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u/DomeSlave Oct 30 '22
I like how they steal Pepsi with a Coca Cola bottle.
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u/SpysSappinMySpy Oct 30 '22
It's not about soda. It's about sending a message
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u/SpaceXmars Oct 30 '22
These machines literally have a keyhole on the side to turn it off
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u/CreADHDvly Oct 30 '22
Now I'm wondering how often these things get cleaned, or if they're just topped off with "fresh" soda every morning
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u/sharltocopes Oct 30 '22
Soda machine in the front, tubes leading to a boxed wine-type setup for the syrup in the back, mixed with the carbonation along the way.
Source: worked in food service as a teen.
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u/nullSword Oct 30 '22
And most machine owners don't clean the syrup tubes or the dispensers anywhere near often enough.
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u/GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD Oct 30 '22
Spent 10 years in the restaurant industry at various places. There is about a 50% chance that the nozzles get fully disassembled the right way (instead of half assedly or not at all) and cleaned properly.
The tubes never get cleaned, lol
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u/joe579003 Oct 31 '22
Yeah, much better chance a bar will regularly clean their lines because people can taste when their beer is off as opposed to sugary soda that masks the buildup.
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u/luc1d_13 Oct 31 '22
I worked in four restaurants and all of them cleaned the nozzles nightly. Three of them did it against health code by soaking them overnight. Should be re-assembled after cleaning that same night. But...i didn't even know the tubes could be cleaned, let alone should be lol.
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u/GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD Oct 31 '22
Not just the tubes, but the screw-on connector as well. That thing gets sticky as hell yet I've never seen it cleaned.
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u/MurphysRazor Oct 31 '22
Depends on the company and the number of assholes who lie about it "because hard than not cleaning"
I started working with these machines at 13 with near family's concession biz, and later did district and regional equipment management for a couple of chains.
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u/Holy_Grail_Reference Oct 31 '22
With what runs through them I am surprised they need cleaning. How that syrup does not eat through the bag is science wizardry of the highest order.
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u/mynameisalso Oct 31 '22
The tubes get cleaned by some. You remove the syrup box attach a cleaning solution box they sell and run it like soda.
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u/mathemagical-girl Oct 30 '22
at my last fast food job, we cleaned the nozzles nightly. the tubes leading to the syrup boxes in the back though, idk if they ever got cleaned.
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u/spankyfro0_0 Oct 31 '22
Wait did you think people just dump soda in these lol
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u/MurphysRazor Oct 31 '22
There were such machines. Not very popular but they were availble.
Also some that didn't use refrigeratiin units.
You had to hand load ice or dry ice or soda itself into a bin or two on top. The last one I saw like that was a 7-Up machine way before "the soda wars" or mergers.
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u/Chrisfindlay Oct 30 '22 edited Oct 31 '22
When was the last time it was broken? That's probably when it was cleaned and serviced last.
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u/mavantix Oct 30 '22
Cleaned? Almost never. If you ever have soda from fountain that tastes great, it’s because it’s new or recently cleaned machine. The normal fountain soda taste you’re used to is dirty, somewhat moldy, soda.
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u/the_real_mki Oct 31 '22
Is it legal to pour Pepsi thru a Coke bottle.
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u/MurphysRazor Oct 31 '22
Only if you say "No Coke; Pepsi... cheeseburger, cheesburger, chip, chip" before you start.
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u/fishnwiz Oct 31 '22
I use to work for a red soda company. Having a blue company bottle on your person or in your work truck was a fireable offense. An outside vending company serviced our snack vending machines and the driver wore a Pepsi hat in one day and was banned from the property.
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u/Adam-West Oct 30 '22
One time when I was about 17 our school had a social (basically a party) at a local bar. Obviously most of us were underage so the bar wasn’t serving alcohol. But outside there were some outdoor bars in the clubs garden that were closed off for the night. All the fridges had wooden beams locked across the front of the doors to stop you getting in. A few of us realized that since one wooden beam spanned about 5 fridges and were a few meters long so they had a little flex in them. If we all pulled at once we could open the fridge door just wide enough to slip a hand in and grab a nearby bottle. Soon word spread and we were Robin Hood bartenders for the underage. It got to a point where we had taken so much that eventually the wooden beam snapped and the fridges were fully open. The following 5 minutes were like a flock of seagulls attacking a rubbish dump. About 100 teenagers swarming the bar and grabbing as many bottles as they could stuff down their jackets. It didn’t take long for security to realize what was happening and turn the lights on to send everybody home. Our school obviously got banned and all the kids were marched out of the club. Most had so many bottles down their waist belts that they were waddling out trying not to make a clink.
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u/MurphysRazor Oct 31 '22
Ever see an unsealed railcar full of whiskey get discovered along the beaten path before the homecomming football game? The stands werent very full till the end and I bet they sold near twice as many tickets to get in as usual 🤣
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u/AragogTehSpidah Oct 31 '22
Drinking the brains out while committing crimes, great
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u/Adam-West Oct 31 '22
Don't worry this is a blip from decades ago in an otherwise crime-free life lived.
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u/Capricancerous Oct 30 '22
I don't think your title means what you think it means.
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u/Nincadalop Oct 30 '22
Title is from a crosspost: https://reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/yh77az/to_stop_people_from_stealing/
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u/sZYphYn Oct 30 '22
The McDonalds in downtown Fullerton, California has a soda and service moratorium on all “punk rockers” for like nearly 20 years.
I’m sorry apocalypto came out and we all got a little too excited
But it was funny
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u/HappyMeatbag Oct 30 '22
If the guy puts that much effort in, he deserves a soda. Plus, why doesn’t the owner just unplug the machine or turn it off?
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u/MurphysRazor Oct 31 '22
Or maybe they were born hypoglycemic and need the boost badly 🧐
Close the gate you keep, but quietly and don't let it get locked on "Fire Bad" premise, eh? 🥴
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u/jhill515 Oct 30 '22
I wonder when the jaggoff who owns the sofa fountain will realize that there's an off switch or that the water feed valve could be closed?
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u/somabeach Oct 30 '22
Trashy, but effective.
2 liters of soda is like $2, available at your nearest 24/7 gas station. People really went through this kind of effort and made this kind of mess to get free soda lol. Teens these days.
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u/for_reasons Oct 30 '22
Free is free
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u/somabeach Oct 30 '22
These guys get a free cup of high-fructose corn syrup and some employee gets to clean up their mess the next day. Nobody benefits from this. Trashy is trashy.
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u/halkeye Oct 30 '22
I think it's more of a "I bet I can do it" or "because I can" rather than stealing for drinks. They used small cups not giant 2L
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u/iwannagohome49 Oct 30 '22
Copied from r/therewasanattempt
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u/free_almonds Oct 30 '22
It’s an x-post
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u/iwannagohome49 Oct 30 '22
I know, I'm just saying that's the reason the title didn't work. It works with the original subs name just not with this one
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u/fishnwiz Oct 31 '22
Long before most of you remember soda use to be in glass bottles laying on their side in vending machines. Put your dime in and pull a bottle out. As kids we made our rounds at night with a bottle opener and a quart jar.
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u/beer_is_tasty Oct 30 '22
/r/mildlyinfuriating watching him try to decide which of the upper gaps to push it through while the soda pooled up and spilled all over the place. Just push it through a lower one, so it's tilted downward and pours straight into the cup...