I just have a self-serve kiosk at mine. Scan the Costco card, punch in my order, wait for number to be called. Really fast even when it’s packed.

Costco Japan isn’t much better.

Once I got a chicken bucket and was told to wait for them to finish cooking. When they did put a bucket out the lady said it was for someone else before me. No one came for it. She put a second bucket out and it was also for someone else and no one came for that one either.

Finally, my bucket was ready and I took it, leaving two rapidly-cooling buckets of chicken sitting there with no owner.

Weird. I was there a few weeks ago and ordered/got my food within like 6 minutes tops. And it was a very busy day there. Could barely even get a parking spot.

I'm guessing, it's a parody. There's a couple which has been posting pictures like this to the internet, but it's normally some amazing scenery from where they've travelled to. It's always the woman in the center of the shot, dragging her partner along who's taking the photo. I'm guessing, it's trying to say that a hotdog stand is an amazing place to travel to...

If you learn how to make them yourself, you'll never be without.

The hard part is finding a bakery that can make you a decent bun, and convincing them to make them in small enough quantities that you can buy them. You could of course learn to make your own buns, But that's a whole other level.

You can buy uncured frozen hot dogs online and get them shipped If you want something special. But honestly, for the most part, Nathan's, Sabrent or Hebrew National should come out pretty nice.

Most of the condiments are easy enough to find in Walmart. You need to steam the dogs, bamboo steamer baskets are pretty cheap.

“Hey, can you give us TWO churros? It’s our anniversary.”