General: fast food drive thru

not that i should be riding and eating taco bell or anyother garbage food but sometimes late night thats all thats available. apparently you cannot get served a meal unless your in an actual car. I sometimes find a nice enough worker too hook me up but most of the time i get yelled at and denied food being drive thrus stay open later than the lobby. I feel like this is breaking the law or something. Its really not dangerous being cars should be going faster than 5mph through there anyway. any cycle lawyers on here?

Yeah, I've gotten yelled at by Wendy's. You have to actually ride up to the window, so it mostly depends how nice the person inside is. They let motorcycles through.

the may be a problem but it's not the issue, it's that when they do know you're there they refuse your business. what sort of message is that sending to the public?

I haven't had that problem lately since I don't eat fast food, being a vegetarian there isn't much choice in fastfood

taco bell is actually surprisingly veg friendly...i believe the al fresco is a vegan option..but it is still some nasty as shit from a bag

I've been denied and yelled at at every late night drive up except for the Del Taco near my house.
The white guy that sounds like a black guy and the guy we call Mustache-io are cool to me and my friends.
I considered writing to corporate or the owner to show some love.

Screw the drive thru

I just run in there and grab a Feed Bag

Posted By: LyKqiDScrew the drive thru

I just run in there and grab aFeed Bag

I heard Chrome was coming out with something like that.

Posted By: iron jaidenhonestly you can get away with it if you don't sit there at the glowing menu waiting for someone to answer. just roll up to the window and hit em up. they'll very rarely tell you to fuck off to your face.

i'm vegan so there's ain't a goddamn drive-thru in the world i'd be able to eat anything at but like 12 years ago i remember doing this a bunch of times at taco bell in D.C. and nobody gave a shit unless i stood there at the menu with no car. then they'd be like "sorry sir you need a car to use the drive-thru, have a nice night".

I believe the bean burritos at taco bell are vegan if you get them without cheese. I don't know, though. I don't eat there.

^agreed. i'm not sure where you're from iron jaiden but a quick denial is common practice in my neck of the woods. i hear what greg's saying, i fully agree with spending my $ where it's appreciated but the situation isn't often other-option friendly.

once i even called arby's to ask when they close, 11pm. i rode the few miles and once i got there (starving and sick) i was denied because the drive thru was open until 11, lobby at 10. i couldn't believe it.

Posted By: gunssforhireyeah i get shut down constantly i just feel like this could easily be petitioned or unlawful in some way. denying someone the only availlabe source of food at night based upon theyre transportation is rediculous.

Honestly, it isnt that ridiculous... I hate to play the devils advocate but we have all seen the Above the Influene PSA where the little girl on the tricycle gets hit. Well next time that might not be a little girl on a tricycle, but a 22 yr old on his fixed gear at 2:00am

But seriously, you have as good a chance of getting served on your bike as you do walking up there. It really is just a matter of who is at the window.

Posted By: gunssforhirethat logic saying a car can hit you in the drive thru is no different than a car can hit you on the road?

I wish I could find that Above the Influence PSA, it illustrates it so clearly. And who isnt drunk or stoned going to taco bell or wendy's at 1:00am.

ive seen the PSA its not saying the little girl getting hit is at fault its the wasted asshole driving 20mph through the drive thru

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Posted By: iron jaidenhonestly you can get away with it if you don't sit there at the glowing menu waiting for someone to answer. just roll up to the window and hit em up. they'll very rarely tell you to fuck off to your face.

i'm vegan so there's ain't a goddamn drive-thru in the world i'd be able to eat anything at but like 12 years ago i remember doing this a bunch of times at taco bell in D.C. and nobody gave a shit unless i stood there at the menu with no car. then they'd be like "sorry sir you need a car to use the drive-thru, have a nice night".

I believe the bean burritos at taco bell are vegan if you get them without cheese. I don't know, though. I don't eat there.

Yeah but dude if I'm gonna spend my hard earned at a place like TacoBell I might as well just buy the meat. Money goes to the same horrible shit regardless of what I'm eating there. I'm not vegan because I'm lactose intolerant or can't digest pork properly. I'm vegan cause I ain't about animals getting fucked over like they do. TacoBell = not where vegans eat. :)

Posted By: cloud^agreed. i'm not sure where you're from iron jaiden but a quick denial is common practice in my neck of the woods. i hear what greg's saying, i fully agree with spending my $ where it's appreciated but the situation isn't often other-option friendly.

once i even called arby's to ask when they close, 11pm. i rode the few miles and once i got there (starving and sick) i was denied because the drive thru was open until 11, lobby at 10. i couldn't believe it.

I'm from Washington, D.C. I think in my adult life I've literally eaten at a chain fast food place 10 times. I've been vegan for over a decade now and VERY deliberate about where my money gets spent. I wouldn't eat at a TacoBell if it were fuckin free. But funny enough I do remember riding bikes through the TacoBell drive through probably 8 of the 10 times I even ate at one of those places and getting treated like a goofball, but served for sure.

Posted By: lickedwickedthat means fast food drive thru let fatasses eat and drive, but don't let cyclists. they're promoting fatness and unhealthiness in the customers.

this is news?

Posted By: the rabbi

Posted By: lickedwickedthat means fast food drive thru let fatasses eat and drive, but don't let cyclists. they're promoting fatness and unhealthiness in the customers.

this is news?

at the same time stopping people who want to be fat and reducing the oppertunities for profit.

like sonic

i have like 5 and they all have a giant outdoor building where you can walk or ride up and order

sounds like a good idea.

it is called "drive". I wonder if carriages pulled by horses would get served or not.

Posted By: lickedwickedit is called "drive". I wonder if carriages pulled by horses would get served or not.

It is called "this thread is about people who ride bikes and want to be served food after hours just like anyone driving a car, not to mention this site is about BICYCLES"

Great try though

Posted By: mbpauleyMaybe along with a drive thru, fast food places could also have a "walk thru" of sorts, where it would just basically be a window outside where you walk up and order like you would at the counter inside. They really only close the lobby to save themselves the work of keeping it clean after hours, and since they are already willing to continue making food for people in the drive thru, this would not be much of a hassle at all. And of course the suits up high would love the potential profit, especially if their company was the first to do so.

Hate to tell you all this because seems to me like many of you are city dwellers; but out here in the "fly-over zone" many of the "fast food" restraunts and the Mom & Pops have always been this way. Not the big timers like McD, Wendy's etc, but the small ice cream or burger joints have now and always have had walk-up windows. Many of them don't even have inside seating, you eat outside on a picnic table with maybe an umbrella overhead.. You order at the window, pay and get your food at the same window. If they are high-speed, they have a order window and a pick-up window.

i think it should really be retitled a ' waddle thru ' . I do have to give the land whales some credit for wanting to get their daily exercise in while waddling to get the quadruple size 'value' meal. quite honestly I am surprised it took them so long to come up with this http://www.theonion.com/content/video/new_wearable_feedbags_let