The Coca Cola "Freestyle" Machines suck

    


    The Freestyle Coke machines suck.  They're the ones where you can mix the different additives into your soda.  Sounds good, poorly implemented:


  • The flavors are yuck:  Instead of tasting a coke or a Root Beer, you get to taste a combination of everyone else's soda.  Purging the nozzle with water before your soda helps, but it still doesn't reduce the cross contamination flavor

  • They create soda traffic lineups:  Instead of 5-10 dispensing nozzles, the restaurant only has one.  Thus everyone has to wait for their turn, often behind someone who takes five minutes just to try and navigate the GUI and then make a selection while being bombarded with a choice of additives

  • Nasty Screen:  Don't really want to put my fingers on the communal screen right before I eat my food