Canada Has More Drive-Throughs Than the UK

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Jul 10, 2026 · 9m

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…