In article
anford.edu, Al
Eisner wrote:


However, in my initial comment I was certainly emphasizing the "fast".
In'n'Out is rarely fast, even if the line to order is short. If I order
a burger at a place I think we'd all agree is non-fast-food, such as
The Counter or Kirk's on the mid-peninsula **, it doesn't take any signifi-
cantly longer to arrive than it does at IN'n'Out, although perhaps you
would distinguish those places by their table-service (or at least
table-delivery).

In-N-Out does a very healthy drive-through business. Indeed, this is
pretty much how they started, in the layouts which lasted into the
1990s.

I call any place with a drive-through lane, that is popular, a fast
food place.


--Tim May