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A 5 gallon bag o syrup costs around 50 - $100 depending on volume discounts and what part of the US. At a 5 to 1 ratio, that’s 30 gallons per bag. Assuming each cup is 12oz (they do put in a lot of ice usually) that’s 320 servings (assuming no spillage).

So it costs McDonalds or similar 15 - 30 cents per soda they sell in soda costs, and 7 cents for the cup. So assuming it’s still a dollar, that’s between 78 to 63% profit based on volume discount the specific place has with coca cola. So not really 100% profit, but still high. And no the cup doesn’t cost more, if that were ever true it was for a brief moment in history.

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skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

As a side note fucking Googles LLM make this type of research hard by spitting fake info at you.

The web in general is fucked, since most sites less than 3 years old are now entirely written by AI. :(

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- Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Its just infuriating, if I were worse at math or hadn’t been in the industry before I would have come up with an answer that was not even close to correct.
  
  Also does boolean logic not work on searches anymore?
  
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  - skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Haven’t noticed. Are you using the right syntax? I’m not sure if ‘AND’, ‘OR’ have to be capitalized or what ahrefs.com/…/google-advanced-search-operators/
    
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
1/5 syrup is a lot of syrup, and doesn’t track with Italian-style sodas.

I have heard that brand name syrups are often charged extra for a patent fee or something, much like the studios overcharging movie theaters since the 90s / aughts, forcing them to run entirely on concessions.

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- Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  But 5 to 1 part isn’t 1/5 it’s 1/6 isn’t it? I dont drink a lot of soda, but used to be on the sales side in a prior life. So I am going off what the internet says on mixing. I assume because some syrup brands/packs have significantly different caloric counts that the ratio isn’t the same brand to brand or store to store.
  
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  - uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    10 to 1 would be a bit much. 5 to 1 indicates the syrup is already thinned out, which is a possibility if the denser syrup doesn’t mix readily with the fizzy without stirring.
    
    But then, I’d figure there was purchase-density syrup, and then pre-make which is ready to dispense with fizz water, and a clerk is tasked with diluting one to make the other.
    
    That’s the way it’d be if I were writing a fast food sim.
    
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