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Bring back the 99 cent cheesy double beef burrito (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

drink alone would be $2.45

which is, itself, absolutely ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Especially saying that Pepsi owns the brand.

I was buying 5 gallon syrup boxes from restaurant supply stores and making soda with my SodaStream. A good day I could approach the price of a sale 2 liter bottle. Assuming the cups lids and straws aren't free, The ice is nearly free, The carbonation is relatively cheap. They're probably making at least two full dollars profit per cup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Add in the overhead:

  • Refrigeration (electricity or otherwise)
  • Labor ($7.25+; $15+ in some areas)
  • Insurance (In case you get sick from the soda, and you sue them)
  • Sanitation (outside contractor, with their materials, labor, and markups)
  • Maintenance (machine repairs, etc)

I wish I could agree they were making that much money. But when you include all the costs that they have to run just the soda machine, with all the varieties of soda that they have, they're not clearing that much profit per cup.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

When I worked at Roy Rogers in the '90s, our large cups cost us 25 cents with product. (On paper) They were $1.37 retail.

Accounting for inflation, $1.37 becomes $2.65.

That tracks squarely for a 48 cent cup If all of the things were equal.

I'm sure that number didn't include labor but at least we can see that things haven't really slid in fast food more than they were in the '90s. At least for this one item.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fast food restaurants pay less than a penny per ounce for soda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Absolutely not true. Definitely not for Coke or Pepsi anyway. That wasn't even true in the '90s. Everybody's buying their crap from US foods and Sysco, and the bibs just aren't that cheap.