When you go to the drive through window at a fast food restaurant how do they know you are there to order?

Question

I have always wondered this...when you go to McDonald's or any fast food restaurant's drive through window, how do they know when you are sitting there ready to order? Is there some sort of sensor? Are there cameras?

Answer 1

There are cameras and also when you drive to the speaker the weight of the auto trips a beeper at the workers' station. They hear the beep on their headset or from a mounted unit that is used to take orders. Simple.

Answer 2

They have sensors at the speaker.

Much like the sensors are traffic lights (there they have a sign saying "stop here to activate signal"

Answer 3

when you drive over the sensor the headset buzzes.and they can hear you. I remember once a lady drove up and started swearing at her kids. I guess some people dont realize that we can hear them as soon as they drive up.

Answer 4

Well, they train the drive thru people that take your order in many ways. One of them includes sensing when people are at the drive thru speaker. It takes a lot of training but after a while, they get good at it. =D

Answer 5

i've got in no way been brave adequate to. Who knows of what that they had put in that "water." Plus, did you learn the lady who discovered a quickly nutrition eating place replaced into piping in water with extra micro organism than the bathroom water to make their ice cubes?? No way, no longer touching that stuff.

Answer 6

there is a sensor under the pavement... when you drive over it, it alerts the drive thru employee.

Answer 7

When I used to work at Wendy's you could hear the car pull up to the intercom when you had your headset on

Answer 8

Sensors... and some have cameras.

Answer 9

sensors in the pavement

Answer 10

there is a midget inside the voice box peeking to see if anyone wants to order,