A place near me brings an entire round loaf good for prob 4-5 people and its sliced most of the way down and filled with garlic and mozzarella and baked. It's by far the greatest free bread on a table I've ever had. Me and the wife devour it every time.
I'm telling ya, a lot of bakeries could easily rebrand as some kind of bread-exclusive fast food place. Like, just go straight down the middle of the bread spectrum, with baguettes, brioche, and some kind of butter-it-up-and-eat-it loaf situation, like OP is describing.
I can easily imagine an endless-ass line of cars, just lined up at the drive-thru, to get baguettes.
Little Italian restaurant I eat lunch at gives you a plate of bread and a shallow dish with oil for dipping. The bread has carraway seeds so it's vaguely like rye bread, oil has olives plus salt and other spices. I hate rye bread and I hate olives but I can eat their stuff all day