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McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide
- pseingatl 5mo ago[flagged]
- jfengel 5mo agoThe homeless don't fill up on Pepsi at McD's. Practically all McDonalds' serve Coke. Same with Burger King. If the homeless prefer Pepsi, they have to go to Taco Bell or Subway.
- eesmith 5mo agoNo more half Sprite half Fanta option?
- hulitu 5mo agoNo, only Brawndo.
- ungreased0675 5mo agoWhat is a dirty soda?
- dlcarrier 5mo agoIt's the equivalent to the mat shot term in mixed drinks, which is a mix of ostensibly spilled ingredients into a new drink. In practice, it's not usually a mix of everything but is a mix of multiple syrups that go well together.
- coldtea 5mo agoAnd everything continues to turn to shit
- FrankWilhoit 5mo agoMakes no sense, because labor dominates, as it always has. But every so often, some executive has a fit about a single, isolated cost statistic and this kind of thing is the result.
- joquarky 5mo agoThey don't get that removing all slack from a system makes it brittle.
- SJetKaran 5mo agoself-serve soda fountains are supposedly unclean and harbor lot of bacteria in many places, so this is probably a good thing
- hollandheese 5mo agoHow? They're just using the same machines to fill up your drinks and not letting you have access to them for refills. They're not getting rid of soda fountains.
- suburban_strike 5mo agoThe change is about theft, but I've seen kids fill their cup to the point of submerging the nozzle, then do it again when they go for a refill after drinking it. Self-serve should never have been a thing.
- hollandheese 5mo agoI'm not sure what you're complaining about here. People using a service that they paid for? How is that theft? Further, any "theft" of soda from a soda fountain would be only costing the company pennies basically. The change is about McDonald's not wanting to staff enough to have people actually in the restaurants. They're slow rolling a change to only take out.
- HaZeust 5mo agoAnd if that's what you care about, do you think an unskilled laborer will be much more hygienically-responsible with his low-wage role? I've seen pickles that fell on the kitchen floor continue to be used if the "floor was cleaned recently". The bar of "acceptable behvaior" between a layperson and an unskilled laborer is negligible.
- estimator7292 5mo agoThe fountains behind the counter get cleaned exactly as often as the ones in front (read: approximately never)
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- Ancalagon 5mo agoprepare for paid bathrooms next
- silexia 5mo agoHigh trust societies cannot allow illegal migration from low trust societies without becoming low trust themselves.
- makeitrain 5mo agoAre mcdonalds locations losing money on soda, or is this just a way to get franchise owners to cough up more to corporate?
- vlucas 5mo agoEducated guess on why this is happening: All the people who get free water cups, then fill them with soda. Happens increasingly often now. We are moving towards a low-trust society faster each day.