You’re out running errands and it’s time for lunch. It isn’t practical to go home because you have more appointments after lunch.
You get fast food.
Do you usually go inside to eat at a table or eat in the car?.
I used to go inside to eat. I didn’t like eating in my car and felt like I enjoyed my meal better at a table.
But, lately the plastic chairs & tables in the typical McDonald’s or Wendys seems too bleak. It’s rare to find a fast food place with a welcoming dining room.
So, now I usually eat in my car.
If I’m on my lunch break from work, I’ll eat in my car back at the parking garage (or maybe at my desk). This is solely due to not wanting to come back and not find a space. Before working here, I would always eat in the restaurant.
I used to go inside to eat, but it seems like my local place has become a magnet for the homeless. Some of them are mentally ill, and I feel uneasy being inside. So I eat in my car now.
Like to keep my car clean, so inside the restaurant for me.
I strongly dislike eating in my vehicle. I only do it if I am absolutely pressed for time and don’t have any other choice.
I’ll either eat in the restaurant or bring it back to work. The only time I eat in a vehicle is when it’s moving.
I hit “other” because I have the twin benefits of living in Florida and having a ridiculously high tolerance for heat. Therefore my answer is actually to eat outside. Most places here have some sort of outside option and I will always choose that. If that’s not available or if it’s raining, I eat in the restaurant.
I’t very rare for me to eat fast food, but I if I do it’ll be in mt car. I’ve got better music there.
I’ll eat in the car if we’re on the road and on a schedule. Otherwise, I’ll go inside. Tho I usually opt for other than fast food - burgers and fries just don’t do it for me any more.
I’m about fifty-fifty on both options. It depends on how much of a hurry I’m in, how nice the restaurant is, and what’s on the radio.
I don’t eat in my car, but will in my 1995 pickup. So it depends on what I’m in, but I usually go in even in the truck.
There ought to be another “main” option to cover my habits:
– Take home
Way over 80% of my “dining” is from take-out and I always just bring it home. There are several places I’ll go for food, but I rarely eat there. They’re close enough to home that I’ll just make a run to get the food and then bring it home. I’m not even sure what kinds of “eat inside” my joints offer!
But I also rarely eat in the car so “eat inside” would have to be the option I would have checked.
Usually in my car. I can then listen to news/talk radio over lunch. If I go inside all I have is my phone to look through.
Same here. I also don’t want the car to smell like french fries.
I enjoy taking my food to a local park on a nice day. Roll down the windows and enjoy the sun with my meal.
I usually wouldn’t eat at the park tables because there’s always some sketchy folks hanging around.
The best lunch option is a nice sit down restaurant that serves quickly. There’s a couple local Mexican restaurants that I can enjoy and still get back to work within my hour break.
I’ll eat in my car if I’m in a hurry and driving. If I have time, I will go inside. I generally do not eat inside a stationary car. But the vast majority of the time, I’m not in that much of a hurry.
The OP specifically said it’s not practical to go home.
I go inside to eat; I never eat in my car unless I have no other cjoice.
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This is a great question!
I invariably eat inside the restaurant. If I’m stopped, I would never eat inside my car. It just seems like a great way to get food and crumbs all over the car, my shirt, and my lap. I also like to wash my hands after eating fast food, which means I have to go inside anyway.
In fact, I’ve always kind of wondered about the people who sit in a Taco Bell parking lot in the middle of the summer, eating in their car with the windows up, the car running, and A/C on high. It just seems a bit wasteful to me (from an energy point of view), especially when there is a perfectly good restaurant with air conditioning and actual chairs and tables just a few feet away.
I never eat in my car unless I’m on the highway and I have no choice. Even then I carefully consider what I’m getting, to make sure it can easily be eaten with one hand (i.e. no tacos or Big Macs).