{"id":12,"date":"2007-08-02T07:56:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/drive-through-bill-of-rights\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T08:24:40","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T14:24:40","slug":"drive-through-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/drive-through-bill-of-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive Through Bill Of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hardly ever go to fast food joints and eat inside. I usually go get the food and bring it back home or to work. So I have a lot of experience with drive through lanes at most of the fast food places. After yet another sub-par experience at a drive through tonight, I finally decided to write something about it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Drive Through Bill Of Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All customers are entitled to have the following from the fast food place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Their order read back to them (unless there&#8217;s an electronic display of the order)<\/li>\n<li>Clear sounding audio from the drive-up speaker<\/li>\n<li>A native English speaker or someone without a heavy accent taking the order<\/li>\n<li>A napkin, spoon, knife, or fork without having to ask for it<\/li>\n<li>A drink cup not overfilled so that when you put the straw in, it comes out the straw hole<\/li>\n<li>Your food or drink <em>inside<\/em> the wrapper or cup, not dripping on the container<\/li>\n<li>Your order prepared the way you ask, and fulfilled correctly<\/li>\n<li>Speedy service (anything over 90 seconds from when you are asked to pull forward is excessive)<\/li>\n<li>The amount owed given to you before you pull up to the payment window<\/li>\n<li>The contents of a &#8220;large&#8221; item to be of greater quantity than the contents of a &#8220;small&#8221; or &#8220;medium&#8221; item<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re asked to pull around because they&#8217;re cooking something (e.g. fries), then they should wait until that item is ready before packaging the other items<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a corollary, customers should give other customers in line the following considerations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No more than 2 feet between cars; if you can parallel park between your car and the car in front of you, <strong>pull up<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Pay attention; don&#8217;t make the folks behind you wait while you fiddle around when you should be pulling forward<\/li>\n<li>Know what you want when you get to the speaker<\/li>\n<li>Have the money ready when you get to the window<\/li>\n<li>No more than two separate orders per car<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more. Leave me a comment if you have any and I&#8217;ll add them as an update to this post.<\/p>\n<p>[Note: I originally posted this on December 18, 2006]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hardly ever go to fast food joints and eat inside. I usually go get the food and bring it back home or to work. So I have a lot of experience with drive through lanes at most of the fast food places. After yet another sub-par experience at a drive through tonight, I finally &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/drive-through-bill-of-rights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drive Through Bill Of Rights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}