Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Part 13

Customer: “I need twelve [different types of hot drinks].”

We confirm the order, they pay, and we start making them. They come out like a conveyer and we place them on the counter, with the customer taking them one by one.

After he takes the seventh drink or so, he comes back with some of the earlier ones.

Customer: “These ones aren’t hot! Remake them!”

Me: “They’re coming out hot, sir, but they will cool down a little.”

Customer: “I need them all hot. Remake them!”

We try to speed up a little but it’s inevitable that just two of us making twelve different drinks can get them all out at the same time. The customer comes over after we’ve handed another seven drinks over.

Customer: “Not fast enough! These are cold now, too! Remake them!”

Me: “Sir, no matter how fast we go, the earlier drinks will not be as hot as the newer drinks.”

Customer: “I need them all hot!”

Me: “Sir, this is just how the universe works. We cannot stop this process.”

Customer: “Your other store downtown does it for me!”

Me: “Then they should call the Nobel society, sir, because they just broke science!”

It took the manager explaining that we couldn’t stop this process before the customer left with their drinks of varying (but all still quite hot) temperatures. In the end we made over twenty drinks for him!

Related:
Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Part 12
Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Part 11
Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Part 10
Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Part 9
Thermodynamics, You Take It From Here, Part 8