This is one of the worst inventions to be accepted into the mainstream culinary world...

>Go to machine
> go to water screen
> tap the three bubbles at the top of the screen
>congrats now you're in service mode
>if employees are dumb, start disabling flavors

You can also open the bottom door to get to the flavor cartridges but that's suspicious as fuck.

These machines are such a pain in the ass. All the syrup comes in giant ink jet looking carriages and has to be changed pretty much every fucking day.

poorfag here. I just order a small water at fast food restaurants. it comes out of these machines dirty no matter how long i let it run.

>Still no Pineapple Fanta
Why must they do this, it's the fucking shit.

Somebody's tastebuds are Republican

It's incredibly frustrating to get stuck behind a boomer at one of these things.

Something about having a memory of the moon landing makes the menu system is more complicated than theoretical physics.

if this thing takes part in your regular lifestyle, you don't get to complain. change your lifestyle

i don't like these cuz they usually involve getting rid of the sweet tea

>tfw no apple fanta
the only place I've had it was at some random cicis in the ghetto
i ran into a bunch of people separate from each other while there, it was like being at the intersection of different cicis in time and space

>literally everything needs to be touchscreen now
I hate these unreliable pieces of shit. When and why did normalfags decide that buttons were obsolete?

That's because no one cleans them. We have one at my job and the build up on it was so bad that when Coke came to fix it they used a screwdriver and a hammer to chip away the gunk. I told my manager and he said it could be my job to do that. Without any extra pay of course.

You want extra pay for something that's supposed to be done every night as part of closing procedures due to health codes?

Get bent nigger do your fucking job right.

there's probably almost zero health risk to essentially sugar residue

Lol what is mold and insects?

A study came out a few years ago and found roach parts in most of the soda nozzles in McDonald's.

You can just run water through it before you get your drink. No need to taste whatever the previous user was having.

Oh I agree, it should be part of closing procedures. It's not though, and the owner refuses to put it on there. Besides, at this point even if he did no one would do it and he knows that. None of the managers have any spines. We've had people smoke weed in the walk-in fridge, a manager come in, and walk out like nothing happened. The place is a shithole.

> All the syrup comes in giant ink jet looking carriages
As opposed to what, the giant bags in traditional soda fountains?

If you push a triangle in the upper right corner you can get to the menu. Or at least that's how it was when I worked at a movie theater with a similar model as the OP. Then you can fuck around with it.

Source on that study or you're a fag

I like these because they always have vanilla coke. No im not obese

Just dispense some water first before you pick your drink.
Or just drink some fucking soda with your whopper, you pretentious fuck.

I quit drinking soda around the time these things started popping up and I'm glad I did. I see those and just think there is no way that is going to be ok. Seriously, you're supposed to get your Coke from the same tube that just delivered Shast? Fuck.

Have you thought about letting it run a little before you fill your cup moron

>his managers don't smoke weed with their employees

You really do work at a shithole

These things are good as hell. They allow me to get my vanilla coke fix whilst I eat fast food.

Its easier to clean and wipe down, and if customers are touching them you don't want somewhere bacteria can thrive.

Sugar is the perfect medium for bacteria to grow in.

A weak sugar solution, sure.

Sugar in the concentration of cola syrup? No way. That would last pretty much forever without spoiling. Any bacteria which fell into/on that would die instantly from osmotic pressure. High concentrations of sugar is an excellent preservative--consider the fact that honey never spoils.

Can you do anything interesting from the menu?

This is a placebo effect. It does nothing

Yeah, you can activate or deactivate "punishment mode". That maintains a drink blacklist. If a customer selects a blacklisted drink then the machine will fire a crotch-level tazer & shocks the shit out of that customer's groin. The whole process is filmed in 4K and automatically uploaded online.

There's also fatmode, which takes effect when customers select sugary drinks. It displays pic related on the screen while playing pig sound effects. Meanwhile a hidden speaker shrieks "Heeeeeeeeyyyyy FATTY!" at 135 decibels.

My favorite is the strangely named "vegan assist mode". When activated by a customer dispensing "mello yello" this uses a pneumatic cannon hidden in the celing to fire a frozen hamster directly at the skull of any vegans present in the room. The mechanism can fire up to six hamsters a second from a built-in magazine of six dozen and is capable of penetrating a one-inch thick oak door at thirty feet. There is a submode option which changes the hamsters from frozen to rotten.

And thinking the residual syrup has any significant effect if you get enough soda or ice anyways isn't?

lmao

You're right but I hate them because the touch screen is the most unresponsive I have ever used in my LIFE.

>There's also fatmode

your talking about the old one.
the new one deploys a disco ball, strobe lights, and fog effects while playing merry-go-round music featuring the lyrics "your BMI makes the world go round".

Honey spoils if it's anything but absolutely pure.
Even just a little bit of moisture is enough to make it spoil and considering the syrup is mixed with water before it dispenses that nozzle is a breeding ground.

If they haven't locked it down you can disable or enable flavors. You can also open the bottom cabinet.

That's about it really. I don't think you can alter concentrations or anything. I never delved that deep when I worked with one.

Between the massive amounts of sugar and the phosphoric acid I'm not worried in the slightest.

>Soda taste good from old machines
>Soda taste bad from new machines

Just dispense some water for like 3 seconds before pouring your drink you dullard

The sugar is heavily diluted which removes most of its antibacterial properties. And phosphoric acid doesn't start being antibacterial until it's in high concentration that you'll never see in soda. Dentists use a solution that's about 40%, there's not even remotely close to that much in soda and not all soda even has it at all.

Agree.

You must have lost your mind. The vanilla Diet Coke is the bomb The ability to pick and customize, especially the diet options is fantastic.

except the machine is designed to dispense medicine and has been proven not to cross contaminate

This. It aint even a real kitchen if the sous doesnt try to smoke you down to come in on your day off.

Don't you cucks realize that it's an entirely different formula in these machines? There are no longer bags of syrup that mix with carbonated water instead there are little droplets of coke flavor out of a cartridge into carbonated water that makes it taste completely different. Stop defending these shitboxes.

desu i never actually used one

My biggest issue with them is that most places have only one, and people take easily twice as long to get their drinks from them, so sometimes a line forms.

eating fastfood so much that this is a problem kys obese cunt

>fill cup up
>wait for fizz to go down
>machine has gone back to main menu before fizz has gone down so you can fill cup up all the way