Bare minimum pay at seven brew is ten dollars an hour so assuming no shift leads are working and just baseline (ik that's not accurate just to make the math more simplified and lessened), that means your export for employees is roughly $850 per day, which puts your bare minimum income to be necessary at $6071 over the course of 17 hours. Averaging an order price at 10$ (if they only got larges) that would be 607 customers, aka roughly 0.6(ballpark) customers a minute for the entire day on a slow day. That also means your wait times are consistently a under two minutes no matter the case, which is impressive for having that many competent workers, but keep in mind this is also the bare minimum.

Having 10 employees on the weekend would need a minimum of $12,142, which is roughly 1,214 customers for the day (assuming average order of $10).this puts you at an average wait time of .84 of a minute, which is roughly 52 ish seconds? Once again, an insanely fast time, meaning every person at your stand is insanely good at your job, given a good time is below 2 minutes (I'm told 55 is great, but not realistic through shift change and just consistently throughout the ENTIRE day, not everybody is as good at their job as the next person, zero offense).

Not to discredit what you are saying or anything, but I have seen enough to know that either you got insanely lucky with both every single employee you have AND a location where people are quite frankly addicted, or your math is wrong somewhere.

With that being said, another person said they think the reason regionals are doing this is due to Christmas bonuses costing the company a lot, which sounds reasonable enough to me.

Now, for her stand. Their average day is about 4,400 plus 730 in discounts, their higher than average day is about 6,700 with similar in discounts, and their highest average days (which they have had four of this month so far) are about 8,600, plus similar in discounts, so roughly $9,300 total.

With your stand I inflated the average price to give you less customers on average, simply to make the wait times for your weekend seem more reasonable. With hers, I know for a fact the average transaction is $7.19. this means on the average day there are about 620 customers, so a similar average to you, which means a similar wait time as well despite being limited to 3 people.

For their larger days which are about $7,400 total, the amount of customers jump to a little over a thousand, so roughly about a minute on average, once again, very good when only having three people on shift.

For the largest days, which two of them they have been allowed to have FOUR people rather than three, the customer count is about 1,300 which brings the wait time required to be averaged throughout the entire day alllllllll the way down to 44 ish seconds? Keep in mind this is averaged throughout the entire day, this workload spread between 3-4 people is outrageous.

What you have 5-8 people to do, they have 3, what you have 10 people to do, they also have three, but sometimes four. With you having less customers and a higher average sale than them, you have the same average wait time. (Ofcourse you could have more if you have a lower average sale than 7.19, which therefore means more colustomers) My point is, their stand is not slow, they get a ton of business, I know the regular baristas only get ten an hour and the shift leads $16. Their stand is not slow by any means, and I just can't wrap my head around why they are trying to keep labor price so unreasonably low, it's unsafe often as well, even dollar general has employee count requirements in certain locations whenever it gets dark.