The Naperville City Council may expand the city’s food and beverage tax to include drive-thru-only businesses and food trucks.

“The reason we’re here tonight is to talk about the possibility of including those concepts that we never even thought about 20 years ago, and those are drive-thru-only type concepts that are now becoming more and more prevalent,” Mayor Scott Wehrli said at the Tuesday council meeting.

A number of drive-thru-focused restaurants have set up shop in Naperville in recent years. A drive-thru/walk-up Chick-fil-A opened in Naperville earlier this year, and drive-thru-only coffee chains 7 Brew and Scooter’s Coffee opened last year, the former of which smashed business records and generated long lines of traffic .

National drive-thru coffee chain Dutch Bros is s

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