I’ve been to many places where they close the interior and only do drive thru.
Sometimes they will be completely ok with you just walking through the drive thru on foot.
Almost always any other cars that show up will have people inside who will act terrified, like you are completely insane and may at any moment attack them.
Even though they’re the ones that just almost ran you over.
No.
stands in drive through
Get absolutely fucked and then give me my God damn meds.
Thanks.
We used to order drive through on our skateboards.
Recently I walked to a drive through, and they refused service because I didn’t have a car at the time. (Their inside was closed).
Guess I know where never to eat again.
Does someone have a definitive answer to this? Do they not want people eating in the parking lot?
They probably don’t want to get sued when someone gets run over or such.
Same bullshit they hide behind when they say they can’t give the leftovers to the unhoused.
Yep, someone might get sick and therefore all this fresh food is going to waste. We can’t make them sick like that, but we are okay with watching them slowly starve to death.
This reminds me of an anecdote that a friend used to explain the actual meaning behind the trolly problem. He said, forget the trolly, you go out to lunch at the local sandwich shop (hoagies or whatever), and you get a foot long, but only eat half. You walk past a homeless man begging for food. If you choose not to give him the food you are now carrying, and that person later dies from starvation, are you morally guilty/at fault for them dying because you could have helped but you didn’t. On the flip side, you give them food, they later choke/vomit it up (aspirating it or choking on it), and that leads to their death. Since you gave them the food that they choked and died from, are you morally guilty of that persons death because they wouldn’t have had anything to choke on if you didn’t give it to them?
This situation with leftovers is the trolly problem made real. Are companies guilty of letting people starve and die, because they don’t want to be found guilty of making them sick (and possibly dying)? Are they, or would they be guilty of either?
Corpos only know that if someone gets sick from the food given out at the end of the day, they can sue. Dead people don’t sue you. So if they starve and die, then they’re not going to sue, but if they get sick but live, they might.
Corpos see this as a very black and white thing. Giving the food away poses an “unnecessary risk” for little to no benefit to the company. So they don’t do it.
Corpos are the worst.
Same thing happened to me at a Maccas in perth, Australia… On a bicycle.
Did this at a place near my old work. I drove 50 miles to work, so when on break I’d walk. They had the walk up closed one day, and told me I couldn’t go through the drive through. So I ate at the place next door every Friday instead. (The rest of the week I brought food). But I liked to live it up on Friday, haha. Not sure why it was closed that one day… But they lost my service every week following because of it
I promise that the workers don’t give a shit. They’re not paid enough to care.
But they’re being recorded 24/7 and if management sees them serving people who do not have cars in the drive thru, it’ll be someone’s ass.
Back in the day, cameras pretty much only existed for the cash register and entry/exit areas. Now, they need to put in laws to keep the companies from installing cameras in bathrooms… That shit is fucking everywhere.
The corpos at the top are mandating that anyone in the drive thru must meet a minimum requirement of a “vehicle” which cars and bikes are (at least in most places), but you, on foot, are not.
This is just them trying to avoid getting sued because you were standing in the drive thru waiting for food and some inattentive fuck pulls in after you’ve ordered and runs you down. It’s really fucking stupid.
The idea that I think they were originally thinking is that people who are walking should go inside where they are reasonably safe from being run over to order/pick up/eat, then they started to keep the drive thru open later than the dining area, and here we are.
I get that they need to clean and whatnot, so they want to close the dining area, and that’s fine, but close the dining area and leave the counter open so people can walk in and get take out FFS. It’s basically just one strip of flooring that customers will walk into and out from while the seating area is closed, so not a big deal to run a mop over it and go home after closing time.
But nobody said corpos made sense.
im just going to walk up to the window with a sign that says “this is a car”
That would piss under drivers off pretty good.
For real: if you don’t have a car or bike, just tank your Uber
social credit scorerating.I mean, I don’t even think an Uber driver would accept that, there isn’t a ‘go through the drive through’ option, and if you tricked the Uber driver they would just not do it.
Uber does a pretty good job of catching a driver off guard by not making the destination clear in all cases. But the pickup and drop off is the same location. So a driver can easily just mark the trip complete and kick the passengers out of their car and collect their minimum fare.
Better than over them, I suppose.
Dammit, stupid autocorrect.
They should put a courtesy tricycle beside the entrance.
me and my homies using the drive thru
I know it’s more expensive but this is why I always use the Uber black option.
Do the white drivers not wanna go to drive thru or what
I don’t think that’s what Uber black is.
I figured but I couldn’t figure out what the connection between Black and drive-thru is. There’s no Uber in my country, we have Bolt and sturr.
Fred Flintstone the place up.
So they basically saying you should buy a car if you want some meds, or at the very least rent one.
If you have to close one, why not the drive through? If you make people come in, they might remember they need to buy something else
Because let’s say you’re the only person who showed up to work today. Trying to fill prescriptions puts your back to the rest of the store, maybe even takes you behind shelves. Makes it easy for you to get held up. Also shoplifting but I’m more concerned about your safety. With the drive through, you can give desperate sick people their prescriptions, and people who want other stuff can get it elsewhere.
Because opening up the entire interior of the store requires staffing and security… Having a service window with heavy glass and a two way box requires one person who does not need to be able to take care of themselves security wise.
Service windows exist in other countries too.
What doesn’t exist is the drive-thru.
That’s fair
I hate this community because my instinct to most posts is to downvote until I remember the OP is laughing at it, not with it. I guess that’s where the 10 downvotes come from.
Is there a thought to not subscribe to subs where your intent is to downvote everything? Or is this every lemming mission?
Is there a thought to actually try to understand what is being said before uselessly getting into an argument? Or is this every lemming mission?
I hate this community because my instinct to most posts is to downvote
Ah, I see the problem. You forgot to read more than half of the post you’re replying to. Can’t say that’s on me.
I used a bicycle in a Walgreens pharmacy drive though for the whole summer, and then one day a manager told me they won’t serve me there anymore because of “safety reasons”.
What they meant was for their safety, from liability, like if a car hit me.
I don’t use Walgreens for prescriptions anymore.
I would 100% stand in the drive through and hold up traffic till they gave me my prescription.
Why do you need a car to use the drive through?
Reminds me of the last time I was in Texas and somebody called the cops on me because I didn’t have a car
Crime: Being in public while poor.
That’s why I typically bring 2 cars when I go to Texas.
One in your luggage, one in your carry on.
My belt buckle is a car
One car for you, one for your gun
In drive through?
Yeah, had to get an Uber just to get some Whataburger
I’m sure it’s a safety thing. You get hit by a car going through drive through it’s probably the fast food company’s liability.
I think it says a lot about Texas that you aren’t the first person who told me they had the cops called on them for not having a car there.
My cousin went there as a foreign exchange student, and she lived a mile away from the town center. So she walked, cause it’s less than 20 minutes.
Then a cop car stopped beside her. First they were friendly, asking if her car broke down. But when she said she doesn’t have a car, and is walking, they actually took her in for questioning.Don’t they need to charge her with something in order to do that?
Nah it’s America
I think they can hold you for a set period of time before they have to charge you.
Not sure what they have to write on their paperwork for arresting you, but you basically can’t fight it unless you can call a lawyer to argue on your behalf.
That’s the Welcome to Texas package.
How the fuck is this acceptable?
This is what happens when a society agrees that to be part of it you need a car.
They did this with smartphones too
It is not. Welcome to the fossil fuel dystopia.
I don’t like it here.
