The Time Has Come...
For American Motorist of the USA to say "NO" to the Drive-thru Window at your fast-food chain. No to the Drive-Thru at your Bank. No to the Drive Thur at your Tobacco Store. If approved the ordinance would regulate drive-through Restaurants, Banks, Coffee Shops, Pharmacies, Liquor Stores, Dry Cleaners and other businesses that cater to customers in cars. It's past-time! They have to go!
A long time ago in consumer culture history, an important decision was made that: every low-priced restaurant should cater to drivers and their efforts to maximize caloric intake while minimizing output.
Nowadays, everyone's too fat and the downsides of the drive-thru culture have become painfully obvious -- maybe it's time to re-examine the benefits of 'the window.' What if we found that all of the time we spent burning precious gasoline, emitting pollution, and conveniently sitting on our backsides with the air-conditioning, we were actually not getting our food as fast as if we walked in?
That's exactly the question asked by Car Concerns Radio Reporters who decided to put the drive-thru window to the test. Using stop watches and carbon footprint calculators, they set out to find out if driving through the window is actually any faster than walking up to the counter. They went to the local McDonald's, Starbucks, and SunTrust Bank, on their mission and when the results came in, they weren't very surprising.
The winner: there was no real difference in the time it took to get their orders, but of course the drive-through customer did succeed at emitting a boatload of CO2 and wasting fuel. So there you have it, Drive-Thru's are the root of all evil.
So Harry encourages you to get off-of-your fat ass and go inside and get your 1,000 + calorie Super-Sized Meal!
Watch for Harry's documentary "Drive-thru Madness in American"
