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Drive-through meal

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Drive-through meal

Some fast-food restaurants offer patrons a quick drive-through service – they order a meal from their car through an intercom and it is usually delivered in a few minutes. Here, Steve Shervell gets his box of chicken from Marrah Cassey at the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Papatoetoe, Auckland, in 1989.

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Kerryn Pollock, Eating – Meals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38605/drive-through-meal (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 20 November 2012.