May 22, 2013
2012 Drive-Thru Study: Speaker Clarity
As speaker technology continues to improve, the benchmark chains are inching toward perfect speaker clarity scores.
| Clear & Understandable | Not Clear or Understandable | ||||
| Chain | Total Units | Count | Percent | Count | Percent |
| Taco Bell | 307 | 302 | 98.4% | 5 | 1.6% |
| Wendy's | 318 | 309 | 97.2% | 9 | 2.8% |
| McDonald's | 362 | 347 | 95.9% | 12 | 3.3% |
| Burger King | 318 | 300 | 94.3% | 17 | 5.3% |
| Bojangles' | 242 | 228 | 94.2% | 13 | 5.4% |
| Chick-fil-A | 303 | 280 | 92.4% | 7 | 2.3% |
| Krystal | 203 | 175 | 86.2% | 28 | 13.8% |
| Summary | 2,053 | 1,941 | 94.50% | 91 | 4.40% |
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