And it travels.

The same platform is running 2,100 miles away in a downtown Palo Alto retail corridor that shares nothing with a university block — no campus, no semester, no student base. It opened in October 2025 and has kept going straight through the summer and winter breaks that empty out Champaign. Best week there: $11.8K (week ending March 30, 2026, POS-verified). Two markets with nothing in common, one machine, and neither of them depends on the other.