New Popeye’s Chicken reflects drive-through trend

With a seating area around one-half the size of its comparable store in Starke, Keystone Heights’s Popeye’s Chicken is following a national trend emphasizing the drive-through over dining in. Industry experts said the COVID-19 Pandemic changed customer behavior at fast-food outlets, and that change appears to have stuck. A report from Techonmic said drive-through traffic…