Not El Pollo Loco but when I lived in LA a Taco Bell wanted to add a drive through Window. I went to a zoning hearing with many of my neighbors and objected. Taco Bell was denied the permit. Instead they put an employee in the parking lot with a walkie-talkie another as a "runner" delivering orders and did a drive through without a window at lunch and dinner time. My street had a large increase in Taco Bell trash on our lawns from people who drove through, parked on my block ate in their cars and tossed the trash out their windows.

I have sympathy for the Santa Cruz law.