McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide
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by makeitrain
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Are mcdonalds locations losing money on soda, or is this just a way to get franchise owners to cough up more to corporate?
by FrankWilhoit
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Makes no sense, because labor dominates, as it always has. But every so often, some executive has a fit about a single, isolated cost statistic and this kind of thing is the result.
by vlucas
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Educated guess on why this is happening:
All the people who get free water cups, then fill them with soda. Happens increasingly often now.
We are moving towards a low-trust society faster each day.
by Ancalagon
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prepare for paid bathrooms next
by silexia
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High trust societies cannot allow illegal migration from low trust societies without becoming low trust themselves.
by ungreased0675
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What is a dirty soda?
by SJetKaran
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self-serve soda fountains are supposedly unclean and harbor lot of bacteria in many places, so this is probably a good thing
by eesmith
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No more half Sprite half Fanta option?
by coldtea
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And everything continues to turn to shit
by pseingatl
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This is awful. Where are homeless people going to go to fill up on Pepsi?
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