• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    This is probably during COVID when the inside was off limits.

    Plenty of people still use the drive through, but the complete lack of anyone in the carpark is sus.

    • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Former “partner”(ugh) circa 2015 here

      Back when I walked for the bux, 5 years before covid, this was my daily drive thru experience. My store averaged about 6 grand (thats about 700 customers) on DT alone during our morning rush, 6 hours straight of underfilled cars starting their day with caffeine dessert.

      This specific store could be a covid thing, but empty lobbies with cars wrapped around the building has kinda been starbie’s MO for the last decade or so that they’ve been transitioning away from “third place” mindset to “oh fuck we’re competing with McDicks mindset”

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      2 days ago

      I see this kind of thing regularly at my local Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers restaurant when it hits dinner time. The cars wrap around the building and block other traffic.

      Same for the DQ where I live.

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      2 days ago

      This would be a believable theory if I didn’t see huge lines of cars outside fast food restaurants every day before and after COVID.

      • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 days ago

        “We” probably have a too European view on this. Though walking/biking also makes the parking lots emptier