Continued from the old forum...
It took them a few years, but those FREESTYLE machines made their inroads into Europe. It looks like Burger King is deploying them into all new franchises. Five Guys, who is massively expanding in mainland Europe, even despite the pandemic is deploying them into every one of their locations.
Due to lack of alternatives I ended up at a Burger King drive-in lately, this location used to have "normal Coke" in the past, as in like seven or so years ago. When I took a sip of my coke I thought something had gone bad. Maybe they served me "Light" (the European version of Diet) or "Zero"? Even though it really tasted like none of those. So I went back to complain. They gave me another one, which they claimed, came from another machine. The result was the same. It's not even that the stuff didn't taste like Coke, the stuff just tasted awful, like someone had mixed some molten plastic into it...
As a rare exception, they let me in through the side door (the location was still take-out only), just to show me that there was nothing odd with the machine. To my "surprise", I realized that those machines were those dreaded FREESTYLE machines, to which they recently had switched.
I still can't believe why Coca Cola can commit to shipping such a product and still put their brand on it. It tastes nothing like Coke, it doesn't even taste like a Cola. Most rip-off cola products you can buy at the local grocery store do a better job in imitating Coca Cola than this "genuine" Coca Cola product does...
It took them a few years, but those FREESTYLE machines made their inroads into Europe. It looks like Burger King is deploying them into all new franchises. Five Guys, who is massively expanding in mainland Europe, even despite the pandemic is deploying them into every one of their locations.
Due to lack of alternatives I ended up at a Burger King drive-in lately, this location used to have "normal Coke" in the past, as in like seven or so years ago. When I took a sip of my coke I thought something had gone bad. Maybe they served me "Light" (the European version of Diet) or "Zero"? Even though it really tasted like none of those. So I went back to complain. They gave me another one, which they claimed, came from another machine. The result was the same. It's not even that the stuff didn't taste like Coke, the stuff just tasted awful, like someone had mixed some molten plastic into it...
As a rare exception, they let me in through the side door (the location was still take-out only), just to show me that there was nothing odd with the machine. To my "surprise", I realized that those machines were those dreaded FREESTYLE machines, to which they recently had switched.
I still can't believe why Coca Cola can commit to shipping such a product and still put their brand on it. It tastes nothing like Coke, it doesn't even taste like a Cola. Most rip-off cola products you can buy at the local grocery store do a better job in imitating Coca Cola than this "genuine" Coca Cola product does...
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