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Originally Posted by Crawford
The pandemic turbocharged drive-thru design. Now restaurants are commonly built with no seating, and a double drive-thru. It's pretty dystopian.
Since the pandemic, chains like Panera are basically closing every suburban-style outlet that doesn't have an existing drive-thru. And chains that never had drive-thrus, like Outback and Applebees, are buildings new drive-thru-focused outlets. End-times level bad.
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What I have definitely seen is restaurants being more geared towards Uber-eats than actual in restaurant eaters. We just went to this restaurant that we used to love to go to and they have cut their sit down space in half and opened up a big counter for all the uber eats take-out orders.
The drive thrus are just another symptom of people preferring to eat the restaurant food at home. Similar phenomena to Netflix vs empty movie theaters.
edit -- and Amazon vs empty malls, and working from home vs empty office towers.