhand wrote:I don't understand the point of restaurants that have a window where you pay for your food and then a window you have to drive up to to pick up your food. Honestly, what's the reasoning behind this?

keeps things moving during busier times, gives the 2nd window another 30 seconds or so to get the order together, and makes it seem like it's a bit faster during busy times

Also adds another person to take orders so the second person doesn't have to deal with it
/mcdonald's drive-thru record holder

That's it. The concept is quite simple. Have multiple stations performing customer-facing tasks simultaneously, even though there can only be a single customer queue. All in the name of efficiency. It makes perfect sense during busy times.

CalvinBall wrote:that million dollar drop show is on

One of my favorite "that guy" is hosting.

one awesome thing about winter is the water from the bathroom sink is ice cold when i go to drink it.