They just need to add one more lane, bro.
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?
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
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.
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.
Why is walking into a restaurant superior to driving through?
Quicker in this instance, is what they’re implying. Due to the line.
Problem is, the staff will commonly still prioritize the cars and you’ll still wait. Maybe not as much if you got in the end of the queue, but still longer than you’d expect.
I can do a mobile order before I even get there and just wait for it at the counter
Looks like covid lockdown time.
Because that’s when the picture was taken.
Which means OP is spreading misinformation by saying they should just park and go inside.
They literally weren’t allowed to because of covid.
There is a Starbucks just like this to this day in a suburb where I worked until just recently. Every morning at 8 AM they have a drive-thru line backed up out into the surrounding streets.
Misinformation? In this community? How unexpexted.
Though it’s true that this particular picture was taken during covid time, it does not mean its any less true in conveying what North American car culture has actually done to our cities and infrastructure planning/implementation.
Here is a video of how school drop off’s work in North America for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLpCMdVcqTI
Looking at this particular plot of land in the image OP has posted. Land use is very poorly utilized. You have one business surrounded by a parking lot. This same space could have easily in a European city fit 5 or more businesses with plenty of residential units above and still be left with place for green space or a park.
30 people getting coffee vs 30 people getting coffee.
And a comparable parcel of land roughly the same size. Its night and day in terms of utilization of land alone.
Drive through times are often prioritized
So many places do order ahead now, though. I don’t go to starbucks often, but when I do, I order ahead from my house, ride over on my electric board, walk in, grab my already made drink, and leave. In and out of the building in 15 seconds. Meanwhile, the drive-through extends through the entire parking lot barely moving. Absolute chumps.
Fast food has destaffed their registers so even with this line it is probably faster to drive through than to wait to order before you wait for your deprioritized food
I’m sure there ist no walk in. Just a drive in.
Agreed, but a "drive in’ would be better, this “drive through” is a dumb waste of parking spots.
Because my car is where all my stuff is. Air condition, my phone showing YouTube already plugged in, I’m sitting instead of standing, my massage seats are on, I don’t have to see and more importantly smell anyone else, I don’t have to fight dashers inside to get my food that they thought was their order. For starters most of those reasons.
Maybe we all should create a MicroNation ?
What tunnel vision does to a mf
I remember this picture. It was from the opening of some mediocre but popular burger chain. They had the doors closed and it was drive through only that day if I’m recalling it correctly.
Um…you can literally see the Starbucks logo on the side of the building.
There is a very similar picture to this of some burger joint opening up but fine now that I wasted my time looking its a starbucks.
As others have pointed out, this is a Starbucks, but take a look at this photo I took a couple months ago. It was a line for an In-N-Out burger that was not even new, but it was the longest drive-through line I’ve ever seen. It was like ~500 feet long and split off into four separate lanes that all filtered into two main lanes that they actually took your order at. I was across the street getting Chipotle and I spent about 15 minutes inside watching this line and all of these cars only move forward by about one car length. I guesstimate that these people are gonna be waiting in line for two plus hours and that fucking blows my mind.
And the fuckers were spilling into the main road blocking traffic.
“America is worth fighting for!”
America:
No that isn’t the picture I’m talking about. What I really love about this is I don’t care enough to go find the drone shot I was talking about and the rage I’m seeing about this is childish.
Chill bro, I was just talking to you and giving you a personal example of my own.
Just yesterday I wanted to go out to see my “local” town. I ended up going out for about 3 hours, 2 or which were “sitting” in the car commuting from a “livley” area to another “lively” area.
Business like the one shown in this photo posted by OP have become to far apart from one another, separate by seas of parking and 8 lanes of pavement.
Its astonishing that this is considered “normal” in North America. Just going to the local Walmart to get some milk can take about a hour or two of your day.
Walking is almost out of the question, just imaging leaving the Walmart that is probably located on the other side to arrive at the front door of this coffee chain.
I love me a drive thru when I’m so exhausted I don’t want to get out of the car. Car has comfy seats and HVAC. Normally I do prefer going in to get the order faster though.
Well. Some places don’t offer counter service and their doors are locked. You have to use the drive thru. Otherwise I agree with you except I don’t get to even talk to a human, I am directed to a kiosk. And they flash a tip option. A tip for what?
Otherwise I agree with you except I don’t get to even talk to a human, I am directed to a kiosk.
Honestly I’m a big fan of this. If I’m eating at a fast food restaurant, I’m having a bad day. And if you are working at a fast food restaurant, I feel odds are that you are having a bad day, too. Why should we inflict our bad days on each other?
And they flash a tip option. A tip for what?
I’m confused as to why people are consistently so upset by this. What happens is obvious. A restaurant buys some POS software to plug into their checkout system. Since the software is used in many different restaurants with many different needs, it has an option for tipping. The person installing the software sees the option and says “hey, if someone wants to give us more money, why not give them the option?”, checks a box on a config screen they will never open again, and then goes to lunch. Just select “No Tip” and move on with your life.
Hardworking appliances depend on tips to provide electrons to their families. If you don’t tip the kiosk that kiosk might go home and have to explain to it’s toaster that they can only afford to use the low power settings.
