[0xbadcafebee]

I'm envisioning a bank drive-thru. Multiple lanes, place your order on a screen, chute/conveyor belt delivers your food.

Alternately, the drive-thru version of an Automat. Drive up to a wall of boxes, each of which has a meal. Scan a QR code / punch a code in, the box with your meal pops open. Robots deliver meals in the background continuously. The boxes keep the meals warm, but JIT ordering would also work. This allows scaling operations up and down around peak hours without additional resources.

To increase efficiency, have a separate "ordering" line and a "pick-up" line. People who order on the app just go to the pick-up line.

[wildrhythms]

Taco Bell already has some concept art depicting a contactless lift system to deliver orders to waiting customers -

https://www.fox19.com/2021/08/14/taco-bell-future-new-4-lane...

[jrootabega]

Other than the contactless/app part of it, I saw McDonaldses with this tech decades ago. It hasn't seemed to be a game changer until now. What I see here of promise is maximizing parallel service with the minimum amount of land usage. Since you'll need room for multiple cars (and in America today, that means unreasonably giant SUVs), I'm not sure how much benefit you'd get from robot cooks. Without a dining area, it would probably be a relatively spacious kitchen.