| ▲ | SJetKaran 16 hours ago |
| self-serve soda fountains are supposedly unclean and harbor lot of bacteria in many places, so this is probably a good thing |
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| ▲ | hollandheese 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| How? They're just using the same machines to fill up your drinks and not letting you have access to them for refills. They're not getting rid of soda fountains. |
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| ▲ | suburban_strike 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | The change is about theft, but I've seen kids fill their cup to the point of submerging the nozzle, then do it again when they go for a refill after drinking it. Self-serve should never have been a thing. | | |
| ▲ | hollandheese 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not sure what you're complaining about here. People using a service that they paid for? How is that theft? Further, any "theft" of soda from a soda fountain would be only costing the company pennies basically. The change is about McDonald's not wanting to staff enough to have people actually in the restaurants. They're slow rolling a change to only take out. | |
| ▲ | HaZeust 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And if that's what you care about, do you think an unskilled laborer will be much more hygienically-responsible with his low-wage role? I've seen pickles that fell on the kitchen floor continue to be used if the "floor was cleaned recently". The bar of "acceptable behvaior" between a layperson and an unskilled laborer is negligible. |
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| ▲ | dlcarrier 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Soda has almost no nutrients, and is acidic and high in sugar. This is not only bad for your health, it's also bad for bacteria's health, so it's practically impossible to get bacteria to reproduce in spilled soda or on the soda nozzles. |
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| ▲ | estimator7292 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The fountains behind the counter get cleaned exactly as often as the ones in front (read: approximately never) |
