The fast-food drive-thru lane is the postmodern Vomitorium, whereas the drive-in is more of a drive-up, not so different in terms of this history. People hung out at the fast food place as much as they just picked up food to go.
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Trump’s fetish for McDonald’s food is less a matter of convenience than a paranoia about getting sick from being poisoned by less-than-trustworthy food preparations. Also, Trump’s taste is barely in his mouth, considering his preferences for overdone steaks and meatloaf smothered in catsup.
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Despite being no fan of exotic eats, Trump does have a few food habits that most would find a bit odd. We're pleased to present, for your consideration (as narrator Rod Serling once introduced an episode of the Twilight Zone), the following list of interesting Trump meals.
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Even when Trump travels abroad, he manages not to delve too deeply into local cuisine, instead preferring to eat his typical meal of steak. Washingtonian lists 10 different countries around the world where Trump has been served some variant on steak: the UK, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, France, Singapore, Argentina, and Vietnam.
Only a few of these dishes ventured into anything slightly exotic — in Israel he ate beef tenderloin with foie gras and red curry (Israeli celebrity chef Moshe Segev said Trump's meat was cooked "like a rock!"), in the Philippines he had tenderloin marinated in soy-calamansi, in France he had filet of beef with foie brioche, soufflé potato, and truffle sauce, and in Argentina, he ate grilled sirloin with red onions, goat ricotta, and dates. Ok, so it's not exactly balut — heck, it's not even sushi. But we're talking about Trump here, and taking a "polite bite" of goat cheese ricotta is about as adventurous as he is willing to get.
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Drive-thrus are more like vomitaria.
The second-window request may make sense in some instances, like if you have a larger, more time-consuming order or if the line of cars starts winding into the street. However, according to some folks, the main reason fast food employees ask you to pull up at the drive-thru lately is that it improves their metrics. With the corporate entities of chain restaurants paying attention to efficiency data, it's on the often short-staffed fast food outposts to pump out impressive numbers. Many drive-thrus now feature sensors that time how fast employees are able to get cars moving — ostensibly, with their orders in hand, though that may not always be the case.
A Redditor who claimed to have experience in the fast food industry weighed in on the subject. "I ran a KFC for a number of years and I can tell you at that time Speed of Service was a metric that our particular franchisee gave bonuses for. The timer started when someone got to the box and ended when they left the window, so it wasn't unheard of to have customers pull forward just to simulate a faster experience," they explained.
As other former and current employees at fast food eateries have corroborated that claim on multiple platforms, including like TikTok (where one worker was seen hitting the drive-thru platform with a piece of wood). Drive-thru metrics are used to judge how well staff at these locations are performing, which puts pressure on them to keep you moving, even if your food isn't ready yet.
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A vomitorium is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre or a stadium through which large crowds can exit rapidly at the end of an event. They can also be pathways for actors to enter and leave stage.
The Latin word vomitorium, plural vomitoria, derives from the verb vomō, vomere, "to spew forth". In ancient Roman architecture, vomitoria were designed to provide rapid egress for large crowds at amphitheatres and stadia, as they do in modern sports stadia and large theatres.
The Circle in the Square Theatre, designed to reflect the theatres of ancient Greece and Rome, is the only Broadway theatre that has a vomitorium, which is still used in many of its productions as an entrance and exit for the actors.
Note that the biggest stadiums in the world are in countries with authoritarian leaders, even if the US is now catching up.
- Biggest stadium in the world: Rungrado 1st of May Stadium (Pyongyang), 150,000 official capacity (Olympics.com).
- Largest active, routinely used venue: Narendra Modi Stadium (Ahmedabad), 132,000 seats (ICC).
- Largest in the United States: Michigan Stadium (Ann Arbor), 107,601 seats (Michigan Athletics).
- Eight of the ten entries are U.S. college football venues clustered between 100,077 and 107,601 seats, a scale validated across official athletics sources and national roundups (ESPN).
- For comparison, Europe’s largest by permanent seats is Wembley Stadium at 90,000 (Wembley Stadium).
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Research finds that delivery apps like DoorDash are intensifying competition and pressuring profit margins, forcing restaurants to close.
Does this, perhaps, explain at least partly why prices at sit-down and fast-food restaurants have risen so high since the demand for meal delivery services exploded some five COVID years ago?
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Performance and effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, interactivity, and perceived risk are crucial.
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Perceived value significantly influences usage intention, which triggers satisfaction, trust, and loyalty.
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The findings in the OFD literature can vary depending on various contextual and methodological moderators.
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This study proposes a meta-analytic framework with the underpinnings of unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, value-based adoption model, and brand relationship quality theory to summarise online food delivery (OFD) literature. Meta-analytic bivariate analysis was used to test the relationships in the proposed model. Further, by performing moderation analysis, this meta-analysis resolves inconsistencies in the findings reported in the domain’s literature. Performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions, and perceived risk determine perceived value, while perceived value has a significant positive impact on usage behaviour which in turn triggers satisfaction, trust, and loyalty. Moderation analysis indicates that these effects can vary in the OFD literature depending on various contextual and methodological moderators.
