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Wednesday 29 May 2013

Drive through fast food

By George Dodson


If you were a kid in the early 1960's or have watched movies and films with the retro theme then you're probably familiar with drive through restaurants. At one time, these were all the rage. Waiters back then were called "Car hops" wherein all of them were sexy ladies. Each of these "car hops" wore their own respective uniforms or costumes whenever they're on service. To get the food to the customers faster, some wore skates.

Simply stop your car near the "carp hop" window and let her take your order. She would bring the food to your car on a special tray that hook onto your window. As soon as you finish eating your food you can just throw your trash on the tray which the car hop will collect as soon as you blow your car horn. Drive throughs were basically used in most of the beach boy movie settings and a few establishments went very famous because of this.

A few of the commonly served food in drive through restaurants are fries, hotdogs, burgers, softdrinks like coke and pepsi and many more. In some places you can order chicken or grilled cheese sandwich.

Most of the drive-ins these days have modernized. Unfortunately, "car hops" with cute uniforms and cool skates is no longer utilized with todays drive-in restaurants. Still, some local entrepreneurs try to keep up a time-honored tradition. They try to keep the set up as simple as possible and the rates as convenient as can be for consumers. Still, others are major companies with drive-ins around the nation. With all that said, which is the best drive-in food?

Among the most successful drive-ins in history is "Sonic". These modern drive-ins have their own specialty menus, they can even let you pass a drive through window where you can choose and pay for your order. Gone are the days when they bring trays that fit on your window. Most the food is brought to your car in a bag.

Deciding which drive-in food is the best is probably a very personal choice. Considering the oldest food served on restaurants, hamburgers seem to stand out and most favored. For most of these drive-ins, the burger is easy to fix, and easy to price competitively.

Other renowned drive-in restaurants like A&W as well as Dairy Queen however offer various other foods for their customers. Most of the customers who go to these drive-ins, are therefore a specific food such as a specialized burger, or some special fries. Modern drive-ins feature specialty foods which consumer can easily take note of. A good example of these special foods in menus is the "Six dollar burger" from Carl Junior's drive-in restaurant.

Over the years, such drive-ins as Dairy Queen, specialized in ice cream. Others, such as A&W root beer, favor root beer over most of the food that they served.

The Burger King double whopper is also something that each drive-in customer is looking forward to because of its size and its meaty taste. Yet again, we can see through here that burgers have the most variations and therefore has the most right to voted the best drive-in food.

Many people have been concerned about the ingredients in some of these foods, and such stores like McDonald's began serving healthier meals such as salads and fruits. Fortunately, this alternative works for customers as well.




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