In the interests of full disclosure, I’ll have to admit that I have never eaten at a Jack-in-the-Box restaurant. I’ve never had their food, and really don’t know much about what makes them popular. Plus, the last one in the Chicago and Chicagoland area closed back in 1980, so it would have about 45 years since my last visit, assuming that I had gone at all.
What I have learned is that Jack-in-the-Box (the first store opened in San Diego in 1951) pioneered a concept that every single fast food drive-thru (and even many fast casual restaurants) uses every single day in every single city in every state:
The drive-thru two-way intercom…