https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/business/mcdonalds-self-serve-soda-machines/index.html
phased out by 2032
Holy fuck Mcdonalds plans further ahead than any branch or politician within the US government
Well they're all franchises so it's less of a direct replacement and more of convincing a few thousand small business owning boomers to change something that's been working for them. Probably takes that long just to make sure they don't try to do a coup
I know you're being silly, but it's Fun how any negative effect of late stage capitalism is inherently blamed on communists and socialists in a country where the farthest left any actual person in power gets is still right of center. 😂
Ask a capitalist and a communist to criticize each other's ideas, and they'll both criticize capitalism.
Now I can't create my own soda, which is the best part of fast food soda. Otherwise it's just a shitload of sugar I could've just gotten at the store for cheaper.
Those one-dispenser machines with touchscreens preserve this spirit of alchemy, although they're inherently more gross because different sodas coming out the same hose messes stuff up.
How often are the older style individual ones cleaned in comparison though, to be fair
How to tell if your society has become an overly conservative wasteland of stagnation- Are your
citizensconsumers willing to give up access to a self-serve soda fountain for increased "consistency of experience"? - That's all, that's the book
- Are your
Bullshit. Also bullshit because the new soda machines, the touch screen ones, always break down. MY TREATS!
Its crazy because soda is basically free. Sugar, water, and carbonation are pennies on the gallon to produce. There's no real cost to "Free Refills" given that they're selling you 64oz cups for $5/ea already.
Something something, rate of profit declining...
Even then, they’d be saving next to nothing and likely losing more business than they save. So it’s not extracting a few extra pennies so they can say profits went up, it will probably lose them money.
It almost makes me wonder what the concern is. That shit probably costs less than a minimum wage worker each year.
They first started phasing them out mostly to look like they gave a shit about COVID, as they could conceivably be vector for infection.
I think the reason they're sticking with it is mostly to reduce maintenance and related overhead from running the machines rather than the actual cost of soda.
I totally see it as a disease vector. With that in mind, I can accept the existence of a set of circumstances where I agree they should be done away with. If it wasn't part of an overarching push to privatize every space in society and you could readily expect to get a refill without being hassled, sure
At some point, I think its just someone saying "We shouldn't give anything away for free" up in corporate.
I'm glad they're giving nine years notice. That'll give biologists a chance to study and preserve specimens from this unique microbiome before their habitats are destroyed.
They'll establish several McDonald's wildlife preserves where the coke runs like waterfalls
The fast food chain is eliminating its self-serve soda machines by 2032 at its US restaurants
Economic planning in action.
you guys had self-serve soda machines? is this what we lost the cold war for?! to get worse mcdonalds than the US?
Wondering how many Americans will commit mass shootings at McDonald’s because of this. I’m going to say at least 5.
All the McDonald's here already have. I hate it.
Let me drink a catastrophically large amount of coke zero, Ronald, it's the only reason I liked you anyway!
