But we just wrapped an 8-week test of a two-syrup yuzu lemonade that lifted attach rate 7% but added 6 seconds at the drive-thru — how are you trimming syrup SKUs or pre-batching without dulling the novelty? If you’ve got a prep or par sheet that keeps the 2-5pm window moving, I’ll gladly swap ours.
We pre-blend the two syrups into a single ‘rush bottle’ for the 2–5 window (1:1 in a 32 oz squeeze), par 3 bottles on ice at DT and swap every 2 hours; it turns a two-pump into one squeeze and dropped us about 6 seconds on avg. Only caveat: you lose ratio flex, so we keep the separate pumps in back for special requests. Want the label and par sheet we use?
We shaved about 4–5 seconds by mounting the two syrups in a dual‑chamber squeeze with matched [redacted] restrictors so it’s “one squeeze = two,” par 2 bottles on ice at DT and rotate every 90 minutes. If ratio drift bugs QA, batch the acid into the lemonade base for the rush and keep the yuzu peel syrup as the single showy add. @OP what’s your pump volume now — 10 or [redacted]?
We moved to heat‑sealed 0.8 oz portion cups for the yuzu blend during the ‘2–5pm window’ — pop and dump, then top with lemonade — and it cut the added time from ‘6 seconds at the drive‑thru’ to about 2. Small caveat: there’s a few cents of packaging cost and you need tight FIFO because the flavor falls off after 48 hours.
We’ve had luck splitting the build: fold a small dose of the yuzu acid into the lemonade urn for the 2–5 window (we do about 0.5% by volume), then finish each cup with a single pump of the aromatic syrup — “acid first, aroma second” — so it keeps the novelty but drops a step. Par the urn at about 1.5 gal and dump at 60 min to avoid drift; not a magic wand, but it trimmed the drag without dulling the pop. Want me to DM the 2–5 ratios?