{"id":11823,"date":"2014-12-11T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11823"},"modified":"2015-04-29T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:14:13","slug":"drive-thrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/drive-thrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Thrus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/121114_1303_DriveThrus1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brad Tuttle assembled 10 facts about drive-thrus. Some of the more interesting ones include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drive-thrus are getting slower. This year the average wait time is a record 203 seconds. Centives has previously noted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-much-you-value-your-time-in-a-fast-food-line\/\">for every extra second that customers have to wait at a drive-thru, restaurants have to lower their prices by four cents<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Drive-thrus are quickest in the morning when people have fairly simple orders for coffee, and during the mid-afternoon &#8216;snack&#8217; hours.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;re slowest during lunch when people are likely to order for multiple people and menus usually expand to include more items.<\/li>\n<li>Wendy&#8217;s has the quickest drive-thru. Chick-fil-A has the most accurate drive-thru with 87% of drive-thru orders being correct.<\/li>\n<li>The first drive-thru opened in 1947. McDonald&#8217;s opened its first drive-thru several decades later in 1975.<\/li>\n<li>40% of Starbucks locations now have drive-thrus and this proportion is set to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Chipotle refuses to open drive-thrus. Analysts argue that it would destroy the experience of being able to see the fresh ingredients being put together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other facts, find out which restaurant has the least accurate drive-thru, and find out why Panera studied drive-thrus for ten years before deciding to introduce one over <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/money\/3478752\/drive-thru-fast-food-fast-casual\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/money\/3478752\/drive-thru-fast-food-fast-casual\/\">Time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Tuttle assembled 10 facts about drive-thrus. Some of the more interesting ones include: Drive-thrus are getting slower. This year the average wait time is a record 203 seconds. Centives has previously noted that for every extra second that customers have to wait at a drive-thru, restaurants have to lower their prices by four cents. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-11823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/121114_1303_DriveThrus1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11826,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11823\/revisions\/11826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}