• Obinice
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    411 months ago

    Which local coffee shop? By now there’s probably 8 of them, all selling what amounts to something a well built professional coffee vending machine could produce.

    Imagine a coffee vending machine with all the same ingredients that they use, which isn’t much really just different coffees and syrups and milks and stuff, and has the fancy coffee making gear inside to automate the whole process, even the fancy pour designs people like.

    That really doesn’t sound difficult at all compared to funding an entire shop, with rent, staff, electricity for everything, all those consumables, etc etc.

    I’m not saying do away with coffee shops, I’m just saying that instead of having one around every street corner, maybe replace some of them with awesome vending machines, and leave those spaces free for a non-profit community space or something :-D

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      We have them in the UK. They are equivalent quality coffees to the coffee shop they are branded with.

      Not quite as nice as a decent non chain coffee shop and they only use cow milk, but they aren’t bad.

      • Flying Squid
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        -211 months ago

        Of course it’s in the Texas gigafactory. Otherwise Elon might have to pay someone.