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You're assuming to get to a location you need a car, that's still car-centric design. If your primary argument for drive-throughs relies on the fact that you needed a car to reach the location in the first place then you're missing the problem.
The person's point stands if they were on a bicycle. You can't just leave a child in a bike carrier at the bike rack.
Not after that chewing-out by the police department, I can't.
I mean their only point is really if the kids didn't have their "winter clothes on", which would be pretty unlikely on a bike, and I would think in a car, for the most part. I guess it depends where you're going, but that still seems like it would be a good idea, just before you leave the house, generally. I don't think walking into a restaurant, for maybe the minute from the parking space to the door, is going to be a more substantial amount of time, that you would have to have your "winter clothes" on for, compared to if you were entering any other building. I dunno, the tradeoff might be easier in terms of like, without winter clothes, it's easier to get your kids to go potty or change them, but that's kind of a moot point anyways, because most honda odysseys don't have toilets in them, and restaurants do.
Waiting in lines is going to be a problem regardless of whether or not you're in a car. It might be easier in a car, since you have more direct control of your children, but if you're walking, a stroller would be the best analogue for that, and you should probably have that anyways, if you're taking your toddlers for a walk.
It's also not as though walkable restaurants can't necessarily have outdoor ordering windows, hole-in-the-wall style, maybe helping to prevent the flu or what have you. If that's a major concern, though, I think a mask would be a bigger help. Maybe not for kids, they're kinda too gross for that. You could probably leave a kid inside of your little kid bike trailer, or kid's seat on the back or whatever, while you walk up to the hole in the wall and order your food, since they're in view the whole time, and that wouldn't be very inconvenient. I would think the only problem would be if you were going inside. There are some cool options for bike trailer strollers, if you wanted to just detach your kids from your bike, and then just like, go straight inside, but that's kind of a hassle, I haven't seen a good one since they all have to be overbuilt bike trailers first, and strollers second. Someone might make a good amount of schmoney if they could really nail that concept.
In any case, all their points are moot and bad and cars are bad and dumb.
Putting a child in and out of a bike carrier is a ton easier compared to a car seat. It's not really an issue.