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by sluggg 3265 days ago
I would not. Ordering a large group of people drinks from Starbucks is not in any way the primary use case for the application. For it's primary use cases (paying at the store, rewards redemption/collection, ordering yourself drinks ahead) it works perfectly.

Additionally, if you think about the feature set that would be required to facilitate bulk orders then you will quickly find that it would be quite large feature set and require it's own flow. The app does has new-ish features that allow you to re-order prior orders and save drinks, which would help for these bulk orders, so they are making progress. If you are consistently ordering drinks for a large group of your co-workers then you can save their drink preferences and boom.

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Of course it's not the primary use case and the app guarantees it never will be. I can say from my experience that sending a gopher to get everyone coffee was a twice daily occurrence at our family business in NYC. Shave 5 minutes off that time and we would go to Starbucks instead of the deli.