drive-in restaurant
Example Sentences
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“I picked him up at a drive-in restaurant in Corpus Christi, Texas,” Josh laughs.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 25, 2022
Even after he remarried, he remained close to his first wife’s parents, and in 1991 he joined them to buy a drive-in restaurant in Buckley, Wash., a logging town southeast of Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2021
In the late 1950s my mom and her sister ran a drive-in restaurant in a small town on the west side of Michigan.
From Salon • May 23, 2019
After returning to Michigan, they opened a flying school and a drive-in restaurant, both of which failed, before selling Nutrilite vitamins in 1949.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2018
In 1937 they opened a drive-in restaurant in Pasadena, trying to cash in on the new craze, hiring three carhops and selling mainly hot dogs.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
