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95% of the cost of a fast food Coke is the cup. There's a reason why McDonalds will sell you any size soft drink for a buck. It sounds like a great bargain and then McD's still makes ninety-five cents profit on it and deflects the lower margins on the dollar sandwiches.

That and the McD's cups are waxed paper.

Except the sweet tea cups which are some weird styrene material. Not quite regular styrofoam but... anyway, I'm not sure what makes sweet tea so special to deserve them but if McD's is sending the extra cash on them, their tea must react with wax to become a toxic poison or something.

No, this means you don't understand how soda machines in restaurants work.

Well, he thinks that because every conversation with a senior NCO he has goes something like this:

I found out as a lance corporal that was the fastest way to make officers go away.

Edited, Feb 23rd 2012 2:16pm by lolgaxe

What are we, back in the 50s? They use this doodad called a "brixer".


To be fair though, it's not unheard of for store and restaurant owners to adjust the brixer to "water down" the drinks so as to squeeze more drinks out of that box of syrup. Never underestimate the silliness of some people trying to make an extra buck. But usually if the drink tastes different or watered down, it's just because the thing isn't quite adjusted right and no one's gotten around to fixing it yet.

I'm always told I belong in the 40s and 50s. Classier time and great music. Absolutely my favorite era. Sure, there were a lot of problems, but I'm white, male, and native to the Northeast so most of it wouldn't directly affect me, heh. Okay, I'd have probably had to go to WWII, but besides that.

I could have been Captain America ...

Sidetrack aside, I wasn't sure what the actual name of the machine was, truth be told, so I went with the best term I could think of for it.

Edited, Feb 23rd 2012 4:56pm by lolgaxe

All I wanted to do was make a terribly cliche poke at Apple for their sordid marketing, and you had to attempt to commandeer an awful joke as part of your even awfuller analogy. You're just begging me to join the Alma put down bonanza aren't you?

I worked at McDonalds for 5ish years, I kinda know how it works. I was the one who had to carry the syrup from the truck to the walk in and back for refill. Get over yourself.



You have not once provided me the AR. I specifically asked for the AR only, no link or any other reference. Quit making stuff up, grow up, be a man and just admit that you were wrong.



You're such a tool. I gave my $.05 in support of a comment that YOU said. Even if I'm somehow wrong, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the argument at hand. Just in case you forgot, my point is that there is a difference between mismanaging money and not needing it. Where, someone who needs money, (i.e. a bum) might need it, but spends it on something that s/he doesn't need (i.e. beer). Just because that individual wasted money on something that wasn't necessary, it doesn't mean that the s/he doesn't need it.

So, unless your "point" with the soda comment somehow contradicts that statement, then I have no interest in playing your lame game.

You are an immature douche.

and your mom dresses you funny.

jokes on you, my mom says Im cool!.

Are we playing the "you do realize" game?

You DO REALIZE that they give out those cups for self-service and you can always ask for no/little ice, RIGHT? Or, for that matter, you can get a large coffee for the same price as a small coffee which has zero ice in it... you DO REALIZE that, RIGHT??

Your experience working fast food isn't exactly unique.


So what?

Edited, Feb 25th 2012 12:00pm by Jophiel

So you've been in the military for five years, and don't know anything, and you worked at McDonalds for five years and didn't learn anything there either. I'm seeing a trend.