JACKI LYDEN, host: It takes time and love to bake a cake. Those on deadline and maybe not feeling the love, often turn to a less celebrated culinary institution: fast food. And for those even more hard pressed, the fast food drive-thru. A meal offered through the car window has been an option for residents of Baldwin Park, California since 1948.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: That's the year In-N-Out Burger opened what it claims to be the nation's first-ever drive-thru food joint. Today, the town of 80,000 is served by 17 drive-thru restaurants and the city council has decided that those are quite enough.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: Baldwin Park is banning any new drive-thrus for at least nine months, anyway. City Council members are concerned about transfat and those SUVs snaking from the parking lot into the street.
The city of Baldwin Park, Calif., has declared a moratorium on drive-through eateries. The city has 17 of the restaurants already.