Talk:Drive-through

== Is the usual system that you place your order at one window, then drive to another one and collect it?

I have also added information about these restaurants being locations where young men go to present their newly-bought or newly-modified cars

Other drive-throughs?

What about including Drive through ATM machines, drive through pharmacy services etc? --Coffeelover 17:17, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

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In 2005, one major fast food company announced plans to take drive through orders from a central location, the theory being that dedicated order takers would make fewer errors than the in-store order takers.

Which company is this? Any sources? --Arm 23:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

In the Spring of 2005 McDonald's' announced that an undisclosed number of their stores were testing outsourced drive-through order taking. The voice repeating an order to a customer may belong to a person at a central call center in North Dakota (or Colorado Springs, depending on who's reporting it), who then electronically relays the order to the restaurant. What’s being measured is whether off-site order-takers — who aren’t distracted by the need to make fries or count change — can reduce the number of incorrectly entered orders, McDonald’s CFO Matthew Paull told analysts in March. Quicksilver 05:54, 10 November 2005 (UTC) ==

etiquette section?

Welcome to the Wikipedia Finishing School for Young Ladies Gentlemen.... surely an etiquette section is extraneous, it could even fall under a how-to and should be removed. I'll leave this point here and allow someone else to remove it, or tell me why I am wrong. Cheers, Jonomacdrones _(talk) 03:42, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Bottle stop

What is a bottle stop?! —Curran _{(talk | contibs | random)} 04:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Stop through

Since when is a drivethrough the same as a drive-in?!! Or is everybody on WP too young to remember drive-ins...? The first is said to be The Pig Stand, opened by J.G.Kirby in Texas in 1921--& we used to have an A&W drive-in here for about 40yrs, before drivethrough ever happened... Trekphiler 09:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop claims to be first drive-thru, also in 1921. Art LaPella 16:50, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Drive-through liquor store

Current revision mentions "Alcohol at a drive-through liquor store" - I think someone is taking the p**s!190.16.115.254 07:36, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Drive-through liquor stores do exist, although they may not be as common. I know of specific locations in Georgia and Florida, and I've seen them elsewhere.
--JKeene 22:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

they do exist, and I can get a Picture of one. 71.8.77.160 (talk) 19:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

thru over through

thru is the correct spelling for such a page, and the naming should be changed as appropriate. 84.13.21.169 (talk) 14:26, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

"Drive-through" gets more google hits. Both names are currently mentioned, so I don't see any reason to change.
--JKeene (talk) 20:49, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

I have reviewed the Google results as well and I concur with User:Jkeene's analysis. Both spellings are in common use but "drive-through" is slightly more common. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:08, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

For the record, drive-thru gets 4.4 million hits on Google, drive-through gets 514,000 hits. --129.97.41.79 (talk) 08:24, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

The usages seem fairly even, so please elucidate what possible benefit renaming a renaming bring to the article that would outweigh stirring up reams of arguments over national varieties of English? Whichever one you pick, roughly 50% of people will type in the other version, and redirects will sort them out perfectly adequately and efficiently. Knepflerle (talk) 19:39, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

AFAIK "thru" is not a proper word in any dialect of English, anymore than "Xmas" is. "Thru" is simply a handy abbreviation invented and used by sign-writers. I would be more inclined to use "through" throughout (thruout?) the article and relegate "thru" to a sentence to enlighten those who don't understand the concept of abbreviations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.183.201 (talk) 10:33, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Record section

I don't think this section has any relevancy to the article. It isn't sourced and pertains only to McDonald's 15-minute record times. The records listed are speculative, because I worked at a McDonald's in Monroe, Michigan that claimed to hold a national record of 210 cars in one hour (52½ cars every 15 minutes); there's even a plaque on the wall. Besides, whatever the record may be, who cares? It has no usefulness in this article. By that, I'm removing it. —№tǒŖïøŭş4lĭfė ♫♪ 04:32, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:FOOD Tagging

This article talk page was automatically added with {{WikiProject Food and drink}} banner as it falls under Category:Restaurants or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. You can find the related request for tagging here -- TinucherianBot (talk) 09:12, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Non-American Drive-thru prevalence?

It is hinted at several times in the article that drive-thrus are not just an American phenomenon. I was wondering if this could be expanded upon at all. I know they're in Europe and Australia as well, but to what extent? Flatcurve (talk) 20:57, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Drive-throughs in the UK are common in provincial towns but don't seem to exist in cities. This is probably because in our cities, driving is a nightmare and people travel on foot with public transport. Land being so expensive, a drive-through would not be profitable in a UK city. However, in the provincial towns, land is relatively cheap and car use is high. Drive-throughs exist almost exclusively in retail parks and leisure parks. In Stevenage, which is a large town of around 80,000 inhabitants, there are 4 drive-through fastfooderies. It's also worth noting that the abbreviation "drive-thru" is never used in the UK, it's always written as "drive-through", even on the signage.