Interesting Statistic about El Pollo Loco
Jun 19, 2010 | 3:49 pm
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Jun 22, 2010 | 7:23 pm
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I hate localities that think there's something wrong with fast food, or drive-thrus, or happy meals. I gladly bypass anyplace that doesn't have a drive-thru. Count your blessings if your Santa Cruz eatery doesn't have a drive-thru, you could be in Fairfax County, VA. and have to drive miles to find one.
Jun 22, 2010 | 9:34 pm
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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.
I have sympathy for the Santa Cruz law.
Jun 23, 2010 | 5:56 am
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Jun 23, 2010 | 11:42 am
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Traffic concerns.
Not just food places, but cleaners and drug stores for example get denied because the planners feel they are in a "mixed use" area, where foot traffic is important, and a drive thru does not promote that.
Increased noise to the neighbors, things like that.
Cases have gone as far as state supreme courts when they were denied (Dunkin doughnuts against the town of Hempstead NY for example)
Not just food places, but cleaners and drug stores for example get denied because the planners feel they are in a "mixed use" area, where foot traffic is important, and a drive thru does not promote that.
Increased noise to the neighbors, things like that.
Cases have gone as far as state supreme courts when they were denied (Dunkin doughnuts against the town of Hempstead NY for example)
Jun 23, 2010 | 11:55 am
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Traffic concerns.
Not just food places, but cleaners and drug stores for example get denied because the planners feel they are in a "mixed use" area, where foot traffic is important, and a drive thru does not promote that.
Increased noise to the neighbors, things like that.
Cases have gone as far as state supreme courts when they were denied (Dunkin doughnuts against the town of Hempstead NY for example)
Not just food places, but cleaners and drug stores for example get denied because the planners feel they are in a "mixed use" area, where foot traffic is important, and a drive thru does not promote that.
Increased noise to the neighbors, things like that.
Cases have gone as far as state supreme courts when they were denied (Dunkin doughnuts against the town of Hempstead NY for example)
Jun 23, 2010 | 11:55 am
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They wanted to expand the size of the building and in the City of Los Angeles there is a minimum parking requirement related to size of building and business type and the expansion of the building to add the drive through made their parking too small so they had to ask for a variance which the neighbors opposed.
Jul 15, 2010 | 10:11 pm
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If you live in a driving city, like I do in PHX. A fast food restaurant not in a mall will die if it doesn't have a drive-thru. I'd say that 90% of all the fast food I order in PHX is done at a drive-thru.
Go inside to order food? The next thing you know they'll want you to have a license to drive, or wear clothing outside the house? Sheesh!
Go inside to order food? The next thing you know they'll want you to have a license to drive, or wear clothing outside the house? Sheesh!