/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6281021
I wouldn't be surprised if they track the popularity of all the mixtures and will eventually make some of the more popular ones "official" versions of coke

First-worlder here.

Fill me in. The fuck is this and how does it work?

>>6281037
>First-worlder here.
>Doesn't have Freestyles
I got news for you, chappie.

>>6281037
So you don't live in the US then? Since they are everywhere here.

With all of those flavors coming out of one nozzle, everything ends up tasting weird.

>>6281041
>>6281077
Successful American Freedom Jew Corporate Programming detected

What are some good flavor combos? Like cherry Fanta and lime Fanta or things like that

I usually do Cherry Coke or Vanilla Gingerale.

>>6281091
sprite w/ lemonade

Barq's needs to make a non-caffeinated version and put it in these machines. I'm really surprised there isn't one with all of the other flavors available on these things.

mix everything like at any other soda machine

>>6281107

are you joking? besides bawl g33k b33r or w/e its called i cant think of ANY rootbeer thats caffeinated.

Cherry Mr Pibb Extra

All of them are terrible. give me an old school soda machine and a bag in the box any day

I've always wanted to try one of these, but in my town that means going to Burger King. And I won't go to Burger King.

>>6281026

They do. Several years ago I had a chance to go to the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting. They own a nice chunk of coca cola and they had a demo on the show room floor for these prior to their wide release when they were still on the test market.

They are able to instantly send data to Atlanta. They may be a pain in the ass to sometimes use, especially when its busy but Coca Cola doesn't care. They have the power to instantly track their product and that is a powerful tool. They know that cherry coca cola is the best selling product between 4-5pm at the Burger King in Peoria, Illinois and if it plays in Peoria, it will play anywhere.

>>6281021
couple of fast food places around my house got rid of the freestyle.
fucking mexicans

We have one these at the pizza place I go to. I always get cherry fanta and mix it with sprite

>>6281021
filthy touchscreen

>>6281021
I tried Raspberry Coke for the first time out of one of these things just last week. I thought it tasted like cough syrup in coke.

Hi-C Orange Vanilla. Can't get enough of the stuff.

>>6281188
Barq's is the only type of root beer available on these machines. There's one of these at my work, and I fucking love root beer, but I don't drink caffeine, so I'm SOL.

>>6281256
>Cherry Coke finally getting recognition.


About fucking time. Its the only coke I'd drink for over a decade.

>>6281495
I can't have soda, it makes me break out in hives for some reason. I used to get the lemonade out of the one at my old work. I loved putting all the flavors in there and I had to go back in forth in what to put in mine because our machine was always out.

>>6281256
All of the burger kings in Peoria are fucking garbage

>>6281559
Peoria is pretty garbage in general.

>>6281021
Peach Mello Yellow

>>6281077
Not OP, Canadafag though. the only place I've seen them so far in was Canada's Wonderland, and some machines had limited flavours. Disappointing.

>>6281573
I agree.

source: I grew up there

>>6281021
Water, Freestyle machine are a huge disappointment for water drinkers.

>>6281021
>lime coke
>raspberry coke
>cherry vanilla dr pepper

>>6281495

weird, never knew it had caffeine. for what its worth i doubt the 22mg is going to even have a noticable effect on you

>buy a bunch of different extracts or flavoring syrups
>add to drinks or whatever you want to make any mix of flavors you want at home

How pleb can you possibly be.

Any of the citrus flavors in diet coke and regular coke. I personally love putting a wedge of lemon in my coke that I get at in-n-out, goes so well with a number one with chilis, mustard fried and a whole grilled onion

>>6281882
Are you fucking kidding? 22Mg of caffeine would have me wired for at least a week.

>>6281256
Since I'm sure that this thread is a play off collecting marketing data as well, let me just say that the new interface is terrible. If you guys, Coke, were smart you would just do one circle for diet and another for regular...

>>6281579

Get a load of this patrician.

None. Every flavor tastes like club soda mixed with corn syrup.

>>6281256
Oh look, another central-illinoisfag. Peoria's shit.
Love, Bloomington

>>6281077
Define everywhere? I've driven up and down the east coast and never seen one of these things before. Maybe I've just been passing them and not noticing; I don't drink tonic.

>>6281021
This thing is an abomination, everything tastes like a graveyard. Do not use

>>6281081
you don't know much about how things work, do ya buddy.

>>6281021
As someone who used to work at a movie theater and had to clean, maintain and fill these things they suck major ass.
They dont taste as good, a total bitch to clean, and they constantly break.

>>6282079

do they have to be filled constantly as well? i always thought with all those flavors they cant hold very much of each type of syrup compared to your typical machine.

>>6282121
eh not really.
Essentially you have two types of syrup, flavored syrup which are these little 2-5 pound boxes that go in the bottom half of the machine, and HFCS which come in ~50 pound bag-in-a-box that you have a back room or nearby cabinet for.
We did a box or two of HFCS every night, and maybe 6 or 7 flavors, but we had 6 machines and are one of the busiest theaters in the US

>>6281579
I always get this too, it's wonderful.

Pibb cherry vanilla

>>6281908
One tenth of an average cup of coffee? That's strange.


VANILLA ROOT BEER/GINGER ALE OR GO HOME

>>6282175
Hello fellow theater bro.

>>6282281
Maybe he's a Mormon, and doesn't know any better.

>>6281021

Peach Sprite erryday

>>6282286
Heh, i actually dont work there anymore. Only took 5 years

>>6282299
Same. But we are still connected for life, you and me.

Six years at a dollar theater. Good times.

>>6282308
oh definitely.

good times. Regal or AMC?

>>6282316
Neither. An independent chain. Six theaters nationwide. Owned by some greedy shit that used to be CFO of Carmike.

>>6282322
ooh, that must of been a little more fun. I was at a pretty strict Regal

>>6282370
Yeah I figured I would hate working at a big theater. We only had five screens.

>>6282429
20 and an Imax. Fridays and Saturdays were vile

>>6281091
cherry sprite & vanilla sprite

>>6281021
Peach Fanta

Yeah nigga I said it.

I've only seen them in a casino. Anything I get tastes like shit. Can they brix it better or no? And touch screens? Fuck you and that. It's a nice idea, but executed horribly.

>>6281077
Only place I've ever seen them is one a couple AMC theaters around here. Never seen them anywhere else.

This is the dumbest invention in the food industry I've ever seen. Touch screen barely works, much more expensive for the proprietor to run because of the "syrup cartridges" which, just like print cartridges say they're empty wit 25% left and refuse to work.

I did watch a BK employee key in the pass code which is done through a sequence of bubbles on the screen after selecting "water". touch screen was so bad he had to keep trying to put the combo in so I have it memorized.

>>6281381
mah nigga. i used to work at wendy's and we finally got this machine and i drank this shit all day every day. tastes like a creamsicle.

in retrospect i'm kinda glad i don't work there anymore because i probably cut out a million grams of sugar a day.

>>6282449
>only 20
>big

Lel the theater I worked at had 30 screens. And we would fill that sucker up whenever the newest Tyler Perry movie came out. Lines into the parking lot for tickets, then another line starting at ticket window just to get in door, then another line right after that for concessions. Then yet another line to get in the door of the theater. Lines for the bathroom. Lines to get in fucking line. Basically all the hallways were completely filled to the brim with black people standing around at all times. At a certain point you stop even trying to work fast because whats the fucking point?

HI-C ORANGE VANILLA OR GTFOOOOO WITH YO BITCH ASS

>>6282512
i mean even the small screens were 300 seaters

>>6282512
Atlanta?

I like Peach Fanta.

>>6282554
Dallas

>>6281579
This is the most patrician response image I have, but regardless, this is the correct answer.

>>6282504
they updated the firmware, now it has a new display and no more bubbles to guide you. There's still a way to get to the "tech screen" but i'm not telling you cause i'm sick of people fucking with my machine.

>>6282449
Goddamn. I can imagine. Ours were too, along with any days kids were off school. Being able to distract six kids for a few hours for $7 is pretty enticing I guess.

>>6282554
My dollar theater was in metro Atlanta, actually. A bit North of the city.

Every time I go to Firehouse Subs, I get a Vanilla Lemon-Lime Coke Zero.
Absolutely fantastic!

>>6282710
Go back to >>/k/ dr8co.

West Houston isn't central Texas.

Raspberry Diet Coke is so fucking good that I started buying fountain drinks again just to get it.

>>6282759
I'm not DR8CO, I've been to his ranch, and I'm in North Houston.

>>6281021
>Fanime 2014
>long ass line at food place down the street
>fucking ONE of these machines
>constant line for the machine and I just wanted water with my meal

>>6281026
The data is the main reason these machines exist, not the flavor choices for the customer's satisfaction. That is an ancillary benefit.

>>6282819
1. That's what you get for going to an anime convention.
2. I have never been to a convention of any sort where there was only one source of water. Being too stupid to find water is nature's way of telling you that you aren't fit to breed. Just go feed yourself to a bear or something.

>>6281936
I'm glad you think I work for them but nope, I'm just a guy who had a chance to go to the meeting. There was a large group of media hovering around Warren Buffett. I didn't even see him because of those circle jerks.

Honestly, I hate the machines. Especially at restaurants that have only one or movie theaters where things get pretty messy, pretty quick.


>>6281962

No, but I did spend some time in Macomb. As far as Peoria, educate urself be4 u wreck urself. I did check out Bradly when I was applying for schools but they didn't care for my low math scores and that was actually just fine by me in retrospect.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_it_play_in_Peoria%3F

>>6282840
It was at a pizza joint.
I had superior gatorade but I wanted water and I found it although with a wait.

The point stands that if there's one machine and say 3 people, one person could hold up the line.

Ha drinking pleb tier coke.

Pepsi or bust

>>6282903
>he went to western
>couldn't even graduate from western
lol

>>6283139

Nope. Went to Western. Spent 2 years there. graduated from Grad School and moved on. It was just a stopping point in the road to life. Other than the library, the campus itself was rather dreary and the housing was 3rd world at best.

Actually since this is /ck/ while macomb is nothing special and lacks any fine dining places of note, it does have quite a few good "joints" for quick places to eat.

pic related. it's the shithole I stayed in. I still suffer occasional bouts of ptsd from my experiences there.

>>6281936
Who the fuck would datamine on a chan you fucking tinfoil? Jesus Christ.

Official Top 3 Coke Freestyle Flavors
1: Cherry Mello Yello
2: Cherry Dr Pepper
3: Cherry Coke

>>6281021
Peach Fanta is the only thing I care about in those. I will never get anything else when one of those machines is set up in a fast food place. I only eat fast food maybe once or twice a month though.

>>6281966
We have them in Alabama.

>>6281495
if you can bring yourself to drinking diet barq's, that's caffeine free. mmm, vanilla diet barq's.

rename it the HFC dispensary

>>6282240
why the fuck would anyone ever /pibb/ when they can /dr pepper/?

>>6281021
I used to be the guy who took care of my uni's 2. Holy shit do they get filthy. Also 3 bubbles around the main logo of a selection will get you into the debug menu, top left right. Our default password for staff use was pressing the 9 key until the field was full.

And sadly I didn't think of fucking with the rfid codes until I got a real job, so I never got to see if you could trick it into pouring the wrong thing. (Every flavor is vanilla suck a dick).

>>6281021
Why wouldn't they just make it 5x5 rows.
WHY WOULDN'T THEY JUST MAKE IT 5x5 ROWS.

>>6283995
THERE ARE FOUR ROWS

>>6283995
it's in windscreen

ANY of the seagrim flavors.

>>6286747
YOU FIXED 4CHAN GOOD WORK M8

>>6283995
...Because there are 24 flavors. You fucking child.

>>6286767
Go back and count the second row from the top again.

>>6285319
You are strong, human.

>>6283995
Because of where Coke ended up on the screen.

>>6286773
they could achieve the same effect with a 5x5 grid

>>6286778
>they could achieve the same effect with a 5x5 grid
And have Coke smack dab in the middle? Not really.

>>6281077

They do, i live in columbus, ohio and we have them in lots of places

>>6286797
they could either put it in the middle, or put in the third column, second row, which would result in a similar placement, without it looking fucking retarded

>>6286832
But you notice that it looks off, so your eyes wander to that particular row.

>>6286839
it triggers my autism, regardless.

>>6282819

To be fair, any business near fanime has a line out the ass. Even getting boba takes like 10+ minutes. I think the machine itself is fine, its just people don't know how to handle so many choices the first time they see them and take years to pick something.

>>6281021
>no coke vanilla

FUCK YOU

>>6282064
He's right though

>>6281021
vanilla cherry dr pepper

>>6281021

Peach (whatever the sparkling water is called).

>>6282806

Southwest corner of the Loop here.

>>6281021
Had a drink from a slightly different model today. It had only 4 main screen options - All drinks, Colas, Fruit Drinks, and Waters/Teas. I ended up getting a Cherry Vanilla Mr. Pibb, and it was glorious.

>>6281579
I hear the Grape Mellow Yellow is pretty boss. I don't really like citrus based drinks, though (unless it's actual real lemonade) so I've never tried those combos.

vanilla orange hiC

>>6281081
Same. Everything tastes the same gross taste.

>>6289072
>Tap Coke
>Tap Vanilla/Cherry/Raspberry/Lime button in Coke submenu

I work at Wendy's with 2 freestyles. I have tried nearly every flavor in the machine, including the few new ones in the recent update.

POWER RANKINGS
1. Peach Fanta
2. Vanilla Coke
3. Lemon-Lime Lemonade
4. Fizzy Very Berry Glaceau Fruitwater
5. Orange Vanilla Hi-C
6+ WHO FUCKING CARES

>>6283184
That accommodation looks like what working-class people live in near London, gross

Moe's burritos has a custom flavor in their machines. It's some sort of peach vanilla fanta-like drink. It's pretty damn good, can't beat that 5 dollar burrito too.

>>6289148
This one is missing Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper

Got one at work and I don't care much for it.
Barq's with Vanilla + Vanilla Hi-C is best.

>>6281962
Bloomington Indiana here. Your Bloomington a shit.

>>6281021
Strawberry Minute Maid 100%

>>6290095
>Machine owned by Coca Cola
>implying they would promote Dr. Pepper-Snapple products in advertising literature

>>6281081
>>6289088
There's more than one nozzle you fucktard.

Crouch down and look up at it.

>>6281021

>pibbwater all day every day