Its crazy because soda is basically free. Sugar, water, and carbonation are pennies on the gallon to produce. There’s no real cost to “Free Refills” given that they’re selling you 64oz cups for $5/ea already.
Even then, they’d be saving next to nothing and likely losing more business than they save. So it’s not extracting a few extra pennies so they can say profits went up, it will probably lose them money.
They first started phasing them out mostly to look like they gave a shit about COVID, as they could conceivably be vector for infection.
I think the reason they’re sticking with it is mostly to reduce maintenance and related overhead from running the machines rather than the actual cost of soda.
Bullshit. Also bullshit because the new soda machines, the touch screen ones, always break down. MY TREATS!
Its crazy because soda is basically free. Sugar, water, and carbonation are pennies on the gallon to produce. There’s no real cost to “Free Refills” given that they’re selling you 64oz cups for $5/ea already.
Something something, rate of profit declining…
There is a tendency.
Even then, they’d be saving next to nothing and likely losing more business than they save. So it’s not extracting a few extra pennies so they can say profits went up, it will probably lose them money.
It almost makes me wonder what the concern is. That shit probably costs less than a minimum wage worker each year.
They first started phasing them out mostly to look like they gave a shit about COVID, as they could conceivably be vector for infection.
I think the reason they’re sticking with it is mostly to reduce maintenance and related overhead from running the machines rather than the actual cost of soda.