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C-zom posted...

They're on the way out. They're prohibitively expensive, require calling a specialist technician to even update the software, get dirty as all hell and employees never bother changing/calibrating them because they're complicated pains in the ass. Source: Worked in two places that used them.

My state has sugar tax, but still. A regular "box" of syrup for your average soda gun/bar gun costs $120-$200 for just one soda. Retooling a Freestyle machine to stock capacity costs like 3k and they're quarter sized syrup boxes.

Yeah, I already find a few that are either out of service entirely or just have the basics stocked. I wouldnt be surprised if 50 years from now they will unearth one of those curiosities of the early 21st century in some elderly zoomers storage shed and itll be on the future equivalent of one of those History Channel picker shows.