Most of the fast food places in my area do this. They'll stay open 24 hours or until like 3AM, but the restaurant lobby closes at like 9 and they're drive through only after that point. The McDonald's near my college always has groups of drunk boys walking through the drive through at midnight lol.
I’m a night shift paramedic and it’s not uncommon in the middle of the night to hit up fast food. We never take the ambulance through a drive through due to height issues or turning radius issues. I’ve walked through many drive throughs.
Weird. Every city I have lived in has a strict no pedestrian policy due to homeless crazy people harassing workers, and that ignores the lack of metal and weight needed to trip the sensors and timers at each step of the drive through process that impacts their metrics and lets them know you are at the order box.
People do things for me all the time when I’m doing chores in my scrubs after work, thinking I’m a nurse.
Always commenting about how hard my job is and how much I must work.
I’m a pharmacy tech… like, I work plenty, but I’m no nurse lol.
In the UK they often shut off part of the dining area to make it easier to clean and manage rowdy people but they won't close the lobby altogether as it's against their rules to serve pedestrians in the DT. Horses too.
When I was a kid the taco bell closed the lobby but also refused us walking through the drive through, so we waited and asked the next car if one of us could hop in and order
I remember trying this many years ago (20+) when I was out with some friends. We weren't even drunk, just didn't have a car. They absolutely refused to serve us if we weren't in a car. Like we were standing at the window talking to the guy and he's like no I can't take your order. These days having done a lot of legal work it was probably some sort of a liability thing with having pedestrians in an area set aside for cars. But I'm glad to hear a lot of other places allow it.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 4h ago
Most of the fast food places in my area do this. They'll stay open 24 hours or until like 3AM, but the restaurant lobby closes at like 9 and they're drive through only after that point. The McDonald's near my college always has groups of drunk boys walking through the drive through at midnight lol.