July 24, 2009
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Profile America — Friday, July 24th. This is National Drive-Thru Day — noting the popularity of restaurants that take orders by intercom and then hand them out a window to drivers while they remain behind the wheel. The first such service was the idea of Robert Peterson, at a Jack in the Box restaurant in San Diego in 1951. At the time, drive-in restaurants were very popular, where staff brought food to people who stayed in their parked cars. Some even brought out the food on roller skates, and the order was delivered to a tray attached to the car door. Today, drive-thrus are a feature of many of the nearly 187,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S., which generate $117 billion in sales each year. You can find these and more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureauonline at <www>.
Sources: Chase's Calendar of Events 2009, p. 375
www.jackinthebox.com
2002 Economic Census, NAICS 722211
http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/data/industry/E722211.HTM
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