Driving bike thru fast food drive up during quarantine era

I visit LB store yesterday and they are crazy busy, have a lot of no touch rules and service bikes not ridden in years. Nice selection of e-bikes.

Last 4 weeks I ride more and since we must stay at home, using bike paths to move makes sense. Today I hit Taco bell and no greeting at the speaker. Wait and yell, nothing. Ride to window and get lecture. We don't serve walk ups. (lobby closed)
So I ask if they will take my order. "We don't serve walk ups" So I hit it. I am not walking. She lied when she inferred I walked.

Only motorized vehicles. So I pointed to motor. Truth is I told her my daughter has a doctorate in electrical engineering and can confirm it is a motor.
5 people near the window and one car behind me. So I new there was pressure to get rid of me. I am in my 70's and have all the time in the world to chat about our differences. So I got the we don't serve walk up rejection again. Manager says so. Let me talk to the MGR. Then they decided to sell me my tacos. I told her, i practiced in a CPA firm after grad school, don't treat me like if I am ignorant.

2 other Taco bells visits this month were no problem. So when she said "we can't serve you" I reacted.
"don't tell me can't other TB's can" (can't is a dirty word at our house)

Classic case of discrimination. 2 weeks ago i got lectured after my order was filled at a Burger King. We don't serve unless in motorized vehicle. Again I pointed to my motor and said their excuse failed.

The new world order is they lay off half their workers, sales down 75% and they do not adapt with flexible new practices.

Chick-Fil-A has been just awesome. One Sonic sent out their helper to tell me off. I had ordered on the app and sent her back to get a better solution.
4 other Sonic visits no problem
I wonder if Taco Bell would have the nerve to confront an old person riding an electric wheel chair scooter?

If you ride a lot of miles, you will encounter a rude driver. I ride more and not surprised to encounter rude service. I never tried drive-up before isolation because I don't eat while riding.
 
I guess that I'm not understanding the current desire by folks to eat at restaurants. Seems these restaurant employees don't make high wages, and may already be living at the edge of their financial means. So if they weren't feeling well, would they voluntarily not go into work, and stop bringing home a paycheck?

Just too much risk for my 'taste' right now.
 
Oh, and your bike likely doesn't have enough ferrous metal content to trip the wire loop embedded in the driveway at all fast food places. Some are more sensitive than others. The folks inside the restaurant never knew you were at the order kiosk.

One excuse I heard was weight of vehicle is the switch.
 
I got hollered at 20 or 30 years ago for trying to do a drive up order on my bike at a McDonald's. Haven't tried it since. As for Chic Fil A, I avoid them and Hobby Lobby like the plague. I really do not need to hear about their religious views to buy a pencil or get an order of fries. Keep that to yourself folks.
 
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Been wondering about that. Since I don't drive a car I haven't had a restaurant meal this year. If you are homeless, the local charity will deliver (bad) food to your campsite in their repainted ambulance. I own my home, so I go into the store and carry food out at my own risk. Also a lot of places won't take cash anymore. I don't like being tracked everywhere by google.
BTW none of the traffic lights in this town will sense my 75 lb metal bicycle. The one by Amazon will wait forever before it gives me a green light to stop the 70 mph cross traffic.
 
Thinking we can't have it both ways - wanting ebikes to be classified as bicycles rather than motorized vehicles when we want to ride on bike paths, but wanting to be classified as motorized vehicles rather than bicycles when we want to use the drive through line ;).
 
McWalk, McRide

I'm shocked while reading your report @JuicePower. See the Polish perspective: The businesses in Poland need customers more than ever now. McWalk and McRide have become common in my country but it was same years ago when someone wanted to buy some fast-food but the restaurant itself was closed. It hasn't been just limited to McDonalds but Burger King, KFC etc. serve walk ups and ride ups as well.

See the people in the queue to our local McDonald's, observing social distancing.

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Truck drivers, who are our lifeline right now, are having a hard time with eating. They can't use drive thrus and as stated can't walk up. The truck stop restaurants are closed. Some states are allowing food trucks to set up at rest areas.

Before the pandemic, I read where one coffee company was only going to serve drive up customers because they had been robbed a couple of times by walk ups.

One time, I was going to go to the local Dairy Queen for a treat but there was no place to lock up my bike and no outside seating. It made it easier to avoid eating not good for me stuff.
 
Keep your immune system up, don't eat cr-ap. Stock the fridge once a week and make healthy meals, it is not that difficult. Except for those on the road all the time like truck drivers, there is usually no excuse not to do so.
 
2nd the motion. I have a Taco Bell 2 blocks from my house, never go. I like Tex-mex food. Taco Bell isn't it. They had a lite taco once that didn't make me belch, but they deleted it. One memorable trip with the step-kids, they wanted to eat in Taco Bell all the way to Disney World & back. I survived.
 
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