These are also good stress relief. The flap on the front has to be opened to expose the neck of the bag, and you can't use a blade without risking cutting the bag. So the most common method I've seen (and used personally) is to throw a couple of right jabs with a closed fist right at the front of the box.
I forget exactly how, but at my first job I did manage to rip one of these before, covering the entire floor in Pepsi syrup. One of the assistant managers walked in shortly after, looked at the mess on the floor I was attempting to clean up and said “it’s fine, I needed something to do anyways, go back to cash”.
My reason for the dislike is it feels more like diagnosing a computer than a soda fountain. I enjoy old analog equipment. However the soda drinker side of me loves using them when they are working well.
Most CO2 tanks and brass fittings don't inject money into the Israeli economy - that's specific to Soda Stream. Also you won't lose your warranty on a CO2 tank for fizzing things that aren't water, but you will with Soda Stream. Also, without a real Soda Stream, you won't be forced to stay in each of a power outlet to run an LED that doesn't accomplish anything except giving the machine a reason to refuse to run without electricity.
Don't compromise - if you get a competing countertop fizzing system with a pretty case, it won't fund a genocidal state, void your warranty for fizzing juice, or require power for no good reason. These are unique Soda Stream advantages.
Feel free to ask me any thing, installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.
What was the worst thing you ever saw? I'm guessing if you maintained them you occasionally were called I to fix things when something went wrong. So what went wrong?
Don't have to be American afaik. That's a box of soda/pop sodapop syrup. You open it up, and connect it to the hoses that connect to the fountain. Can lick tho cap before you toss it too, usually a bit of extra syrup in them. :3
Aaaah OK, no i KNOW that we have these syrup containers in Europe, but never saw one in my life for real. Always thought those where like giant plastic bottles
Soda fountains/soda machines dispense the beverages from a large bag of syrup (maybe the straight beverage itself if they are non-carbonated) that is usually like 3 gallons which mixes with CO2. So the Coca-Cola in the image is hooked up to a tube that funnels the syrup into the machine and mixes with the CO2 to create the beverage you want.
I feel seen & appreciated 🥹 I'm a 100lb girl and those syrup cartons are heavy as fuck and restaurant work is torture and I wanted to eviscerate everyone all day every day.
I have been enlisted in the marines, gotten recalled, worked as a contractor, finished my undergraduate degree and now looking at my PhD. This post just made me 16 again.
The place I worked at had a fraction of that space to work with and management just didn't care. They left it up to the servers to let them know when we were low or out of a particular syrup and it was only me and one other server that bothered to do it.
Been out of the service industry for a while now, but I still have nightmares about being out of Dr. Pepper during a Friday dinner shift.
My situation was abnormal since I was running the procurement for food service at a zoo, so those photos were from my warehouse. It lets me joke about a level of organization basically no restaurant can have.
We'd have to run a BIB across the park when someone forgot to ask for it the night before, so not everything was paradise.
For a good ten minutes, I was trying to work out how someone would use such a small box to change out of. "does it fold out into some silly cardboard variation of a Victorian privacy screen..." etc.. thoughts until I finally re-read it.
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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 63 pts · 143d
Nothing hits quite like freshly changed syrup and a fully charged CO2 tank
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 143d
I can still hear the sounds of the CO2 firing.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 143d
You know? I probably would have forgotten that sound for the rest of my life if I hadn't read this.
Like when you reload the syrup and need to run the fountain a bunch, or when it's out and just endlessly goes psh psh psh psh psh psh
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
Did you all get high?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 143d
That’s no2, your lungs would get sooooo mad if you did a hit of straight co2…
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 143d
These are also good stress relief. The flap on the front has to be opened to expose the neck of the bag, and you can't use a blade without risking cutting the bag. So the most common method I've seen (and used personally) is to throw a couple of right jabs with a closed fist right at the front of the box.
Punching the box is stress relieving.
orangeyouglad@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 143d
This guy knows. I actually don't know how else you would do it?
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 143d
Jackusflackus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 143d
Bat Thumb!
Oka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 143d
Brute force
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
I prefer a palm strike to a closed fist punch
yuri@pawb.social · 5 pts · 143d
sometimes i miss punching these
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 143d
Sometimes I missed while punching these and I hurt my hand.
fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net · 38 pts · 143d
I forget exactly how, but at my first job I did manage to rip one of these before, covering the entire floor in Pepsi syrup. One of the assistant managers walked in shortly after, looked at the mess on the floor I was attempting to clean up and said “it’s fine, I needed something to do anyways, go back to cash”.
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 31 pts · 143d
Non American here... What am I looking at?
Edit: thanks for explaining. Its not an american thing like I thought in the first place ^^
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 143d
BIB - Bag in a Box
Standard format for soda and juice sryurps around the world. Dispensed via a fountain or a bargun.
Feel free to ask me any thing, installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.
Just don't ask me anything about freestyle machines, cause I don't know jack about those monstrosities.
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 12 pts · 143d
That is the first time that somebody made soda equipment sounds interesting and I am ready to dive into a new rabbithole while I cannot sleep 😆
What are "freestyle machines"?
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 143d
https://youtu.be/-a29Ygyzc2c
I expected that response, see the fern video.
My reason for the dislike is it feels more like diagnosing a computer than a soda fountain. I enjoy old analog equipment. However the soda drinker side of me loves using them when they are working well.
phailhaus@piefed.social · 10 pts · 143d
Free-style is Coke's brand of pick-your-flavor touchscreen hell.
mossy_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 143d
you asked the one thing they told you not to...
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 143d
How much would it be to install a single flavor fountain in-home? And what would be the most expensive parts?
Furbag@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 142d
Shit I've been wondering this as well. It's probably not a super complicated mechanism behind the opaque facade.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 143d
What're your thoughts on SodaStream?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 143d
You can achieve the same results with any CO2 tank and a few brass fittings
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 143d
Most CO2 tanks and brass fittings don't inject money into the Israeli economy - that's specific to Soda Stream. Also you won't lose your warranty on a CO2 tank for fizzing things that aren't water, but you will with Soda Stream. Also, without a real Soda Stream, you won't be forced to stay in each of a power outlet to run an LED that doesn't accomplish anything except giving the machine a reason to refuse to run without electricity.
Don't compromise - if you get a competing countertop fizzing system with a pretty case, it won't fund a genocidal state, void your warranty for fizzing juice, or require power for no good reason. These are unique Soda Stream advantages.
MimicJar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
What was the worst thing you ever saw? I'm guessing if you maintained them you occasionally were called I to fix things when something went wrong. So what went wrong?
Securus777@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d
So I'm thinking of picking up a used system off Facebook, good or bad idea?
snoons@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 143d
Don't have to be American afaik. That's a box of soda/pop sodapop syrup. You open it up, and connect it to the hoses that connect to the fountain. Can lick tho cap before you toss it too, usually a bit of extra syrup in them. :3
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 9 pts · 143d
Aaaah OK, no i KNOW that we have these syrup containers in Europe, but never saw one in my life for real. Always thought those where like giant plastic bottles
mumblerfish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
I have changed these in Europe, so yeah, not limited to the US.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 143d
That's only because the US is not limited to the US -_-
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 143d
Ahh didn't see the Coca Cola logo at first, I thought it was the ketchup boxes you hook up to the pump at the self service station.
phailhaus@piefed.social · 7 pts · 143d
Here's Heinz Ketchup/mustard keystone bags:
As a bonus, here's a used bag from a batch that probably should have been recalled due to a packager malfunction:
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 143d
I assume these other connectors should not be in there?
phailhaus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 143d
Nope. They were floating in the ketchup instead of being embedded in the wall of the bag.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 143d
It's like art. Funny, I was just talking about Dadaism under another post lol
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 143d
It's soda syrup. Fast food places buy these and CO2 dispensers to make soda that most Americans drink.
hopesdead@startrek.website · 7 pts · 143d
Soda fountains/soda machines dispense the beverages from a large bag of syrup (maybe the straight beverage itself if they are non-carbonated) that is usually like 3 gallons which mixes with CO2. So the Coca-Cola in the image is hooked up to a tube that funnels the syrup into the machine and mixes with the CO2 to create the beverage you want.
phailhaus@piefed.social · 5 pts · 143d
It is mixed with CO2 and lots of water. usually about 5:1, so this BIB makes 30 gallons of soda.
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 143d
I feel seen & appreciated 🥹 I'm a 100lb girl and those syrup cartons are heavy as fuck and restaurant work is torture and I wanted to eviscerate everyone all day every day.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 142d
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 143d
Thank you but somehow not even close to the worst task I’ve had.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 143d
True, but there is a high corelation between this job task and a whole lotta bullshit.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 15 pts · 143d
FALCON PUNCH
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 143d
The only way!
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 143d
This was my second favorite part of my job at Cracker Barrel after tending the fire in the fireplace.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 143d
Fair, but f**k those toasters, right? They should not get that hot.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 143d
I never had that problem because I remembered my training and used appropriate safety measures before cleaning the toaster.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 142d
Good. I know someone who got burned because that location put them overhead near other supplies.
njordomir@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 143d
It was my dream to throw one of these off the theater roof and watch it go splat. We never did that, but we did do syrup shots.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 143d
Pouring out a glass directly from these was the best perk of the job.
Rakonat@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 143d
Don't drop them off the top shelf. They do not mop up.
Dotcom@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 142d
One time I had one up on the top shelf and "pop" spraying syrup all over me. I swear I smelled like cherry coke for a week.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 142d
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 143d
Why was it always sticky?
MOCVD@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 143d
I have been enlisted in the marines, gotten recalled, worked as a contractor, finished my undergraduate degree and now looking at my PhD. This post just made me 16 again.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 142d
Hey, congratulations.
knotRyder@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 142d
I am lying in bed trying to have a nap and you made my back hurt shame on you
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 143d
I had a bigger problem digging out the syrup I needed from the haphazardly stacked boxes of other syrup
phailhaus@piefed.social · 6 pts · 143d
You gotta keep 'em organized!
For a few years, I kept them on a shelf at head height. That was a mistake that I let go on too long.
Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 143d
The place I worked at had a fraction of that space to work with and management just didn't care. They left it up to the servers to let them know when we were low or out of a particular syrup and it was only me and one other server that bothered to do it.
Been out of the service industry for a while now, but I still have nightmares about being out of Dr. Pepper during a Friday dinner shift.
phailhaus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 142d
My situation was abnormal since I was running the procurement for food service at a zoo, so those photos were from my warehouse. It lets me joke about a level of organization basically no restaurant can have.
We'd have to run a BIB across the park when someone forgot to ask for it the night before, so not everything was paradise.
Javi@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 143d
For a good ten minutes, I was trying to work out how someone would use such a small box to change out of. "does it fold out into some silly cardboard variation of a Victorian privacy screen..." etc.. thoughts until I finally re-read it.
Damn skim reading got me assuming again.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 143d
I'm still at that stage, don't spoil ! it might dawn on me at some point
BoosBeau@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 143d
It's been over 20 years since I swapped one of these out, and my hands are still sticky. Some things won't come out with soap... only fire...
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 143d
pfft nothing compared to changing the keg on a wooden real ale rig in a British pub.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 143d
Hell yeah. I only changed 1/2 kegs, but there was a time I needed to carry a full one by hand. Never again.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 143d
I have to assume if you’ve handled one of these you’ll be able to answer – how’d it taste?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 143d
Also I seem to remember coke weighs like 30lbs, and diet coke weighs about 20lbs. That sugar really adds to it
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 143d
That's actually really interesting.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 143d
Like suckling from God's teat
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 143d
Kinda like extra sweet bbq sauce. Same stickiness too.
snoons@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 143d
Thanx, they tasted pretty good too. Specially when you don't have enough for lunch.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 3 pts · 143d
You too broseph, practically a rite of passage
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 143d
Ahh yes, the best thing to do to open it was put on a glove then vent all frustrations for that day into it.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 143d
Is that the one where you poop in the box?
daggermoon@piefed.world · -2 pts · 143d
I hate people complaining that the coke is out. Go drink Pepsi, it's the same thing. Or better yet drink Diet.
HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 143d
Pepsi zero is perfection
daggermoon@piefed.world · 1 pts · 143d
It's my favorite as well.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 143d
First of all, how dare you lol