How do those drink/soda/pop dispensers found at Restaurants work?!
How do those drink/soda/pop dispensers found at Restaurants work?
Everyone knows the large machine that allows people with a cup to press a lever and their beverage comes out. Does anyone know how those actually work? A mcdonalds would recieve customers throughout the day, and yet they never seem to run out of the drinks. Does each restaurant have a HUGE tank for each of the different beverages or something??
Answers:
In most restaurants, the syrup and carbonated water are not mixed until the lever is pressed and the drink is dispensed. Many restaurants will have a large machine that takes in water and carbonates it, I'm sure, however, that many restaurants have different methods of making or storing carbonated water. Then, there are boxed bags of syrup for each of the drinks. These are just the syrup, not the soft drink themselves. A tube is attached to the end of the bag syrup that leads to the fountain. Also, another tube is attached to the carbonated water. Like I said, these are mixed when the lever or button is actually pushed. The bags do need to be replaced fairly often. It's very easy to tell when darker or colored drinks like Dr. Pepper, Coke and Fanta are out of syrup, as the fountain only dispenses a clear liquid. Clear drinks like Sprite are a bit harder to tell when they are empty, though machines make a clicky sound when those drinks have run out.
Source(s):
3 years working concessions at a movie theater.
The dispensers have syrup containers in the back room and are mixed with soda water. It all done behind closed walls.
Actually, yes there are tanks,but not huge in enormous. The soda, pop, cold drink, whichever part of the country you use the term. Just like a keg of beer, there is a keg of drink for each flavor. It is attached to tube and pump inside the stand where they are located and each time you depress the lever, the pump release the drink. After a calculated time or number of uses the restaurant knows when to change the tanks. Maybe this explains why if you ever tried to get a drink from soda fountain station it either taste like water, or it acutally comes out as water. It time to change the tank/ keg of drink.
the syrup bag located in the backroom with a hose connected to soda machine i know it because i work in the fastfood too