There’s something quintessentially American about gliding through a menu board at 2 PM, shouting your order through a speaker, and collecting steaming hot fries, all without unbuckling your seatbelt.

While the ordering rush outside the four walls was hardly a pandemic trigger, it did create lasting consumer habits. The National Restaurant Association’s latest 2025 Off-Premises Restaurant Trends ...

What began nearly a century ago as a banking innovation has become a staple of American convenience. Drive-thrus, first introduced by banks in the 1930s, helped shape a landscape now dominated by fast ...

Fast food drive-thrus are typically convenient, often open late, and, most importantly, pretty fast. Places compete to be faster and better than their competitors, but only one can reign supreme as ...