But… the idea is to avoid human interaction! 🫠
Socializing is for socialists!
Next you'll tell me that communing is for communists.
Some places are drive-thru only after a certain hour or worse don't even have a dine-in option at all. I remember walking to a fast food joint next to my old apartment one night since it was the only place open and they wouldn't let me order because I wasn't in a car.
This is so fucked up to be honest. Just looking at the block that the Starbucks is sitting on it could be used much more effectively (if parking and roads were not a priority in north america).
A similar footprint in a european town/city could probably have 3 or 4 low-rise developments on it. We have developers and governments screeming housing crisis and a large city sprawl issue, yet we use space so ineffectively.
To rub it in there's all that free parking and just one parked car. I wonder where the hell are employees park their cars to leave all that space for customers.
The employees might not have money for a car since they get paid a shit wage.. which means having to walk through the car infrastructure.
And get berated for being 5 minutes late because the bus was 10 minutes late and its a 45 minute ride to go 12 kilometers.
That might be the employee’s car. I once worked at Dunkin’ Donuts and I was the only person staffing the place and had to do drive thru when it was like this. Also had to help walk-in customers. It was hell.
Interesting note. That is the 2 maggots, where famous artists in the 1930-1960's would have afternoon coffee and discuss politics, paintings, and everything of the day .
Can't do that in a driveway in your car? Smh
To be fair, drive-in also exists in Europe and really took a flight during Covid.
Have one to look at on google maps. Not too different other than the parking spaces being way smaller. Do note the cycle path though, recognizable by the red asphalt. Cycling to this place is super doable, and they have a sit-down dining area if you do.
Note too how this is in an industrial park, if you go north-west a bit you'll find a residential area which is MUCH less made for cars than the industrial park.
Fuck Starbucks too
There are more people served at the refasse than at the drive in line
Must be nice to have the money to wait in line, with your A/C on, to get an overpriced coffee that tastes like crap and isn’t worth the price they pay.
AKA $tarbuck$
there are Starbucks in Paris too that look exactly like the café/bistro in the bottom photo
I don’t doubt it. $tarbuck$ sucks either way.
(but they still serve overpriced coffee)
If you have to drive somewhere I've learned to use the app to order pickup ahead of time. Saves a huge amount of time and wasted gas, and the same pattern works regardless of your transportation method.
i live right in the middle of a growing Drive-Thru hellscape, and people here are just assholes to one another as often as possible.. i know because when i go out of my way to be _just a little _nice to somebody (especially somebody in a Drive-Thru), they're always shocked..
In fairness, have you tried being outside lately. So hot. No idea why, but there's no way I want to be outside right now. I'm going to prefer sitting inside my 2 ton box and blast the A/C using my gas powered engine until it cools off a bit.
Who waits more than 5 min for a 10 dollar caffeine shake?
Does that sign say Les Deux Magots?
Is that an insult?
It's such a famous place that it has its own Wikipedia page. About the name, it says:
"Magot" literally means "stocky figurine from the Far East". The name originally belonged to a fabric and novelty shop at nearby 23 Rue de Buci. The shop sold silk lingerie and took its name from a popular play of the moment (19th century) entitled Les Deux Magots de la Chine. Its two statues represent Chinese "mandarins", or "magicians" (or "alchemists"), who gaze out over the room.
Les Deux Magots is one of the more famous cafés in Paris. It was the hangout of many artists and writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Jean-Paul Sartre and André Breton.
Still there, still a great place to hang out and sip beer and people watch.
Kinda, but probably not in the way you'd expect.
But think of the calories I’m saving by sitting comfortably in my oversized and air conditioned vehicle!
Mist be nice to be able to live somewhere like that
I think sugar is the problem here not cars
Porque no los dos?
I hate crowds or human interaction, so the world of machines looks actually better.
Delivery and pick up are still both options offered by many coffee shops in walkable cities. In the case of delivery, dense bikeable neighborhoods might actually be faster in terms of food delivery than in a car centric society.
