>make and sell coffees faster

i read that "espresso" actually means "made one at a time expressly for you" rather than "made at an express pace", but wiktionary has it as meaning "squeezed out"

the french baguette though is a modern invention designed to require less time to prepare because labor regulations cut baker's hours.

Espresso was first known as crema coffee. It was a sensation that people queued for rather than a mundane efficiency improvement or "fast foodification" of an existing product. The crema and intense flavour made it special.

I think it would be slower to prepare than pre-espresso cafes that batch brewed with multiple samovars.

i'm not saying Italy doesn't have fast food, or that food trends around the world don't influence each other, I'm saying at the time these questions were raised about "is pizza American or Italian?", fast food was an American export in the same way pasta was imported from Italy. The famous Italian Slow Food movement is explicitly making that claim.