Assuming ice production is not the bottleneck, then taking money and making change certainly is... Eliminating the ice transfer from truck to counter, even if it only saves 15 seconds per customer, would be significant. Given these facts, I thought the "algorithm" would obviously be pipelining.... like McDonald's drive thru.
One queue feeds multiple cashiers to take money and give tickets, tokens or other proof of purchase... The cashier lines feed into one or more ice lines that terminate exactly at the back of the truck. You give over your ticket and then YOU pick up the ice and take it away. The ice only ever moves from the back of the truck to the front. Large truck could probably serve 2 pickup lines at the tailgate.
It should not be too difficult to make moving the ice from the back of the truck to the front your bottleneck.
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Assuming ice production is not the bottleneck, then taking money and making change certainly is... Eliminating the ice transfer from truck to counter, even if it only saves 15 seconds per customer, would be significant. Given these facts, I thought the "algorithm" would obviously be pipelining.... like McDonald's drive thru. One queue feeds multiple cashiers to take money and give tickets, tokens or other proof of purchase... The cashier lines feed into one or more ice lines that terminate exactly at the back of the truck. You give over your ticket and then YOU pick up the ice and take it away. The ice only ever moves from the back of the truck to the front. Large truck could probably serve 2 pickup lines at the tailgate. It should not be too difficult to make moving the ice from the back of the truck to the front your bottleneck.