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Who invented the drive-through window?

Inventor of the Drive-Thru

Ray Croc the founder of McDonalds.

While Ray Croc implemented and authorize the installation, it was one of his employees who had the idea and was persistent enough to push the issue up the chain of command. (according to Paul Harvey's "the rest of the story"


Respecfully, the above info is not correct. The first drive-thru windows were in existence a few years before Ray opened his first McDonald's.


It was Harry and Esther Snyder, of the In-N-Out Burger chain that built the first drive-through restaurant in 1948. Harry and Esther, the chain's founders, built their first restaurant in Baldwin Park, California, with a two-way speaker to enable patrons to order directly from their cars without the intermediation of a carhop. Within 5 years, they had added a drive-up window to one of their locations, though not all locations would receive a window.

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