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>Already, drive-through times at McDonald’s slowed to 239 seconds last year -- more than 30 seconds slower than in 2016, according to QSR magazine. It’s also pokier than Burger King, Wendy’s and Taco Bell.

Can someone describe what “pokier” means in this sentence?

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Slow.

Look up the work poky - this is a derivative of that.

Not slow poke?

That seems to be a definition specific to North America (so it would apply here). The definition I get for poky is:

"(of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped"

Well I would have added lower quality.

As an adjective, it means slow.

As a noun, it generally refers to a detention room, or jail. (For example, on "NYPD Blue", the "poky room" was where they detained suspects for interviews, and within it was a lockable cage.)

Slower.

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