dashboard dining

And what does the future hold for dashboard dining?

A similar line has been developed by the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, which calls it "dashboard dining."

Fast-food professionals must acknowledge the realities of "dashboard dining."

The results were dubbed the Dashboard Dining Index.

"It's dashboard dining for the pedestrian, quite honestly," said Steve Hall, vice president for real estate and development.

Now, with the pace of life approaching warp speed, it's time for something marketers call hyperconvenience food, portable comfort cuisine and dashboard dining.

Dashboard dining is more popular than ever, with busy families and commuters gobbling up snacks and often full meals on their way to wherever they are rushing next.

For fast food, follow the smell of ketchup and the sounds of seagulls to the All American Hamburger Drive In, a Massapequa institution for dashboard dining.

Named after Scott Adams's cartoon character, a put-upon engineer with an upturned red and black striped tie, Dilberitos are, in the words of the manufacturer, Scott Adams Foods of Newton, N.J., "cubicle cuisine," or "dashboard dining."