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<p>There just seems to be soooo much wrong with this. What kind of message does this send our kids??? That in order for fast food restaurants to stay in business and make a profit, they have to serve alcohol?</p>
<p>I’m more concerned with the “Drive-In” bit. That’s certainly not safe… I know in some states, drive-throughs can give you cups of alcoholic drinks, if they put a piece of tape over the straw.</p>
<p>As for just serving alcohol in the restaurant… Well, it’s beer and wine, not hard liquor. A beer or glass of wine or two can actually be healthy for you, as opposed to sodas.</p>
<p>Maybe alcohol is everywhere & maybe fast food is as “evil” as overindulging in booze? In our state, tough getting & keeping a liquor license. Yes, it is concerning that it would be a drive-through! Maybe ONLY the passenger drinks? Even so, there is not supposed to be an open container of alcohol in vehicles in our state.</p>
<p>This isn’t new, in some ways. I remember 35 years ago in Germany there were a few MacDonald’s popping up, and they all had beer and wine on the menu. Just a cultural difference. Many Germans expected to have a beer with their meal. Heck, the factories in Munich used to stop for a 15-minute beer break, once in the morning, once in the afternoon. “Brot zeit,” they called it, literally “bread time”; they just took their bread in liquid form.</p>
<p>I don’t patronize the big fast food chains all that often, but I don’t find it particularly shocking or objectionable that they’d add beer & wine to the menu. Not for take-out, certainly not for drive-thru, and probably not at locations close to schools, parks, and playgrounds where lots of kids hang out. But there are other kinds of “fast food” places where it’s not at all unusual to have beer and wine available, like the local taco shop, the mom-and-pop falafel-and-shawarma joint, and of course the pizzeria. So why not Burger King?</p>
<p>If they do it at a take-out, I’d expect the city or town to park a police cruiser near the exit. That should solve municipal budget problems.</p>
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Talk about an alternative to raising taxes!</p>
<p>Shucks. I thought this was an alternative to the weight loss and exercise threads!</p>
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Hah! My thoughts exactly.</p>
<p>To think that I’ll no longer have to drive my bag of $1 burgers back to my apartment to wash them down with a six pack. This really is the land of opportunity.</p>
<p>If only they could start selling adult happy meals with a burger, some fries, a beer, a cigar and back massage. Actually, if anybody wants to fund me, I’d open up a place like that tomorrow.</p>
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<p>Of the three McDonald’s in our town, one is right next to a park, and another has a PlayPlace in it.</p>
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<p>It is. What could be more anti-diet & exercise than burgers and beer?</p>
<p>My local Macdonalds serves beer on the tap and has since it first opened about 10 years ago.</p>
<p>I don’t see how it’s different than any other restaurant that offers alcohol. The article implies (but doesn’t explicitly state) that it’s only available for those in the sit-down portion of the restaurant which makes sense because I think most states have an ‘open container’ law whereby one wouldn’t be permitted to have it while sitting in their car - i.e. the drive-in part. </p>
<p>As far as influence on kids - well, there are plenty of kids already going to restaurants that serve alcohol so it’s not like they’re seeing something new.</p>
<p>FF places outside of Europe, including McDonalds, have been doing tis for years.</p>
<p>I don’t see anything wrong with it if it’s for seated patrons (and this is coming from someone who doesn’t drink).</p>
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<p>Down in north carolina they have brew thru’s. (a drive thru beer/wine store).</p>
<p>I am guessing the alcohol is just in the sit down portion of sonic as opposed to the have it delivered to your car portion. And I would bet they have a limit to how much you can drink or buy.</p>
<p>Burger King doesn’t have to serve alcohol to make a profit. There are privately-owned fast-food restaurants that pay their workers $10 an hour with full benefits and are very profitable. The catch is that there isn’t a huge market for fast-food joints that charge a little more in order to pay their people reasonable wages. Therefore, in order to grow to the ridiculous proportions that stockholders demand, national chains forgo making a big margin on a few locations in favor or slim margins on tens of thousands of locations.</p>
<p>Every town has good, locally-owned fast-food places that cost a little more than the national chains but give you better, more interesting food and are better for your local economy. Seek them out! Keep your dollars off Wall Street and on Main Street! Stick it to the man! (I know that sounds snarky, but I really mean it.)</p>
<p>On a different note, but the same general subject, have you ever been to a movie theater in which the seats are plush sofas and they serve beer and wine? They’re awesome! I’m not sure they have those outside of major cities, though.</p>
<p>I thought it was going to be “why bother with a bud light, if you’re going to eat a whopper?”</p>