It really depends on the order distribution of distances for a specific store but on average its ~7 minutes from pickup to dropoff. Regarding difference in temperature, the coffee travels in insulated bags and so we aren't seeing significant differences. We are monitoring customer satisfaction scores on these orders and will tweak as we go along as we find opportunities.

I don't think one more week would have made that much of a difference (rather than, say, a couple of months). Seems like they came up with a solid solution anyway.

This is complete speculation, but I'm guessing that the Starbucks deal happened late (as does any deal between higher executives that don't have to implement it), and the dealmakers wanted it running as soon as possible.

We were optimizing for speed so didn't really shoot for optimizing costs as much. It cost us about $6.61 in material costs and $5.25 in laser cutting time.

More complicated to manufacture.