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Poll: How much do you think it costs restaurants to make soda?

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GoldenTiger

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I will post up the ACTUAL amount (confirmed by a few owners I am friends with) tomorrow night. Keep in mind, vote price-wise for a 20oz. soft drink (any normal one such as pepsi, diet coke, 7up, sprite, hi-c, etc.)

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE IN THE POLL!
 
By the way, if anyone else actually knows, don't spoil the answer out to everyone 🙂. A clue that might help is to think about how the soda is made...
 
Syrup and water. My brother used to work at a bar. They get a box of syrup and add it to water. Cheap as.
 
The cup costs more than the soda does, the actual soda is mere pennies at most. Most of the cups volume is consumed by the ice. Why do you think fast food joints sell a hamburger for a buck, there making a $1.20 on the large drink. Now apply this to the movie theater and you realize how much you are truly being ripped.
 


<< Syrup and water. My brother used to work at a bar. They get a box of syrup and add it to water. Cheap as. >>


Since when is water carbinated?
 
Ok, ok... people here aren't as dumb as I thought (except one person who voted 10-20 cents 🙂). It costs between 2-3 cents for about 20-25 ounces of soda. How the machines work is there's a tank of syrup hooked up to the machine with water pipes in it. When you press the button to pour it, a small amount of the syrup mixes with the water, and then gets carbonated at the very end of the trip (at the nozzle where you can see it) by being swirled violently with air. It then pours out into your cup, awaiting consumption 🙂.

/me thought he was going to get to laugh at people thinking 20/40cents 😉.
 
some drinks like lemonade arent carbonated. and they still charge as much as they do or pop if not more

C02 is cheap.

and then gets carbonated at the very end of the trip (at the nozzle where you can see it) by being swirled violently with air.

That part's not entirely accurate. You can shake a bottle of water as violently as you want, within seconds of the time you stop there won't be any bubbles left. Carbonation is different, it's gas that's forced into solution.

Viper GTS
 


<< some drinks like lemonade arent carbonated. and they still charge as much as they do or pop if not more. >>



Lemonade is sugar mixed with water, and a SLIGHT (<3% on even the best brands like minutemaid/tropicana) amount of lemon juice. Drinking a full cup of lemon juice would be kind of hard, anyway, if you think about lemon juice for a half second 😀.
 
Don't ya hate it when the soda is like, weak. It actually tastes like pure carbonation (this seems to happen mostly with Orange soda)
 
It doesn't cost restaurants to make soda...the soda is already made...they just hook up the 3 different items (syrup, water, c02) to the machine and turn it on.

But they are punks for making so much $$$ from it.

Homer
 
Even with NO ice in the cup at all, you can buy 5 gallons of syrup for about $10-13, which each make a HUGE amount of soda. Do the math out and you'll realize... restaurants make almost ALL of their money on soda. They sell their food near-cost (usually only 5-15 cents margin of profit), and then rip you off on the drinks.

Ronstang, that's exactly why I smuggle cans of soda in with me to the movies 😀. Same with candy most of the time 🙂. Too bad popcorn can't realistically be snuck in lol 😀! I was in a Boston Market this afternoon, watching a lady argue with the manager over not being able to use a $2 off 10 coupon on a large dinner platter that was already being discounted. He said that they can't apply coupons to specials, so she started whining about how she wanted to swap the sodas for side dishes. Obviously, the manager said that store policy prohibits it, yet she stood there for LITERALLY 20 minutes arguing. I think the manager got VERY p.o.'d once she started inquiring about why the **** he was discriminating against coupon-users and those who prefer not to drink with their meals. He finally had her escorted out (after ruining my meal with her incessant whining 🙁). I'm laughing about it now, but MAN was it annoying while I was trying to eat 🙂.
 
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