Re: Brooklyn Park - General Topics
Posted: February 19th, 2021, 7:04 pm
Drive Thru and Take-Out only Taco Bell proposed at 90th and Zane
https://www.brooklynpark.org/wp-content ... Packet.pdf
COVID seems to be accelerating a trend that's started already in quick serve restaurants, even more away from dining rooms and towards drive-thrus than has been done already. Taco Bell does more of it's business indoors than other QSRs, and unlike others they've opened their dining room when allowed. But still they're proposing a new design with no dining room at all, a kitchen on top of a quadruple drive through, with one lane for conventional ordering and payment and three lanes for app pickups. You'll pull into the parking lot and park, check in, and then be directed to drive to one of three lanes. Unlike the Mankato Dunkin', there will be a very small lobby and counter for walk up orders.
Drive thrus and grocery pickup / delivery are already probably by far the safest methods of getting food in a pandemic, and here the app lanes will apparently deliver food down to the vehicle level via dumbwaiter, completely eliminating dangerous person to person contact. I used to go to Chipotle fairly regularly, but now there's no way I can get a burrito without taking a physical risk by entering the store (they don't deliver to my address), so I don't. Newer locations are building "Chipotlane" drive-thrus for app pickups, the company announced that going forward 70% of new locations would have them.
The pandemic will end sometime, but it's woken QSRs up to how expendable their dining room is relative to the space it takes, the work to keep it clean, and creating a hazard making their employees sick whether COVID or the flu or something else. They're probably thinking their could be another pandemic during the life of the structure, and that people may not immediately or never revert to old habits. I've gone to online grocery pickup rather than risk my life entering a grocery store, and I'm never going back to in-person grocery shopping again.
https://www.brooklynpark.org/wp-content ... Packet.pdf
COVID seems to be accelerating a trend that's started already in quick serve restaurants, even more away from dining rooms and towards drive-thrus than has been done already. Taco Bell does more of it's business indoors than other QSRs, and unlike others they've opened their dining room when allowed. But still they're proposing a new design with no dining room at all, a kitchen on top of a quadruple drive through, with one lane for conventional ordering and payment and three lanes for app pickups. You'll pull into the parking lot and park, check in, and then be directed to drive to one of three lanes. Unlike the Mankato Dunkin', there will be a very small lobby and counter for walk up orders.
Drive thrus and grocery pickup / delivery are already probably by far the safest methods of getting food in a pandemic, and here the app lanes will apparently deliver food down to the vehicle level via dumbwaiter, completely eliminating dangerous person to person contact. I used to go to Chipotle fairly regularly, but now there's no way I can get a burrito without taking a physical risk by entering the store (they don't deliver to my address), so I don't. Newer locations are building "Chipotlane" drive-thrus for app pickups, the company announced that going forward 70% of new locations would have them.
The pandemic will end sometime, but it's woken QSRs up to how expendable their dining room is relative to the space it takes, the work to keep it clean, and creating a hazard making their employees sick whether COVID or the flu or something else. They're probably thinking their could be another pandemic during the life of the structure, and that people may not immediately or never revert to old habits. I've gone to online grocery pickup rather than risk my life entering a grocery store, and I'm never going back to in-person grocery shopping again.