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Of course the cups are designed to hold varying ounces of soda. That's why varying amounts of ice is used to make up the difference. The simple fact that one cup is significantly larger than the other, no one actually stops and wonders on how much more of a drink they are actually getting. They assume it's significantly more due to the size of the cups, hence my point.

You are clearly the one stumbling over something that is blatantly obvious.



When I make my own drinks, I put in the ice first. However, if your goal is to fill the cup up with as much as possible, you actually put a little bit of ice in first, then hit the button then finish it off with ice. If you can't see any drink, then you might skeet a little bit more.



Well given that you haven't listed one thing that would fit in that category, I don't see this is relevant.

Yeah, no. Putting ice in after ensures waste, because it's definitely going to splash out. That means the sides of the cup will be sticky as well, which is definitely not satisfying for the customer.

Plenty of companies put fill lines on the bottom of the cup, so employees know how much ice to put in. And the cups aren't designed to be filled to the brim in the first place.

I've never been that excited about not seeing soda in my cup that I skeeted. But that's just my experience.

Liar.

At home, I always put the liquid in the cup, then drop the ice in. This is an incredibly old habit that I picked up from when I was young and didn't understand mass. I would ask my mom if I could have a pop, and she'd say I could have one glass, but that's it. So I'd pour the pop in first, then put the ice in, and thought that way I got more because I could see the level of the liquid rise in the glass when I put the ice in.

I was devastated when I learned that it was just the liquid being displaced by the ice.

I was not a very bright child, but I was an imaginative child. To this day, I still put the ice in last. I would say it's to remind myself humility, but really, it's just a habit now.

It's relevant for drive through orders.

Oh come now! You sure as hell can, or you don't know us as well as you think you do.


Joph pretty much hit the exact points I was going to say (or repeat, or resay, or whatever). Every system I've ever worked with used compressed CO2 and worked on a vacuum pump type of deal. You don't change the syrup boxes until they start making crazy noises cause there's no syrup. It takes like 10 seconds to change them anyway. The vendors adjust the brixers, and while it's possible for some owner to decide to tweak with them to save himself a couple bucks a month, usually if they're out of whack it's just because they get out of whack every once in awhile. I suppose if the guy pouring the drink doesn't pay attention, it's possible to give a customer a drink absent sufficient syrup (right when the box goes dry). Usually, it's noticeable though, but never underestimate the incompetence of someone working the drink station at a fast food place.

The only thing I really have to add is that the whole "with or without ice" thing Alma's trying to make a big deal about only exists at the fountains that the actual employees use. They may have a button that is calibrated for different size cups. And they'll dispense an amount which assumes a preset amount of ice has also been put into the cup. So yes, if you order your drink with no ice, you will not get a drink that's filled with soda, but one that's the same amount of soda, just with less ice. But this isn't because of some evil plot by the owner to ***** you out of that tiny bit of soda, but because the employees are assumed to be too stupid or incompetent to operate a soda machine properly. That's what the buttons are for.


The fountains in the customer area don't have those buttons. If you want a drink with no ice, there's nothing preventing you from filling it all the way to the top. If saving that tiny bit of syrup was really worth doing, those machines wouldn't allow for free flow of the drinks.

Welcome to the thread Brownduck. Sucker!!! ;)

Maybe 16 years ago, there was some idiot who thought that saving a few pennies on syrup was worth the effort, but pretty much every single place that serves any sort of soda has long sense realized that the cost is so low that it's more beneficial to give the customers whatever they want on soda. That's why pretty much every place has customer self-serve fountains now. They hand you a cup and you can refill as much as you like.

Why on earth would anyone spend any effort maximizing the soda/water ratio in the cup when they're letting their customers have as many refills as they want anyway?

No he's not. If you're a drive through customer and complain that you got the wrong drink, then they'll replace it for you for free. If they don't, then they've got retarded managers.

As most everyone has said before, the soda part of a drink is largely immaterial to businesses. No non-idiot is trying to scrimp on soda by tweaking the nozzle dispense ratio or giving you too much ice. If you feel you're getting a lot of ice in your drinks, that's because the company believes that's how much ice the typical person wants. If the syrup to soda water ratio is off it's because the machine has not been calibrated correctly. The economic gain by pleasing customers from serving a consistent product far outweighs the thousandth of a penny saved by trying to cheat them.

Edited, Feb 27th 2012 4:59pm by Allegory

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