No one uses Yelp. Wait times are far from mutually exclusive with high demand.

99% of unhappy customers do not complain, they just don't return. Dutch Bros also doesn't belong to the generation of people that make public complaints on things like Yelp, Google Maps, etc.

Younger adults are far less likely than older adults to actually complain about a visit to a QSR. The price point and availability of competitors isn't worth the time it takes to complain. Especially when you're referring to something like a coffee shop where there is 1,000,000 others that you can visit.

Like I said, I don't doubt that they will grow as well as their stock price.

I do doubt that you know half as much about the company as you think you do though. I was very interested in this company until I started researching them.

First of all, they built their first eat in store like 7/8 years ago. So I don't know why you assume that they are drive up specific, because they aren't.

I also know tons of people that hop from Dutch to Dutch depending on who they may assume is working or running a shift.

The most important point I have is that they have no ethos. The business was built on an extremely low cost build out which is the size of a shed and serving a minimal amount of products. They also mandated in house progression and did theoretically zero outside hiring for seniority positions.

Inhouse progression is no longer even on their radar. They build stores that cost millions of dollars up front. They have extensive menus. They even stooped as low as franchising. They only ended franchising because franchisees were out of control and trashing the brand. I can almost guarantee you they will get back into franchising within the next 2/3 years (all in the name of growth that will further tarnish their brand)

They're just another company that bends to the will of money and will never stand the test of time.

I'm not doubting their growth, just doubting their process in getting there. They have completely abandoned their roots and will be a completely different company in within the next 5 years.

I don't really understand how waiting 30 minutes for a coffee is somehow a sign of a healthy company to you?

I live in Denver and I can assure you that Dutch Bros has numerous unhappy employees and even more unhappy customers. They're a far reach from what they once were and will end up no differently than any every other brand that forgot its roots.

Their new buildouts are like 5 times the size of their original builds, their original builds were supposed to be a part of their brand.

I'm not debating that the company will grow because obviously it will. The Dutch Bros you see 5 years from now will be nothing like the Dutch Bros that people loved and supported to get it to where it is today though. There are few QSR brands (if not absolutely zero) that stuck to their brand standards throughout their growth.

Being around parents that used pacifiers with their kids made me feel like it was used as a "crutch" for both the child and the parent.

I just never liked the concept of it.

Apparently it's because I like to picture myself sitting on a throne judging the other peasant parents I guess. Tumbleweed over here knows me more than I know myself so you can just ask them.

Ok. As a matter of fact I have 5 kids and I grew up babysitting kids. I apologize for offending you by using the word idiot because I was obviously 100% attempting to insult children.

I'm really not sorry, but hopefully my apology will make you feel better and you will go away. Toodles!

Yes I'm parent shaming. Care to elaborate?

You can think whatever you want but your opinions unfortunately don't change reality.

How exactly can someone not be an idiot as well as curious and easily occupied? I hate to break it to you but it's extremely easy to entertain a stupid person, not so much with the opposite side of the spectrum.

I have 5 kids and I'm also the parent that never used a pacifier.

Good try though I guess

Give them a box for gods sake.

Infants are idiots and are amused by everything around them including themselves. Obviously this rule doesn't apply to every infant but in my own experience I have never met an infant that couldn't keep themselves occupied with basically anything.

This is the reasoning behind people that lock everything up in their homes and baby proof everything. Infants are curious little shits that keep themselves occupied by whatever means possible.

I was so confused by this post. Who gives "screen time" to an infant? Infants amuse themselves by just existing and i couldn't even begin to understand why an infant would need any type of media at all.