Canada Has More Drive-Throughs Than the UK

Canada Has More Drive-Throughs Than the UK

Drive-thru culture is getting a real-time reaction this summer, as Europeans in town for the World Cup post themselves discovering it for the first time. One video shows a woman getting out of her car at the window, certain a drive-thru could not possibly be that simple.

The numbers back up the culture shock. The UK runs under three thousand drive-throughs total. Canada, with a fraction of the population, has almost thirty thousand. McDonald's alone still pulls seventy percent of its US revenue through the window, even in the age of Uber Eats.

Then there is Buc-ee's: two hundred gas pumps, three pound sandwiches, and a bell that rings every time fresh brisket comes out of the oven. Ryan tracks down the receipts on why America's drive-thru scale has genuinely stunned the rest of the world.

Topics: drive-thru culture, Buc-ee's, European tourists, fast food statistics, McDonald's revenue

Originally aired on 2026-07-09

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