What is the global-warming impact of the omnipresent drive-through?

February 25, 2009
Advice about recreational eating
Hey Mr. Green,
What is the global-warming impact of the omnipresent drive-through? Surely this has to be one of our biggest wastes of energy. –Robert in Biglerville, Pennsylvania
In drive-throughs or anyplace, idling is, to summon the old saying, the devil’s workshop. Every hour you [...]

Wally Kennedy: Convenience consumes 100,000 gallons of gas on Range Line

Not long ago, I wrote about the convenience of drive-through windows. It was specifically in regard to the drive-through at Macadoodles at 17th Street and Range Line Road.
I said you could pick up some spirits there and then drive through interconnecting parking lots to the drive-through windows at Backyard Burgers or Wendy’s. Booze and burgers [...]

Jack in the Box, Wendy’s to outsource drive-through order-takers

10:11 AM CST on Tuesday, January 27, 2009
HOUSTON—Next time you pull up to a fast-food drive-through, the voice you hear could be miles away.
Some restaurant chains, including Jack in the Box and Wendy’s, are giving outsourcing a try.
Orders will be taken from a call center instead of at the restaurants themselves.
The centers will be staffed [...]

Chain Outsources Drive-Through Orders

UPDATED: 10:52 am EST January 27, 2009
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A fast-food giant is trying to determine whether its easier to place your drive-through order with someone around the world instead of around the corner.
Jack in the Box Inc. has been testing a program in some Charlotte-area restaurants that outsources order-taking to a call center elsewhere.
Company [...]

Outsourcing Of Drive-Thru Order Takers! (Seriously)

From The Charlotte Observer:
“That crackling voice taking your order at a fast-food drive-through may come from a lot farther away than the restaurant: Try Texas,or even overseas.
San Diego-based Jack in the Box has tested outsourced drive-through order-taking since mid-2008 at seven of its 30 Charlotte-area restaurants. Spokeswoman Kathleen Anthony declined to specify the locations, though [...]

TOP STORY | Wally Kennedy: Drive-thru Convenience consumes 100,000 gallons of gas on Range Line

Published January 27, 2009 08:56 am
Not long ago, I wrote about the convenience of drive-through windows. It was specifically in regard to the drive-through at Macadoodles at 17th Street and Range Line Road.
I said you could pick up some spirits there and then drive through interconnecting parking lots to the drive-through windows at Backyard Burgers [...]

Denialism | Restaurant industry commends St. John’s City Council on drive-through decision

Restaurant industry commends St. John’s City Council on drive-through decision
    ST. JOHN’S, Jan. 20 /CNW/ – The Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices
Association (CRFA) commends City Council in St. John’s, Newfoundland for
taking a co-operative, consultative approach on solving traffic problems and
rescinding its ban on drive throughs.
    City Council lifted the two-week-old moratorium on drive-through outlets
on [...]

Canada is one huge drive-thru for Tim Hortons

‘One huge drive-thru’
Posted 5 days ago
Aside from its signature coffee, the only Tim Hortons’ product more delightful than a Boston cream donut is two Boston cream donuts.
At least that’s the word from CBC-TV commentator and radio host Rex Murphy, who sang the praises of the Canadian coffee chain last week during his weekly [...]

Drive Thru Issue Gone Nation Wide; O’Keefe

Drive Thru Issue Gone Nation Wide; O’Keefe
January 9, 2009
St. John’s Mayor Dennis O’Keefe, says interest in council’s decision to put proposed drive-thru’s on hold until traffic safety issues are addressed has gone nation-wide. O’Keefe says he has been doing interviews with media across the country – but he says there’s another aspect of the issue that’s unfolding. O’Keefe says [...]

CBC | Drive-thru moratorium debate brewing in N.B. cities

Drive-thru moratorium debate brewing in N.B. cities
Last Updated: Friday, January 9, 2009 | 7:43 AM ET Comments87Recommend56
CBC News
The idea of clamping down on drive-thrus that is filtering through a Newfoundland and Labrador city council is causing a full-bodied debate to percolate in New Brunswick.
The city council in St. John’s, N.L., has ordered a moratorium [...]