Does your town have a local-drive-in-car hop "fast food" place?

In OKC there is one named Coit's. Yellow Rubber Duckie knows what I'm talking about. They have two locations. It is like a Sonic only it was around long before Sonic. Not a franchise, so their inventory is probably purchased mostly locally.

Anyway, it is like fast food that is much closer to homemade. They are famous for their root beer served in frosty mugs and hotdogs with Schwab's chili.

A big hot rod club meets there and hangs out once or twice a year, because Coit's has been around since the late 40's, I think (was never far from Route 66).

They serve breakfast (with biscuits made from scratch), chicken, burgers, fries made from real taters, etc. . . . .

I am just wondering how rare, or dying, this type of business is.

Ah . . . . if they only had tacos on their menu. :)

I always eat inside when I go, but they do have drive-in service.

Coit's also has inside seating too, but it is a smaller area.

They are a local chain (or at least I've only seen them in the NJ area) but most of them have the serve you in your car service. Nothing like a pork roll with cheese and a frosty root beer in the summer!

in Columbus, OH when I was growing up. Has long since been gone.

Best damn grilled pork roll in the state. Better than in Seaside, better than Point Pleasant. Hot rods and hot dogs.

Everything has been replaced by drive through.

in Goodman, MO...we got one gas station, and two restaurants, neither are drive thru, and one closes before 2pm every day....

It's too early for me to be thinkin' about rootbeer, but _you_ started it, Floog. :cry:

Whatever that may or may not be.

Tastes wonderful. :)

other than that, no.

The car clubs meet there on Friday nights. Some sweet rides parked in that parking lot!!

which I don't like, there's Johnnie's CharBroiler or (something like that) but it's newer to the carhop concept as far as I can tell. They've had a regular restaurant for awhile but now have put in a couple of smaller drive-in places.

And you're right, they have recently opened up drive-thrus with parking space menus and ordering.

Very high quality and a bit expensive. Good stuff.

:)

Brunswick, Me. The true first sign of Spring is when they open. Clam cakes, fried clams, burgers, hot dogs, frappes (milk shakes) & onion rings to die for. Sigh. They close for the Winter in October.

Hot rods and muscle cars every Monday night. Wonderful times and memories.

No car service, strictly drive through. Egg and sausage on scratch-made biscuits. Lunches too. And it's right aroung the corner from where I live!

The Bunyan Burger, onion rings, and a milkshake...

Best meal in town.

:)

Used to have classic car saturday nights. I used to live a block away and would walk down to the car shows.

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Maurice Bessenger's Piggy Park. This is an admittedly racist establishment so I never patronize the place.

Dates back to the 1930s or 1940s and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Home of the Paul Bunyan Burger Basket.

I believe it's still owned by the original family that built it.

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now THIS is where we should do lunch next time. :hi:

That's all we have and I'm one of the carhops. Believe it or not, we carhops actually make good tips. It's a fun job and I make pretty good money for a part timing college student.

Is that about normal?

About half the people don't tip, about a quarter tip the amount of coins they have left and the last quarter tip a dollar or more. But there's so many orders to take out per day that it still adds up to a good amount of dough.