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.