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That's pretty close, but we don't really have 'batches' as the number of orders that get put in is arbitrary, it's based on a lot of factors. If we're busy, we're busy. If we're not busy, that still doesn't mean it'll be made quickly - there are things to consider like, your final measurement set and spec (people change these like a month later) going across town and getting zippers dyed to match if one orders a non-black jacket, which takes several days of dying and then drying plus delivery or pickup, getting the leather ordered, paid, then delivered, and making sure all the hardware pieces are in. Since the zippers come from Japan, there was a wait on the whiskey leathers recently as we got bumrushed and ran out of the dyable zips. Happens sometimes - it'd be like a small countryside McDonald's getting hit up unexpectedly by a statewide convention of high schoolers on school buses and running out of burger buns, and having to go get more from the nearest McDonald's 30 minutes away. That happens on freak occasions.
Why we don't make everything in the exact order by timestamp - it's like putting together McDonald's hamburgers, of course - you wouldn't want to get a family sized order at once and then make a cheeseburger, then a big mac, then some chicken mcnuggets, and then go back and make another big mac, another cheeseburger, and some more mcnuggets - you'd pair them by kind within a reasonable timeframe so you can squirt the ketchup and mustard on two burgs at once, the special sauce on two big macs at once - small economies of scale, even if it's economy of effort.
From my understanding, it's done in batches. So your wait is typically longer if you miss a cutoff or if you order something infrequently made--shorter if you luck out and get in right at the end of a batch.
However, this is purely speculation.
That's pretty close, but we don't really have 'batches' as the number of orders that get put in is arbitrary, it's based on a lot of factors. If we're busy, we're busy. If we're not busy, that still doesn't mean it'll be made quickly - there are things to consider like, your final measurement set and spec (people change these like a month later) going across town and getting zippers dyed to match if one orders a non-black jacket, which takes several days of dying and then drying plus delivery or pickup, getting the leather ordered, paid, then delivered, and making sure all the hardware pieces are in. Since the zippers come from Japan, there was a wait on the whiskey leathers recently as we got bumrushed and ran out of the dyable zips. Happens sometimes - it'd be like a small countryside McDonald's getting hit up unexpectedly by a statewide convention of high schoolers on school buses and running out of burger buns, and having to go get more from the nearest McDonald's 30 minutes away. That happens on freak occasions.
Why we don't make everything in the exact order by timestamp - it's like putting together McDonald's hamburgers, of course - you wouldn't want to get a family sized order at once and then make a cheeseburger, then a big mac, then some chicken mcnuggets, and then go back and make another big mac, another cheeseburger, and some more mcnuggets - you'd pair them by kind within a reasonable timeframe so you can squirt the ketchup and mustard on two burgs at once, the special sauce on two big macs at once - small economies of scale, even if it's economy of effort.
