They often give a slightly different cup style -- sometimes one that is clear and/or doesn't have a lid available and/or is smaller.
That said, the problem here isn't whether someone fills the cup with soda, but rather whether someone can dispense soda from the machine in the first place, so if anything your point is more relevant to restaurants leaving their drink dispensers directly accessible by guests.
Restaurants with self-serve fountain drinks already let you get unlimited refills. I suspect those restaurants get their profits from other stuff and can afford to give away soda.
Or they're ridiculously overcharging for the fountain drinks (to make up for all the free refills and such), and we're all chumps for paying full price.
Restaurants with self-serve fountain drinks already let you get unlimited refills. I suspect those restaurants get their profits from other stuff and can afford to give away soda.
Or they're ridiculously overcharging for the fountain drinks (to make up for all the free refills and such), and we're all chumps for paying full price.
Yeah this is actually probably the real explanation. (I was gonna come back here to post something like this before seeing yours.) If you're already budgeting for giving people the second, third, and fourth cup of pop for free, it can't possibly make much of a difference if once in a while people get the first one free too, so long as they're paying for food.
Restaurants with self-serve fountain drinks already let you get unlimited refills. I suspect those restaurants get their profits from other stuff and can afford to give away soda.
Or they're ridiculously overcharging for the fountain drinks (to make up for all the free refills and such), and we're all chumps for paying full price.
i've heard that the actual cost of the liquid from a drink fountain is about ten cents. that said if the drinks were less expensive other things would probably be more expensive to compensate
Restaurants with self-serve fountain drinks already let you get unlimited refills. I suspect those restaurants get their profits from other stuff and can afford to give away soda.
Or they're ridiculously overcharging for the fountain drinks (to make up for all the free refills and such), and we're all chumps for paying full price.
i've heard that the actual cost of the liquid from a drink fountain is about ten cents. that said if the drinks were less expensive other things would probably be more expensive to compensate
Do you know if that figure includes the drink mix and/or a prorated lifetime depreciation of the machine?
That said I've heard that fast food places make a huge profit margin off of drinks.
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(Do "most fast food places" even have self-serve drinks? I feel like it's at best 50-50 in my experience.)
That said, the problem here isn't whether someone fills the cup with soda, but rather whether someone can dispense soda from the machine in the first place, so if anything your point is more relevant to restaurants leaving their drink dispensers directly accessible by guests.
That said I've heard that fast food places make a huge profit margin off of drinks.