Oh man I’ve definitely been there. I’m not sure what time you open, but here’s what I would do:

-I had an order for 18 travelers to be picked up by 6am (we open at 4:30)-

Do the normal opening tasks. Do full batches of coffee (they can stay good in there for close to a couple or hours so I’d recommend doing that so you don’t have to worry about grinding or brewing coffee for awhile).

Since there are 4 of you, I’d have one person do the shift lead opening, the other experienced barista help with the other opening tasks, and have the other 2 green beans start setting up all the travelers. Get the boxes prepped for pouring coffee.

In a big Starbucks shopper bag, I would put in sleeves of short cups (you’ll need 180 cups total, I’m not sure how many cups are in one plastic sleeve. I’m guessing you’d maybe need 5 of them?), napkins (optional, but I always put napkins with traveler orders), a bunch of stir sticks (could probably just grab a fresh bag of them and put the whole thing in there), and a bunch of sugars (we’ve filled 3 pastry bags with separate sugars; one bag full of raw, one bag full of white, and one bag full of Splenda). Then I would proceed to just give them gallons of half and half. For one traveler we usually give them a 16oz cup of half and half. I’m not sure what the math would be but I’m guessing maybe 3/4 gallons would do the trick.

Have the green beans practice using the grinder, scooping the beans, and putting the coffee in the travelers while you and the other barista help customers. You can also have them practice using the 8 minute timer so that way once the timer is up, they can start pouring the coffee in and grind the beans again! You can use that time to quiz them on how many scoops are for full, half, and quarter batch. If they’re THAT new and it’s not too busy, you can always do a coffee tasting for fun while you wait for coffee to brew :3

Again idk what time you open but you should be able to get it done within an hour or so :)

If you really wanna cut back the time, ask the closers if they can prep all the traveler stuff (if they’re not too busy) so you can focus on just brewing coffee :) hope this helps!

Each traveler comes with 8 cups, i forget what size they are, but that times 15 would be 120 cups. And then 15 grande cups of cream. The only thing you could do is brew two full batches of pike at the same time and fill them up as they’re brewing. You can also grind up all your beans for all your batches and put them in venti cups and put them on the side so you dont have to keep going back to get more coffee.

recently we’ve been having to make 14 travelers every morning before 5am (we get in at 4) and we always schedule one person to only work on the travelers and nothing else… we never get it done by 5 tho lol