carhop

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After class, she would take everyone home before heading to her second job as a carhop at Sonic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

The Valley’s self-regard also sustains the Valley Relics Museum, where the Valley of yore and lore, of carhop drive-ins and a celebrated honky-tonk called the Palomino, live on in their neon signs.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2021

Three years ago, he was a carhop at a Sonic Drive-In in Garland, Tex.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018

By World War II, carhop service was common at drive-up restaurants offering fare such as burgers and ice cream loats, some brought out by roller-skating waitresses.

From Time • Jul. 4, 2016

My high school friends would still have been whining over boyfriends and fighting for carhop jobs at the A&W. Their idea of a dog-eat-dog world was Beauty School.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver