Talk:Soda fountain

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When it states the date of "supersession" so definitely it leads one to question it. Are there really no soda fountains left? I doubt it. --Daniel C. Boyer 18:32, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

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What is it?
As a non-American, I have difficulty figuring out what a "soda fountain" actually is from reading this article. Surely it can't just be the drink dispensing machine that they squirt a Coke out of whenever I go to McDonalds, as indicated by the second picture in the article?

In one of Bill Bryson's books, where he talks about his childhood memories from the 1950s, he talks about sitting on a twirly stool at a marble-topped counter at which soda was served to him - that is what he described as a soda fountain. 217.155.20.163 19:21, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Right, a "soda fountain" can mean both the machine that makes sodas and an establishment that sells sodas. The article does say this, although suggestions about how it can be made clearer are welcome. &mdash; Chowbok  ☠  18:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

So it's something that makes fizzy drinks; a fizzy drinks machine. Calling it a "dispenser" is a bit misleading. 78.146.89.18 (talk) 15:17, 6 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Most people would consider a soda fountain to be an establishment, often part of a larger business like a drug store, with a counter that people sit at on stools (and/or possibly with tables and chairs) with a server or servers behind the counter making sodas (flavored carbonated drinks) with or without ice cream and a variety of other ice cream based dishes (floats, sundaes, etc.). A lunch counter would be similar but the workers behind the counter would principally prepare and/or serve other foods (burgers, etc.), although a soda fountain might also serve such foods as well. Calling any simple dispenser of sodas a soda fountain is, at best, marketing hype by the machines' manufacturers trying to glorify their product by making the association to a true soda fountain. Most people would refer to it as a dispenser, drink machine, etc. and not a soda fountain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.90 (talk) 10:24, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Filters?
Do these things usually filter the water? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.39.212.101 (talk) 19:21, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

More clarity needed
As mentioned above by another editor, this article is unclear. So what exactly is a soda fountain? This is an American term. It is unknown elsewhere yet this article doesn't properly tell us that it is simply a drinks dispenser. That's right, isn't it?--ЗAНИA talk talk] 08:12, 8 September 2012 (UTC)