Talk:Drive-through

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== 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

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[edit] Other drive-throughs?

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

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) ==

[edit] 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)

[edit] Bottle stop

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)