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Q: Are there any drive-thrus in China?

In Australia, we have drive-thru McDonalds, KFCs, restaurants, laundries, banks, bottle shops, supermarkets and many other such places. However, I can't recall seeing any such places in China.

 

Do they exist?

10 years 32 weeks ago in  Shopping - China

 
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think of the traffic jams if there were these in China.........not to mention the honking, shouting and people cutting each other off

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I doubt a Chinese driver could actually steer him or herself through one of those fast food drive thru's. And to get close enough to hand the money over? Or wanting to barter the price?

Seems one of the sensible things in China - NOT to have drive thru's which is an affirmation by those in power that the locals can't drive!

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i have seen an advertisement on a television inside macdonalds that shows a drive thru and a chinese family getting food, somewhere in china, but i have never seen one in reality,

car commercials here show you driving fast in moutains and valleys with no one around, cant imagine driving a car anywhere 15 minutes with out seeing another car in china.

in alaska i could drive 3 hours with out seeing another car.

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Same out on the Nullarbor in Australia

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I saw one in Tianjin 6 months ago....McDonald's.  Funny it went right through the building almost like underground parking.

Before this in 3 years I never saw one.

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They can't get it right at the counter and drive-thrus are worse. The place would probably get rid of the garbage by giving it to drive-thru customers.

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Back in the 70's we could just pull up to the bottle shop and the attendant would bring open a nice cold cracked open beer to our car. Those were the days!

 

But no, never seen a drive-thru here. There is good delivery service from almost any restaurant where I am at, so maybe they only actually GO to the restaurant if they want to eat there. Otherwise, it's delivery.

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Sorry, sheltered American here, but what's a bottle shop?  Aussie beer joint/pit stop?

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It would be sheer carnage. Can you imagine someone trying to overtake the car in front to get to the counter first? Jeez, the thought of it doesn't bear thinking about.

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I've seen one in China....I believe it was a Mcdonalds drive thru. It surprised me the first time I saw it. I don't own a car here so I wouldn't be able to use it anyways. Plus, it's super far away from where I stay. 

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Use your 3 wheeled bicycle.

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I've only seen it at one KFC and one mcdonald's around here. Luckily my girlfriend has only been driving me there later at night. During the day, it would probably take forever to place and order and then pick it up 

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Some McDonalds in Foshan and the Panyu District of Guangzhou have drive-thrus.  Never seen any other drive-thrus besides McD's, though.

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Saw one in Qingdao. Think it was KFC

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I would love a drive thru Wendys, but none yet

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There is a drive through McDonalds here in little ol Changsha up on Wanjalia Rd.

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It must have happened at least once in this country that some dude has plowed his motorized vehicle through a McDonalds, if not on purpose then by accident. 

Imagine where the packing would go. The streets or garbage cans?

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