Definitions for drive-thru
drive-thru

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1. drive-thrunoun

   An establishment, such as a fast-food restaurant or bank, where clients may drive up to a window and conduct exchanges while remaining in their automobiles.

2. drive-thrunoun

   The location at such an establishment, where clients conduct their business from their vehicles.

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1. drive-thru

   A drive-through or drive-thru (a sensational spelling of the word through), is a type of take-out service provided by a business that allows customers to purchase products without leaving their cars. The format was pioneered in the United States in the 1930s, and has since spread to other countries. Hillcrest State Bank, Dallas, Texas, installed the first drive-through banking system in America. It was a George Dahl designed building, constructed in the 1920s, across from SMU. The second recorded use of a bank using a drive-up window teller was the Grand National Bank of St. Louis, Missouri in 1930. The drive-up teller allowed only deposits at that time.Orders are generally placed using a microphone and picked up in person at the window. A drive-through is different from a drive-in in several ways - the cars create a line and move in one direction in drive-throughs, and normally do not park, whereas drive-ins allow cars to park next to each other, the food is generally brought to the window by a server, called a carhop, and the customer can remain in the parked car to eat. However, during peak periods, to keep the queue down and avoid traffic flow problems, drive-throughs occasionally switch to an "order at the window, then park in a designated space" model where the customer will receive their food from an attendant when it is ready to be served. This results in a perceived relationship between the two service models. Drive-throughs have generally replaced drive-ins in popular culture, and are now found in the vast majority of modern American fast-food chains. Sometimes, a store with a drive-through is referred to as a "drive-through", or the term is attached to the service, such as, "drive-through restaurant". or "drive-through bank". Drive-throughs typically have signs over the drive-through lanes to show customers which lanes are open for business. The types of signage used is usually illuminated so the "open" message can be changed to a "closed" message when the lane is not available.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of drive-thru in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of drive-thru in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of drive-thru in a Sentence

1. Jerry Walkowiak:

   At Chick-fil-A, we're about being the most caring company in the world, and when Mayor Haynie asked us to come over, we took a look at what was Mayor Haynie drive-thru system, we saw a little hiccup in their drive-thru system, and we needed some more people, so we gathered some of the wonderful Rotary volunteers and went down there and just was able to expedite the registration part.

2. Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins:

   We will have drive-thru voting open tomorrow. We will count those votes. And we want to make clear that voter access in Harris County and in America is a constitutional right that we will protect, we will give voters on Election Day the same rights, the same conveniences that every other voter has had during the early voting period.

3. Mark Moraitakis:

   It’s all about speed and accuracy, but we know our customers appreciate that we can be nice while being fast and accurate, eye contact and smiling go a long way in the drive-thru experience.

4. Carol Alvarado:

   What’s wrong with drive-thru voting during a pandemic? What’s wrong with 24-hour voting? Why can’t we have expanded voting hours for the people who have to work late? Where is all the so-called fraud? where does it end?

5. Mari Agredano-Quirino:

   Finally, a few blocks down, we see him pulling into the (drive-thru) of a burger place.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Drive-Thru
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-Thru