• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Places that require a car for the drive thru are just leaving money on the table. I never understood that.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      This is entirely a corpo policy to limit liability. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that they want to prevent people from standing in the drive thru since that carries the risk of them being hit/injured/harmed while waiting in the line.

      Its literally a problem because corpos don’t want to get sued for an idiot driver gassing their way through a drive thru and mowing someone down.

      Honestly, given how lawsuit happy many people are, I’m not terribly surprised. What does surprise me though, is that they don’t have a walk-up window in a pedestrian safe area. I guess the logic is that the pedestrians can just go inside, but when the drive thru is open late, after the dining/walk in area closes, you end up with stupid situations like the OP.

      I hate corpos.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      I’d assume they want to discriminate against people who are too poor to have cars because they think those people are more likely to be difficult customers, and since most people have cars they don’t lose much business by doing this.

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        Wealthier people are by far the most difficult customers. They think they’re entitled to everything because they’re “rich” and “above” wage slaves, so they get pissy and aggressive the moment something doesn’t go their way (and sometimes they’ll just make a ruckus for fun). Source: I worked in a few fast food restaurants in the south before

        It was crazy for me working at a mexican restaurant and the only people who got argumentative over the $13 for a burrito with just 4 oz of meat (total rip-off) were the ones who could definitely afford it, while the poorer people just accepted it. And the wealthy people always came in again (usually regulars) and expected it to be more every time.

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        1 day ago

        Drive troughs have a very high turnover rate, don’t need space for tables or employees cleanup, etc.