Food Frequency

The first restaurant to allow drivers to take meals “to go” was an In-N-Out Burger that opened in 1948, Jack in the Box followed in 1951. McDonald’s first drive-through was in 1975. In 2022, at U.S. fast-food restaurants 85% of orders were taken to go, down from 90% in 2020, but up from 76% pre-Covid. Among full-service restaurants, 33% of orders are now to go, almost double the pre-Covid rate.