Do restaurants have cameras in their drive-thru? If not, how do they know they have a customer?

Question

Do restaurants have cameras in their drive-thru? If not, how do they know they have a customer?

Answer 1

they do have cameras

Answer 2

At a lot of drive thrus have a weight sesnor; which is why if a bicycle comes up or a per son walks up, no one comes on the intercom, but for a car, it does. 99.9% of drive thrus use both the sensor and the cameras.

Answer 3

I heard they have a sensor you pass in your car and it notifies the workers inside that someone is present in the drive through

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Answer 4

alot of restruants have camaras, like ALOT of mcdonalds have camaras facing the drive thru.

but they arent going to stare at the tv waiting for a car to pull up.

when a car runs over that sensor, the workers inside who are wearing a headset will hear a loud BEEP. and then the worker greets them and take their order.

Answer 5

Yes, they do.  In fact, there are several cameras in most Fast Food drive-thru places.   Some also use a motion-detector device and/or a sensor in the ground where the cars pass over it.

Answer 6

i think there might be a camera if not then they have a sensor that tells when a car is there

Answer 7

It really depends what restaurant.  I know most Taco Bells have cameras (i've seen them). I worked at Wendy's and we had a mirror that was angled so we could see if someone was there but it was also the sensor. As soon as somebody would pull up it would alert our head set and make a REALLY REALLY annoying beep beep beep until we greeted them. However, lifted trucks would never set off the sensor for some reason. Weird.

Answer 8

cameras dont matter, when you wear a drive thru headset and no one is at the speaker, you dont hear anything, kind of as if it were turned off. when a car pulls up, a sensor tells the headset to make a "ding" noise and turn on, and you can then hear outside, and take the order.

Answer 9

They have weight sensors in the ground, which will set off a beep in the drive thru worker's headset. Then the worker presses a button on the headset to greet and take the customer's order. You're not supposed to let the headset beep more than 3 times before serving the drive thru customer, even if it's really busy inside the restaurant...This is because the drive thru customer has no idea that it's busy and is expecting to be served immediately...

Answer 10

when u roll over this wire censor thing

Answer 11

They do have cameras. if you walk in mcdonalds and order, most of the time you can see a little t.v. with cars driving up to the drive thru menus.

Answer 12

At the McDonald's I work at, they have a camera at the Drive-Thru menu that's ALWAYS on so that the person working the main window can see when we have a customer and how many people are in the drive-thru line. This comes in very handy during the breakfast, lunch, and dinner rushes.

I would say that the camera is partly due to the fact that we are one of the few McDonald's locations that doesn't take drive-thru orders using a headset. The cars have to pull up to the first window and give their order in person.

Answer 13

While many restaurants have cameras in the drive through, those cameras are for securiy purposes rather than customer service.  When you stop at the speaker box, the weight and metal of your car activates a pressure switch and an electromagnetic switch.  When one or both are ativated the electrilc circuit is "closed" and the speaker activates.  The people operating the drive through then respond accordingly.  Usually with a phrase like, " Hi, Welcome to (lalala)  may we have your order, please?"

Answer 14

Very few drive thrus have cameras most have a sensor underground that goes off to alert them

Answer 15

ya