Question 1

Hi. I have some questions: -What are your revenue goals for the first 5 years? -Can the drive through be left unattended or does it require someone in the facilities at all times? -Do you have your own brand of coffee and tea?

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We're looking to grow each location to $500k+/yr in revenue with ~60% profit margin.  We're planning to launch 5-10 corporate locations within the first 5 years and also looking at 20+ franchise locations within that timeline.Each location requires ~30 minutes of labor per day for restocking and cleaning but otherwise runs completely unattended.  We have a lot of experience building industrial automation that needs to run 24/7/365 without issues.  Customer s...

Question 2

HI, How does it work? Do you need a building with a drive-thru to setup the machine? How customers can make payments? Is it possible to setup the machine inside a building?

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I can't share proprietary details, but basically imagine a Starbucks drive-thru with robots inside making all of the drinks.  We utilize GPS and other geolocating strategies to prepare customer's drinks BEFORE they arrive at the pick-up window for drink delivery in 30 seconds or less per car.All customer orders, drink customizations, and payments are processed through our mobile ordering app.  Later on, we may add an iPad style kiosk out in the parking lot to allow people to or...

Question 3

Just want to confirm - I love the idea a ton, but obviously if you're starting off targeting only the Milwaukee area, 10% off coffee for one year won't help me very much, since I'm several thousand miles away... I assume there's no way to delay what year I'd get the investor d...

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If you do invest, we can probably work out a deal for your 10% discount to start once you're actually able to utilize our drive-thrus ; )California is high on our expansion plan list, but we're not likely to make it out there for a few years yet.  We need to launch/troubleshoot/refine our automation package and then focus on scaling manufacturing and franchising, which would likely coincide with California location launches.Yes, vandalism is on our radar.  We'll have plenty of camer...

Question 4

I really like the business model here, but I have to ask is there any IP or patents with this system? If this model were to work, what would stop the big brand coffee chains who already have large dedicated customer bases from simply deploying capital to make automated kiosks?

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We plan to file 2-3 Provisionary Patents before we publicly launch the system that will protect certain Process related IP.  We've dug into the patents of our competitors and found that there's a big lack of Product related patents, which confirms our early hypothesis: it's better NOT to file product patents that show exploded views of everything we've developed internally (basically showing off our secret sauce.While yes, the To-Go Coffee space is huge, we see this space divid...

Question 5

Really interesting stuff here! This is the way the future's going and love that your tackling this opportunity, especially in the time of COVID-19. A few quick questions: 1) Each "automation cell" store location is a essentially a shipping container crate? How does this affect...

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A few quick answers:1) Legally, our business is defined as a Vending Machine, but the drive-thru aspect complicates that a little bit as that requires local government approval for zoning and traffic safety.  We'll have cameras inside and outside of the unit monitoring everything, and spare parts on the shelf if vandalism does occur.2) Our current layout can be scaled up easily to accommodate 1000+ cups per day, the tricky part becomes system throughput (how many coffees p...

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