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