carhop
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After class, she would take everyone home before heading to her second job as a carhop at Sonic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Inspired by Mel’s Drive-In, which recently announced that it will be resurrecting its ’50s-era carhop service to attract more customers, the Burbank location is offering its own carhop delivery and free churros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2020
Three years ago, he was a carhop at a Sonic Drive-In in Garland, Tex.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
For much of her life, she subsisted at the margins of society, making ends meet, according to various accounts, as a bartender, a maid, a roller-skating carhop and a house painter.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2017
The young carhop turned slowly, as if puzzled, then said something to the boys in the Firebird and moved reluctantly toward him.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Guests can charge their Teslas while getting ‘epic bacon’ and tuna melts carhopped to their vehicles, and other unique quirks we learned at the opening of Elon Musk’s new Tesla Diner in Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
