With McDonald's set to reopen fifteen of its stores for delivery on Wednesday, a government minister has now confirmed that could be "well possible" for the fast food chain to open its drive thrus.
Environment secretary George Eustice has said that the fast food chain's drive thrus were 'made' for social distancing. Asked if fast food outlets could have stayed open during the crisis, Mr Eustice said: "While clearly restaurants and pubs had to close, we were quite keen to keep that capacity to be able to do takeaway food for people." He suggested reduced footfall in town centres, staff anxiety and a sense of what was "socially acceptable" given the stay-at-home message had led to places such as McDonald’s and KFC closing.