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Jul 3, 2025 9:06 PM
5ywjdPumpkinPrincess
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ProbablyNotASuitOfPlatypuses
Flavor suryps for drink fountain thingies
solemnwar
*'nam flashbacks to her 7+ years at 7-Eleven*
Gelaticat
Ah yes, the natural habitat of the Sugar Snake. 🐍
Kalli
You can buy the stuff yourself: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/45143/soda.html but the home systems are some combination of overly expensive, annoying at best to keep sanitary and/or simply too much for a single family to reasonably use. And the consumer version (sodastream) funds genocide and operates factories in settlements.
Arcanum3000
I don't remember the names off the top of my head, but there are other brands doing consumer soda stuff. Better than SodaStream, from what I hear.
mixiekins
news to me about sodastream, glad we upgraded to an old-school soda keg through a local place called gnome brew. thanks for getting the word out!
electronicbovine
Oh yeah? Source for soda stream claim? I got people to send it to
Kalli
https://www.cjpme.org/fs_244 or https://bdsmovement.net/news/%25E2%2580%259Csoda">s_244">https://www.cjpme.org/fs_244 or https://bdsmovement.net/news/%25E2%2580%259Csodastream-still-subject-boycott%25E2%2580%259D
altrdgenetics
big ups for the sauce. I didn't really need a reason to not buy any more bottles but now I have really good reasons.
BryanTenn
When I worked at Wendys as a teen, I stole several bags of Coke syrup.. dried them out, bleached it, then sold it to some Colombians.
newtonsbucket
I am in this post, and I don't love it.
whoatherebigfella
I like what you did there. https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlYW0zbWExaGluN3c2aDFoaDFjaGMwNDJyeXgxbnAwOG8wYWpyN3Z6bSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/3ohs86wqIv7muc3yHC/giphy.mp4
abacab87
When I was doing that, they still came in metal canisters.
whoatherebigfella
I remember changing out the syrup tanks too
mikea77
You probably need to take an Aleve about now, like I do ;)
Mcknizzle
So if you haven’t worked a specific job that deals with food/soda fountains… you can’t talk about the minimum wage… ya hear that low level construction workers and general retail!!! Stop complaining!
RuffyRuffHausen
Nutrients for people in the matrix
foxmichaels
SYRUP! Heavy boxes. And thos pumps that make the psst-pssst noise. Yup.
echofoxtrotbbqthief
Deceivingly heavy. Like, makes you question your own strength heavy.
GTPTB
One of them literally says Diet Coke on it...
FaerieWalnut
Nice, intravenous soda
L0rdinquisit0r
the shite that replaced the reusable cornelius kegs, disposable plastic bags in a box?
mikea77
Yes. Less weight and space. Also has freed up all of those kegs for home brewers.
L0rdinquisit0r
I know, I have 10 of them!
toolzgalore2
That is a bib (bag in box) shelf for soda syrups
thechelonianshelmet
Lol, I remember the steel kegs, fuck I'm old...
Apeofdeath
I gotta go change the Coke-Cola
SirSage
A thousand lifetimes of working food service flashed before my eyes. I need to go have a post rush stress smoke now
Apeofdeath
Go take a smoke break
NorrinxRadd
Always use the back of a spoon to open the box, won't puncture the bag.
Riggityriggitywrecked1
Or punch it awkwardly and hurt your wrist every time 😉
mikea77
Pro tip!
ProfFurryPaws
Back end of a box cutter works too! Use as a blunt metal punch to open the perforation on the new boxes, then use the blade end to cut up the old empty box.
Plagen
I always used a knife and never had an issue, lol
SoulN8
*ksssk*
WindowStreetJournal
Somebody is being arrogant saying only fast food workers are paid on minimum wage.
Sorrontis
mc'd's soda machine? I never worked in food, but I worked for minimum wage (and less)
umbrael
Soda syrup packs! You hook them up to the soda machines. If you didn't get that ratio right, it was some pure unfiltered Wilford Brimley style dia~beetus!
5ywjdPumpkinPrincess
https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlbTZuYWRldXJqd3JycGd0NHVqYzU4eWlwZTM0M2l5amI4bzZ4bHpqYyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/5xtDarmwsuR9sDRObyU/giphy.mp4
IliveINyourHEADrentFREE
Its a fast food soda syrup dispenser that goes to the soda machines.
5ywjdPumpkinPrincess
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlYzJpdmt0YXF4ZzF5aTBwNG8zajM0YzhrejRjajZhbHhiaGRqMTV1ZiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/AeWoyE3ZT90YM/giphy.mp4
kidonanescalator
Many of you are guessing what they are, but getting the mix right was not a guessing game.
Tattooedpariah
This. Fucking this. Thank you!
whoatherebigfella
Brix cup?
majorPUFFEN2
I’ve never seen one of those and I did fast food over 30 years ago now
kidonanescalator
Oh wow. Core memory unlocked
Stringgeek
Or tips
Tattooedpariah
If you know what all that is, but don't know what this is, i want to talk to you about your shitty drinks...
Wolfshead009
I usually had the tool that you put a small amount under a plastic flap and looked through it at a light.
McTaco
Most places nowadays brixing is tuned by the distributor now. You can manually turn on the syrup anymore
HenryGant
Brix thingy.
Necrothean
Sure. Call the big two, not the store you bought it in. Pepsi and Coca Cola both force you into their maintenance program, and this is part of that. You don't control mix.
cuddleskunk
I know what it is from having worked at Wendy's...but let me tell you, this isn't a difficult thing to guess...the damn brand labels are on the boxes. On top of that, there are a ton of minimum-wage jobs out there that don't have you working with a drink fountain. Do you really think fruit pickers have a soda fountain as part of their employment?
LordoftheSpell
If I had to hazard a guess, it is soda bags in boxes that is being pumped into a soda machine at a fast food place.
whereismymind86
correct!
DesolateMirror
American dialysis machine
ExquisiteConundrum
Pshew pshew pshew pshew
GravyEducation
Perform mantis strike to open
Cmbyrd0001
Soda fountains are fed by syrup in those bags. Water and carbon dioxide are added at the point of service. Cheaper than shipping a bunch of water. You really only see these when you work in food service, which is mostly minimum wage jobs.
ImNotAnOrange
I like watching all the little different spurts you get on the digital coke machines
boxak
One place I worked at had this stuff in pressurized canisters. Easier to change but heavy as shit to haul around.
inimitableSoliton
What are you, the narrator?
Apollymkatistrafia
My first job was a sub shop with these. The owner almost sent the teenager on staff into a diabetic coma bc he hooked regular coke to the diet line.
teardropivyyearofthetiger
Movie theatre experience here.
studog2010
Food service or convenience stores!
chiefrunswithscissors
I worked in fast food that didn't have soda fountains so I still didn't know what this was
Gimickguy
So called post-mix soda
nclu
These are usually placed near the cry box
DianNaoChong
Lifeguard friends said he quit after they made him start changing these out
zafner
Hey by the way, "don't ship water" is a very effective way to help reduce environmental impact in general. Hank Green recently started a new project where he sells household cleaning crap and it's much cheaper and more environmentally friendly for this exact reason. I'm still trying to burn up my old cleaning products but in the future I think that's what I'm going to try to do: buy from him, or at least avoid buying and shipping water. The sheets of detergent work extremely well IMHO
livingonagiantfireball
I learned about these working maximum salary job fixing air conditioning
phuzz00
I know what they are, but I never used them. The pub I worked at was owned by a brewery which was owned by a ridiculously old-school bloke who didn't like them, so if someone ordered a coke, it came in an actual glass bottle.
Ehtac213
What year did they switch to boxes?
Heketon
Our theaters were all bag-in-box. That would be 1989. Some still had cylinders depending on the vendor.
Meltemi
I remember dealing with these from maybe 20 years back?
nclu
Can confirm, I was changing these in 1997
GrandAdmlStrife
Yep, before this the syrup was in 3ft tall tanks
Wolfshead009
The McDonalds I was at switched mid 90's.
purpleparli
It was sometime in the early 90s. In the 80's these were giant metal cans.
(this is about 2.5 to 3 feet tall, roughly a meter)
PinPointSnarkuracy
YESSS!! We found a couple of these at a junk yard when we were in high school, cleaned them up, and used one as a pressure vessel to feed pressurized air to a second one full of water. Full household garden hose pressure! But portable!
Longtimelurkerfinallymadeone
You can still find those being used, but kinda rare.
reverendfixxxer
You can buy these at my local brew supply place for filling with your own beer/wine/cider and loading into a kegerator.
Longtimelurkerfinallymadeone
I mean in use on soda fountains :)
HenryGant
I can still hear them.
PlasmaBhut
My dad, worked for a company that did service and install of those machines, used to have to service some restaurants with idiot managers that would call him up in the middle of the night for some emergency break down when it was just one of the bags didnt have it's cardboard box because the new guy was told to unpack things and did his job as instructed.
DarkBusterBaron
And one of those weighs 70 pounds.
Shaodyn
These are kind of annoying to change, too. They're like 5 gallons (IDK metric that well, maybe like 20-25 liters), which is heavy. 40 pounds/20-ish kilos.
daerwyn
Yeah I was gonna say, heavier than they look
mikea77
Count yourself lucky. Back in the day they were in these 5 gallon metal canisters that weighed at least double that.
Badprenup
The worst two parts of dealing with them in my opinion are that the perforations on the box are junk so you have to beat the cardboard around the opening to get it to tear open and when the bag shifts during shipping so the nozzle is nowhere near the opening.
somnif
And god help you deal with the unholy mess that comes from one getting damaged or dropped
DongleDingler
It was either Coke or ICEE that printed instructions on the carton when I worked at a movie theater as decade ago, but I would tell new hires to follow along and first "stick your finger in the "A" hole"
whiskeywonka
Id far rather deal with these than what they were when I was a kid. They were all steel containers and were around 90lbs~120lbs each. You had to run a compressed line into each container and another out to the machine.
Shaodyn
I wouldn't be able to get that off the ground.
Wolfshead009
I started with these and then switched to the boxes. Both had their problems. You smash your finger with the boxes, but the cans never got crushed when they shifted in delivery.
Shaodyn
And you often have to lift them to waist or shoulder height and manhandle them into place.
altrdgenetics
and most of that manhandling is because they are in this tiny ass closet with no HVAC so it is hot as balls in there and a big pita due to no elbow room
Spiderbutts
And then there's the customer at the counter yelling "IS IT WORKING YET?" after they abused you for 10 minutes about there being no Dr. Pepper. You're hobbit-sized, so of course the Dr. Pepper is on the top shelf, and you're fighting for your life hoping you don't slip a disc...
Shaodyn
Even when there is a good amount of space, such as when there are dedicated shelves, it's still a gigantic pain. They're heavy and awkward.
morbidconcerto
Somehow, even when you *just* opened it yourself, it's ALWAYS sticky! I used to work food service and a gas station and these are one of the worst parts, especially the ones for Icees.
thegreatninjaman
and the fucking Cardboard is never easily broken off so you have to sit there punching it or slapping it.
Shaodyn
I work with a guy who once tried to cut one of the boxes open, even though they say not to. He accidentally punctured the bag inside. Ended up with a trail of sticky syrup gunk all the way out to the dumpster when he had to throw it out.
DoingItWrongSince1980
Yup. And if you've ever had a soda fountain only dispense unflavored carbonated water, it's because one of these bags of syrup ran out and no one swapped it for a new one.
LastEverUsername
Our one had a special hidden switch for the unflavoured water!
nation543
They make a loud click/spray noise when they're out. If you're an employee, you gotta keep an eye on these through your shift and when you hear that noise, you gotta swap them out.
CaptainSkyhawk
6 people in line, my other shift member fucking around or just late, someone gets one more fountain drink and then I hear it- Tsht-Tsht-Tsht-Tsht-Tsht- from the back room and I know it wont stop until I go back there and change the BIB. Ugh.
DoingItWrongSince1980
Jeez. You just summoned those sounds for me and I almost jumped up to swap boxes like some kinda fast food sleeper agent.
PorneliusHubertII
More and more lately I have been served flat drinks or overcarbonated soda from lack of syrup. It's annoying as fuck but I feel bad complaining to the underpaid workers.
ItAintAllitsCrackedUpToBe
Having been the underpaid worker ($3.15/hour yes, it's been a minute) we could only do anything about replacing the syrup. If the water/CO2/syrup mix was out of whack, that was a "call the guy to service the machine" thing.
PorneliusHubertII
I did a 3 week stint at a KFC. I'm very much aware, which is why I hesitate to make it the workers problem.
Rogahar
Depends how you do it, speaking as someone who served my time in the customer service trenches. Just tell one of them "hey, I think the syrup for the [drink] is out cos it only gave me fizzy water" and they'll more than likely swap it out ASAP. Kick up a stink and bitch about it and they'll tell you its out even if there's 4 more in the back lol
PorneliusHubertII
My main problem is that it happens 7/10 times now. I don't mind asking politely once or twice, but I can't do it every time.
WombatHammer
Depending on where you go, they might just be that busy. I'd change Coke at least once a day, and that was a frickin' Chili's.
LychFinderGeneral
I mean it's not that big a deal to be like "Hey sorry man I think the soda machine is out of syrup."
PorneliusHubertII
Yea, It's not hard, but I don't feel like doing it every single time I order food.
LychFinderGeneral
Every single...what?