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So, currently my cofounder and I will be delivering them, but probably will ramp up hiring with increased volume. If we serve 300 people day one, $150 dollars i

So, currently my cofounder and I will be delivering them, but probably will ramp up hiring with increased volume. If we serve 300 people day one, $150 dollars is enough for the gas money and a little profit. But we're still working on pricing, so if you have any ideas, we'd love to hear them.

TomGullen 14y ago
300 people on day one. They are all going to want their coffee at about 8am. Also they will probably be fairly randomly geographically dispersed. If this is the case, then delivering the coffee hot is going to present another challenge, it might not be a case of 'pick up 300 coffees and deliver them to 300 addresses'. I fail to see how this is at all possible.
philip1209 14y ago
If you serve 300 people on day one, people will get angry that their drinks are becoming room temperature. You'll have to battle the Starbucks line, and in doing so end up doing larger batches of purchases, and finally the drinks will be cooling/warming too much before they are delivered.
Alex3917 14y ago
Unless you're Santa Claus, delivering 300 orders of coffee in a day is flat out impossible. - First, everyone is going to want them within a two or three hour time period. - Second, you're going to have to go to Starbucks after every order or every other order or else the coffee will get cold by the time it's delivered. I think you can reasonably deliver 4 per hour, maybe 8 if you get really good at clustering them together. So I think more than 25 per person per day is going to be unreasonable, and realistically probably more like 15.
- far-I 14y ago
  especially if you're using a car for delivery! Imagine at rush hour in the morning. Why do you think they use bikes for couriers? You should get a couple of bike punks and pay them cash. These guys will be productive!
philip1209 14y ago
If you serve 300 people on day one, people will get angry that their drinks are becoming room temperature. You'll have to battle the Starbucks line, and in doing so end up doing larger batches of purchases, and finally the drinks will be cooling/warming too much before they are delivered.
gee_totes 14y ago
It might be a good idea to put something on the website saying where the service will be first. That would certainly encourage me to hand over my e-mail address.

TomGullen 14y ago

300 people on day one. They are all going to want their coffee at about 8am. Also they will probably be fairly randomly geographically dispersed. If this is the case, then delivering the coffee hot is going to present another challenge, it might not be a case of 'pick up 300 coffees and deliver them to 300 addresses'. I fail to see how this is at all possible.

philip1209 14y ago

If you serve 300 people on day one, people will get angry that their drinks are becoming room temperature. You'll have to battle the Starbucks line, and in doing so end up doing larger batches of purchases, and finally the drinks will be cooling/warming too much before they are delivered.

Alex3917 14y ago

Unless you're Santa Claus, delivering 300 orders of coffee in a day is flat out impossible. - First, everyone is going to want them within a two or three hour time period. - Second, you're going to have to go to Starbucks after every order or every other order or else the coffee will get cold by the time it's delivered. I think you can reasonably deliver 4 per hour, maybe 8 if you get really good at clustering them together. So I think more than 25 per person per day is going to be unreasonable, and realistically probably more like 15.

far-I 14y ago
especially if you're using a car for delivery! Imagine at rush hour in the morning. Why do you think they use bikes for couriers? You should get a couple of bike punks and pay them cash. These guys will be productive!

philip1209 14y ago

gee_totes 14y ago

It might be a good idea to put something on the website saying where the service will be first. That would certainly encourage me to hand over my e-mail address.