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[perchie.girl]

Long drive through lines are not new here. Especially at In and OUt burgers. they share a parking lot with Koles which closed now except for online purchases and a drive through pick up.

Now IN and out has taken the whole parking lot and sectioned it off so it can accommodate more than fifty cars. Yep been through it. They are known for efficiency and extremely fresh ingredients.

the line only took twenty minutes to go through. I cant tell you how they do it but they have three ordering tendants that walk the line taking orders. Some are ordering for a whole family. So one take the long order while the other two continue on with a note pad and transfer the order to the main guy.

Deb

 

[orrpeople]

Long drive through lines are not new here. Especially at In and OUt burgers. they share a parking lot with Koles which closed now except for online purchases and a drive through pick up.

Now IN and out has taken the whole parking lot and sectioned it off so it can accommodate more than fifty cars. Yep been through it. They are known for efficiency and extremely fresh ingredients.

the line only took twenty minutes to go through. I cant tell you how they do it but they have three ordering tendants that walk the line taking orders. Some are ordering for a whole family. So one take the long order while the other two continue on with a note pad and transfer the order to the main guy.

Deb

It seems like our In-n-Outs are the busiest drive-throughs in town as well. Never fewer than 10 cars, and like you said, sometimes the cars go all the way through the businesses next door to them!

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Pond - wearing a dent in my lily pad.

 

[chickisoup]

Morning Sir Sour
Another day, another snow, another lockdown. Sigh.
Never thought I would find myself trapped in "Groundhog Day".
Well, the airlines are getting a 5 B bailout, surprise!!!
Wonder if any of you will get your ticket refunds now?
CRAP! The networks did a big story on the POTENTIAL meat shortage "We're all gonna starve!!!!!!" before we could get to town. At least they missed that the big east coast producer for broilers killed 5 million broilers before they were ready because there weren't going to be enough workers left to process them. They did mention the two big pork/beef processors and Tyson in trouble. Heading in this morning to restock our chicken freezer before the fools use all their gov. money to clear out the grocery stores. We're not worried about the pork or beef. Only pork we eat is occasional bacon and our garage freezer is full of venison and two turkeys left from the grab I did last fall when the price dropped to stupid low. We had already done our semi-annual bacon stock up from Nueske's a while back. After the holidays their plant always has a big sale on the less than perfect sliced bacon that didn't pass the perfection inspection for their Christmas packages.

 

[bobbi-j]

Good Morning, Pond!
A bright, sunny day here! I wish it was as warm as it is pretty!

Tyson isn’t the only one in trouble. The Smithfield Plant in Sioux Falls is closed “indefinitely” because 300 of Sioux Falls’ 700 cases of Covid are employees there. They had offered a $500 bonus to anyone who didn’t miss work in April.

 

[Alaskan]

Good Morning, Pond!
A bright, sunny day here! I wish it was as warm as it is pretty!

Tyson isn’t the only one in trouble. The Smithfield Plant in Sioux Falls is closed “indefinitely” because 300 of Sioux Falls’ 700 cases of Covid are employees there. They had offered a $500 bonus to anyone who didn’t miss work in April.

 

[Alaskan]

After the holidays their plant always has a big sale on the less than perfect sliced bacon that didn't pass the perfection inspection for their Christmas packages.

Baaaacon!!!!

 

[Alaskan]

Well... we ordered crazy amount of meat... and flour... it is supposed to show up on Friday, we shall see if it still shows up.

Alaska is opening back up... as of next week...

It will be interesting.

 

[kwhites634]

Well... we ordered crazy amount of meat... and flour... it is supposed to show up on Friday, we shall see if it still shows up.

Alaska is opening back up... as of next week...

It will be interesting.

More like a mistake, IMO

 

[Alaskan]

More like a mistake, IMO

I dunno....

We got a bunch more supplies in if people get sick, so we are ready for that potential.

We have some regions/areas that are still at zero, others have been at zero increase for a week.

Only real problem areas have been in some of the bigger cities. (So, 3 places)

We had people track down everywhere that the sick people went.

You have to remember that we are a small population state, only 280-ish cases so far.

And only a few were hospitalized.

AND, I know at least 2 of the deaths hadn't been in Alaska for months... they were someplace else, but are listed "alaska" because that was on their driver's license.

Also, a huge portion of our state is unemployed all winter, work all summer.

People are getting desperate to make money. Huge portion of our state is also poor... we have to start moving. People have to get to subsistence areas to get food... other people have to start making money...

Anyway, it is a slow opening up... dentists aren't supposed to open yet (too high risk) ... and I know my local dentist and staff are crying over that... they need some money.