Until recently fast food was faster and cheaper than sit down joints and it’s easier to eat while you drive. Since it’s only been recent that is gotten slower and more expensive people still reach for it when they want quick calories. Unless fast food becomes faster and cheaper again it will probably decline from gas station food which is faster and getting better in most parts of the US and ordering ahead from local joints.
It’s possible it could be a local firewall that is reaching out to their cloud for lists of bad IP addresses or domains or a local firewall that is configured from a cloud interface. The other case is it could be web application firewall or WAF which where a company intercepts traffic, drops malicious requests and forwards it to your actual web server