Pic number one is definitely more comfortable. Because you don't have to be around so many people. You have your own private environment. Listen to an audiobook, zone out, drink some coffee, sounds perfect.
I know you're getting downvoted, but I agree. I have lost most of my tolerance for people in businesses at this point. Too many rude, inconsiderate jerks treating the staff poorly and acting like they own the place. I'm not saying sitting in your car waiting for it is good either, but compared to dealing with horrible people, I'll take it.
Now, if you're lucky, you'll find a coffee shop with decent clientele. If you're lucky.
Agreed. If pic two was a sleepy coffee shop with maybe one or two tables occupied. And you could get some personal space and read a book quietly. It would be superior. If you live in a transit oriented community, and everything's walkable, you got a coffee shop right next to your house that you can go visit in the morning. Beautiful.
But that wasn't the question, it was of the two which was more preferable.
Maybe this whole car/big business environment contribute to the this.
Where I live I know the name or faces of most people who attend my local café, which is run by an old dude and his wife, I think this leads to a more friendlier place then let say, a big chain store with new staff every couple weeks who can't care less about the place and also customers who sees the place as only somewhere where you go to buy stuff and leave.
Some cars have by far the most comfortable seats I've ever sat in. Nissan in particular has some amazing seats. Far better than anything Herman Miller has ever put out. There's a reason some dedicated people out there take seats out of cars and mount them on the rolly things.
That said I'm not going to idle my car for more than 5 minutes for just about anything. The people who wait 30 minutes in a drive thru line are insane.
I'm a fierce opponent of cars in inner cities and I want a revolution in individual transportation that makes us mostly move away from cars (and make cars much smaller for those who are reliant on it).
However I love driving although I hope I'll never need a car ever again for climates sake. I'd definitely rather sit in my own isolated space.
It's 43°C out here in Texas, so yes, but I would rather climate refugee my way into a nice place like the bottom picture because with the way things are going, soon 50°C is going to be the new norm out here (especially if we keep building photo one infrastructure) and 43° is already too hot. We also have lines like this for fried chicken. SNL even did a parody auto dealer commercial where the dealership is blocked off by the traffic in line for chicken.
I hope it's higher than that. I don't want to hike 3 miles to sit on a crowded sidewalk with randos under someone's house to wait 20 minutes for 2 oz of espresso probably in a cloud of cigarette smoke.
I like a cafe, but it's going to be way out of the way and no one waiting but me.