drive-in restaurant

Example Sentences

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On Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, Tesla is building a combination drive-in restaurant, movie theater and charging station.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2024

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

One of the things Carter most misses about home is Swenson’s, a local drive-in restaurant best known for its large hamburgers and extra-thick milkshakes.

From Washington Times • Mar. 27, 2015

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