PennDrinks.com Update
Since we returned to Penn last Wednesday, orders have been flying in. We went from 12,000 to 13,000 drinks sold in the past 3 and 1/2 days (almost a record*).
That made me think, “I wonder what PennDrinks.com would look like if it were a physical store?” I did some math to get an idea of how busy we’d be these past few days.
Let’s suppose our imaginary store was open 8 hours per day. 3.5 days x 8 hrs/day = 28 total hours. 1,000 drinks / 28 hours = 36 drinks per hour — in other words, 1 drink sold every ~2 minutes.
I think selling a drink every 2 minutes for an entire workday would feel pretty crazy. While Delivery Man Dan might be feeling some of this craziness, I think our managed delivery system is a lot more relaxed than a store would be.
*record time: from 1K to 2K drinks sold in 2.25 days, after the Daily Pennsylvanian article