I am fucking starving.
I live half a block from the “open 24 hours” Jack in the Box …
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And I get this guy, mopping the floor, telling me, "It’s 4AM, and that’s when we clean the grill blah blah blah …
So they can’t feed me.
Okay, fine, I stomped the half-block back home. Still fucking hungry.
OMFG, THAT IS NOT HOW YOU DO IT!
Goddam, I’ve been working in restaurants, professionally, for 32 years.
Customer walks in … you feed that motherfucker! However you have to do it!
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.’
Steven Wright
People are so selfish.
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You seem to have mistaken “corporate fast food dispensing machine” for “restaurant”.
Sucks to be hungry even if you’re in no danger of starving. I know how weirdly disappointing it is to not get fed once you form the immediate expectation. You feel so, … , violated.
I keep “emergency rations” (nuts, jerky, etc.) around for just such occasions.
“Hold him down!”
“But I just wanted change… aggh… AGLAGGH!!!”
“But this is just a Quickie Lube!”
I’ve seen fast-food places that are open 24 hours a day, but the interior closes at some point. Drive-through is still open.
If the JITB does not have a closing time for the dining area, call the 800 number and complain. They might give you a coupon or something.
They won’t serve you if you don’t have a car, however.
It’ll probably only be good at 4:00 AM
That’s a funny visual right there.
Common mistake. The First Citiwide Change Bank is next door.
This can vary by location. One of the Whataburgers in my area, the one on Seminary Drive, absolutely won’t serve anyone not in an enclosed car at night (in a convertible? you better put the top up, or else no service!). I found this out when I tried to order on my scooter.
The mantra from such establishments tends to be “safety”, which is, of course, bullshit.
So… I rode about three miles to the one on Hemphill, which gladly served me. They will also serve bicyclists. 
I don’t even consider fast-food restaurants that go “drive through only” at night to be “open”, unless they also serve non-car owners. Thankfully, some JITB locations keep the lobby open 24 hours a day. These are the only ones I patronize.
Some drive-through places will serve you if you are riding a horse, however. And some won’t.
ETA: Lots of pictures.
It’s 12 hours later and no sign of the OP.
I wonder if starving became starved? I hope not; he was always good for a controversy or two.
The guy’s a professional cook, is he not? And he’s starving in the middle of the night?
The cobbler’s children go barefoot.
Then what’s the Real Reason, if not safety?
They mean, safety for the customer. They don’t want pedestrians standing in line with a bunch of cars at the drive-up window, because sooner or later some pedestrian customer is going to get crunched.
What I call “acute litigophobia”. It’s the same reason so many other arbitrary rules exist–the fast food company higher-ups have this pants-shitting phobia of lawsuits, even though they are in little to no legal danger from someone ordering a Whopper with cheese while riding a Schwinn. If someone runs them over in the drive through, the legal fault is on the driver, not the restaurant.
Others also add in the irrational fear someone’s gonna try to rob them through the window. As if that can’t happen when someone’s driving a Chevy. :smack:
Went back an hour later
Yeah, but I was craving a burger and fries.