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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?
There's 26 spaces and 2 disabled spaces. There's about 35 cars waiting in line but it's not clear if they're all in line for the restaurant or if they need to be in that lane for other reasons. Only one space is filled in the parking lot, 25 of these cars could be parked and have people inside, leaving maybe 10 cars for the drive through but even then the 10 in the drive through would be blocking cars from coming or going.
These drive-thrus are always so fucking badly designed.
Carbrained and fast-foodbrained. Cook a fuckin meal and you might save more time, jeeze.
They weren't allowed to walk inside because this is during the height of covid.
What tunnel vision does to a mf
If there's a line like this in the drive through I just move on. The inside is gonna be even slower than just waiting for drive through.
I commonly see these drive thru lines and walk inside. No line.
Idk every time I've gone inside when a line is like this there won't be many people inside but the order will still take forever for some reason.
That's because there are 3 or 4 cars in the line between the order kiosk and the window who have already ordered before you walked in the door. When you walk in, you jump the line of cars before the order kiosk. But there aren't separate queues for counter and drive thru in the kitchen. They just see a list of orders in the order in which they were received, and process orders more or less FIFO.
If there are cars behind the order kiosk, you are almost certainly getting your order faster than if you had joined at the end of the line.
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.
Maybe we all should create a MicroNation ?
Is this Starbucks in the middle of 4 road intersection
They really will put them anywhere and everywhere lol.
Yeah how else are you gonna get there /s