It's horses for courses. If we're all a bit peckish and in our way back from a day out or in Birmingham and got the kids with us we'll tend to eat in, if we're just grabbing the kids something to eat say on the way back from a party, we'll do the drive through. We probably only use Macci D'd 4-5 times a year.
What I don't understand is these people that go through the drive thru then park up 20-30 metres away from the car park usually blocking the driveway in, to eat it. Morons.
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Well this is one aspect that concerns me. People just using them out of pure laziness, just becasue they can't be arsed to get out of their seats.
How many do so out of convenience and time constraints and how many out of pure laziness?
We have neighbours who hardly ever go shopping. Taxis everywhere, all food delivered etc. They don't drive, but I would bet my life on it that of they had a car they would only use the McDonald's drive thru.
These neighbours are incredibly lazy, scruffy, lounge abouts. Never make any effort to dress up. Never make any effort in their apparance and just hang around their front garden watching the world pass them by, while their windows have England and Union flags as make-do curtains and their house is incredibly grubby.
You think they struggle, but they always have money for drugs and taxis etc.
Make my view is also jaundiced by the people I see at McDonald's in the West Orchards food mall and those in the one in the Burges. There you can quite often see very large beer-bellied mums in tracky bottoms feeding burgers to their babies. Everytime I pass I see people just like my neighbours.
I have only been in McDonald's about 2 or 3 times in the last 30 years, so I am guessing I am biased, but then at the same time I couldn't then explain the overwhelming desire to go inside the place rather than sit on my car talking to someone through an intercom.
They don't drive, but I would bet my life on it that of they had a car they would only use the McDonald's drive thru.
We have neighbours who hardly ever go shopping. Taxis everywhere, all food delivered etc. They don't drive, but I would bet my life on it that of they had a car they would only use the McDonald's drive thru.
These neighbours are incredibly lazy, scruffy, lounge abouts. Never make any effort to dress up. Never make any effort in their apparance and just hang around their front garden watching the world pass them by, while their windows have England and Union flags
Make my view is also jaundiced by the people I see at McDonald's in the West Orchards food mall and those in the one in the Burges. There you can quite often see very large beer-bellied mums in tracky bottoms feeding burgers to their babies. Everytime I pass I see people just like my neighbours.
I use the drive through at Nuneaton as my daughter is scared by certain lighting in places so to queue with her would be a nightmare, there is always a queue at the drive through and it normally takes about 15 minutes start to finish.
I'm a fairly regular visitor (once a month) to McDonalds and always use the drive in. I can't stand their food and only go for the Milkshake, so seems pointless for me to get out and queue up.
Surely they have got up to get to their car to drive there? If they were that lazy they would get a takeaway delivered?
I'd say if we ever get a McDonalds 90% of the time it is a Takeaway, I'd much rather eat one at home than sit in McDonalds to eat it. It is usually if it's late and one of us is driving past and a bit of an emergency.
Jeez! Now I am not McDonalds biggest fan and have one probably 6-7 times a year at most but people have shit to do, that's why it makes a drive thru convenient. If I could get a drive thru healthy meal I'd always use it, mainly because I don't have time to go and dine.
I would imagine in most cases the drive thru takes longer than going in to be served.
Funny how people are getting snobbish about it - it's a successful franchise. Sets customer expectation at a low level as well. I don't go much as I'm not a huge Burger fan (but we eat plenty of trash like Pizza Hut which has as much resemblance to a pizza as a McDonald's burger does to fillet steak) but I did go once and remember being actually pleased the burger was hot.
Can I just add, this thread for me wasn't anything to with any kind of snobbery, it was just about the lack of social interaction and the feeling of laziness and almost a non human experience.
Do people really go to eat inside Mcdonalds for social interaction or just because they are hungry? Is going through a Drive Through really non human?
Choosing them because they can't be arsed with what? I don't get the problem? People usually get a McDonalds because they can't be arsed to cook, or are in a rush. It is a lazy option, I am pretty sure it is one of the main reasons that people get them.
People are busy nowadays.
It is a lazy option, I am pretty sure it is one of the main reasons that people get them.
If we're honest, any takeaway of ready meal is the lazy option, isn't it.
If we're honest, any takeaway of ready meal is the lazy option, isn't it.
As I said Nick, I found it non-human. Perhaps it's just me like I said. To talk to someone through and intercom and then just drive off. I found it all rather surreal.
Don't know why people are seemingly having a bit of a go ...I did say 'is it just me?' It probably is just me. I just found the whole episode cold and empty. And yep, we do go into McDonald's to be social. The kids go on the tablets and we sit there and talk face to face. It's not ideal, cause I don't like McDonald's but the girls do have a very good experience there.
That's a bit of a different scenario isn't it as you are going there with others and talking to them. There may be 3 people in a car who are socialising while eating a drive through.
I am not too sure what you would want to feel like after ordering fast food? I'm not having a go I am just confused
Because when you are out it's a different social interaction. We are in our houses all the time aren't we. My family would always choose the going out option over the takeaway or delivery option. It's a different experience.
Weh we did the drive thru we just picked up the food and came back home. The girls didn't have the fun they have when we go into the restaurant.
Isn't it a bit non human to be discussing this behind a computer screen, perhaps we should all meet up at Mcdonalds to discuss this in person.
But then not everybody has the time do they? If I've been at work all day and have been non stop, absolutely knackered I might not want to go and sit in a restaurant. I'd just want to come home, have a shower, get comfortable and have something delivered. Or just pick something up on the way home and come home and eat it.
Otherwise to go out it would be come home, have a shower, get changed. Wife have shower, get changed, daughter get changed. Then by the time I am home and ready it is 6 - 6.30, by the time we get there, seated and ordered it is 7.15, food comes at 7.45, eat and faff about it's 8.30, sort the bill and pay it's 8.45. Get home it's 9, daughter still worked up and excited, she gets to sleep at 10.
Then compare it to order a takeaway before I leave work at 5 - 5.30, get home and it's here for 6. Plate it up and eat it, job done.
If it is a pre arranged thing "lets go out for a meal" then it is a different scenario.
Basically all I am saying is it is a worse experience isn't it if you have chosen drive thru simply because you can't be arsed to go in and do have the time, are not in a rush and there's no other reason. If you could go in, but simply choose not to because you simply cannot be bothered to get your arses out of the car.
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