Re:A $33K robot barista serves 120 cups of coffee an hour
by benj111 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:44PM
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Have you got any links. The research I've done suggests Starbucks are the slowest [1].
I haven't been able to find any figures excluding queuing, but these figures would seem to cast doubt. Unless Dunkin Donuts are doing the same orders in <30s.
Also drive through includes multiple drinks and food items as well crammed into that 40 or so seconds.
When timing the serial steps of making a drink, it takes about a minute from start to finish, but their process is to batch and pipeline drinks so that they generally handle 3-5x drinks per batch in a pipeline (repeatable beverage routine), and this is for a lone barista pumping out hot beverages. The other 4-5 people are usually on cashier duty, and drive through duty.