I am curious to find out what kind of arrangement that most restaurants
do with the soft drink business.
If you can buy a can of coke or pepsi for the same price as a 2 litre
bottle of no name soft drinks at the super market, I would assume that
coke and pepsi must be making a lot of profit. How is the production of
these soft drink made in the bottling plants? Are they generally
automated? and with little interference from people or labors? I mean
whether the soft drink production is labor intensive or not.
I ask this question, as I notice that at the fast food places (BK or
McD), when they have daily special meals, they discount the food, but
the soft drink prices stay the same. Which means the labor intensive
cost of doing business... making the burgers, or the sandwich, or
frying the chicken and fries are reduced so much, but the cost of the
soft drink stays the same. Example... on a McD special meal, the
hamburger may be discounted by more than 50%, but the price of the soft
drink is the same. I thought the cost of soft drink should be so cheap,
that they can afford to chop down the price.
What about the deal in which you can drink what you want? Do stores or
restaurant pay a certain fee, and it is not by the number of cups they
sell?
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