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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If you want to be more accurate it is a Drive Next to, unless you drive through the building to get your food.

Oil change places where you don't get out of your car are drive through, everywhere else is a drive next to.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You drive through the line not the building

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

You mean you drive along the line not through it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Car washes too!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The etymology follows the drive-in which is basically a big parking lot you drive in to, do your ordering/eating/movie watching in your car, and then you drive out. And when you don't stop in the middle of a drive in, but instead you continue through it, in your car, it became a drive through.

The pedantic term is a drive-up, btw.