drive-in restaurant
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His second wife, Lee Roberts, was more amenable to his racing, supporting him with money from her job as a carhop at a drive-in restaurant.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023
The 24-hour drive-in restaurant also runs one of the better complimentary salsa bars around, with a handful of fiery hot options.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2023
Even after he remarried, he remained close to his first wife’s parents, and in 1991 he joined them to buy a drive-in restaurant in Buckley, Wash., a logging town southeast of Seattle.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2021
In the late 1950s my mom and her sister ran a drive-in restaurant in a small town on the west side of Michigan.
From Salon • May 23, 2019
“People with cars are so lazy they don’t want to get out of them to eat!” said Jesse G. Kirby, the founder of an early drive-in restaurant chain.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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