> The inefficiency is the point. Doing it the long, hard and stupid way is the point. Yes. This is what passes for "fine dining" today. Starbucks used to make

> The inefficiency is the point. Doing it the long, hard and stupid way is the point. Yes. This is what passes for "fine dining" today. Starbucks used to make a thing of this. The process of making drinks was deliberately made manual and complicated to give customers the impression they were getting their money's worth for overpriced coffee. That was part of the Starbucks mystique, when they had one.