I agree, I went on a road trip recently and drank a lot of coffee on the road. a lot of it was from McDonalds, but I was pleasantly surprised how all the machines at the gas stations were freshly brewed coffee at the push of a button. I would have never conceived that gas stations would one day have consistently decent coffee 10 years ago.
I think it's a combination of gas stations realizing that they need to "upscale and branch out" because eventually at some point cars won't be going to them as often, and major advancements (e.g., getting cheaper) for robotic machines that can make coffee.
We're a long way from a five gallon jug of coffee that hasn't been cleaned out since 1982.
