Years ago, fast food places talked about a hamburger machine that could pump out hundreds of burgers an hour, as a reaction to the insane minimum wage increases. I’m sure an entrepreneur and venture capitalist could create the same for the coffee business.
“IM sure theres a way to make coffee without.. Keurig has no comment. Coffeemate has no comment.. and soy Cows take the holiday off.
I thought they already did so.
Adding water and ground coffee to a $10 Wally World is easy enough. Pouring the machine made coffee into a cup and adding a sprinkle of cinnamon and cream isn’t that tasking and you saved enough to pay the rent.
I worked in an Arctic Circle burger joint in the 1960’s. I was the cook, two girls collected the orders, and distributed them.
You ordered the food, next, ordered food, next, until everyones order was in. I cooked them, and brought them into the warming bin. The girls made the drinks out front.
We were close to the College campus, and the High school campus. It was busy on football and basketball nights, very busy. Nobody wrote down the orders, it was all on memory. We could all add, subtract, multiply and divide in our heads. We could count change without a computer. Aside from preparation, and cleanup, 3 people could handle the rush.
Sometimes, we had 5 people working, and it was usually the owner and his wife pitching in on those festival days, like 4th of July, or a parade.
We made $1.60 to $2.00 per hour depending.
If I were a coffee shop owner, like Starbucks I would fire all the workers, and hire HS and young College students, and if they can’t handle volume of customers, and figure out cost and how to make what is wanted, I would fire them. No union, NO TIPS, suck it up buttercup. Who in the ..F... decided it was protocol to tip a person making you a drink?
You tip those who serve alcohol drinks, because the servers there must be 21, and need the money, like a good waitress in a diner.
Who are professional coffee serves? Losers.