As a kid or teen, did you ever get a “soda suicide” at a self-serve fountain by mixing all the available flavors? Maybe you called it swamp water . . . a graveyard . . . sewage . . . a pop bomb . . . or a hurricane? Well, that won’t be possible in the future.

McDonald’s is eliminating their self-serve soda fountains. Their employees will fill all cups in the future.

TO be clear, they are not eliminating free refills. You will just have to have an employee at the counter fill your cup. They believe this will help cut back on theft of their product. They also feel in this post-COVID world it will be more hygienic for their customers.

They feel this won’t affect the customers really that much since fewer people are eating inside restaurants. More people are ordering for pick-up through the app or for delivery through a third-party service. That means employees are already filling most of the cups as they do for orders in the drive-thru.

You’ve still got some time to re-live your youth. The change will happen slowly, over the next 10 years as restaurants are updated.

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By: Buck Stevens