Posted on 10/18/2018 8:30:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you’ve ever gone out of your way to get to a McDonald’s just to satisfy a craving for their tongue-tingling Coca-Cola, you know how special the fast food giant’s soda is.
The Coca-Cola from McDonald’s manages to taste crisper, sharper, even fresher than the same drink from other fast-food restaurants. It’s almost as if they make the Coke taste better so you’ll come in for a “medium Coke, please” and decide, “sure, I’ll take a medium fry.” (Who among us hasn’t?)
Truth is, the Coke from McDonald’s isn’t magic. They just use really smart storage tactics and clever drink-mixing strategies to make their Coca-Cola refreshments stand out among the many purveyors of pop.
Here, a step-by-step guide to understanding why McDonald’s Coke is so special:
Special Storage
McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have had a unique relationship since Ray Kroc had the dream to expand the little hamburger joint into a fast-food goliath. He asked Coca-Cola to join him on the adventure, and they agreed. The two have been inseparable since.
It’s no wonder then that Coca-Cola has helped McDonald’s devise special storage techniques that make their soda so distinct (techniques that no one else uses, mind you).
While most restaurants have their soda syrup delivered to them in plastic bags, McDonald’s Coca-Cola syrup is stored in stainless steel tanks. This preserves the syrup’s flavor and protects it from temperature, light, and air, all things that can degrade the flavor quickly. The stuff in the bags doesn’t stand a chance.
Consistent Water Filtration
McDonald’s operates almost 37,000 restaurants across the globe, and at each one, you can guarantee the Cokes will be almost identical....
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I don’t know about McDonald’s, but it explains somewhat why Coke always tasted different at the theaters long ago.
Interesting.
I like McDonald’s a lot.
But you’re correct about the extreme displeasure of dealing with miserable, surly employees. The closest McDonald’s to me has the worst employees including the manager. I just stopped going in.
This is on top of the endless mistakes the staff makes with orders!
How they manage to keep the place open I have no idea.
worked fast food and other places that serve fountain sodas. the biggest problem with most places is that they don’t properly clean the fountain drink dispenser. the lines that the syrup pas through needs to be flushed at the end of the say otherwise you have a problem with bacteria growing in the lines. this bacteria is not at a level that is dangerous but it does effect the flavor of what ever sugar based soft drink is being dispensed.
The difference in the food is night and day. One you will get cold food sloppily thrown together. The other you will get hot food, assembled with care. The bread will be fresh, the burger hot and the cheese melted.
The odd thing is that both have great coffee.
Good-tasting Coke doesn’t make up for a medium shake and a Big Mac for $8.00 plus tax.
Their burgers are awfull and the fries lost when they cut the beef tallo.
In the early 80s a father and son moved to my little
NorCal town along with their families from LA. They
purchased the local A&W franchise. They were hardcore
conservatives and the son became one of my close pals.
Throughout their affiliation with A&W they fought with
the corp over food quality. As everyone knows what A&W
had going for it was their very popular rootbeer. The
franchise owners had the exclusive until the Corp
started selling the RB thru markets. That killed it
for most of the franchisees including my friends. As
soon as they could they bounced A&W and changed their
name to ‘Big A’ as the family name started with A.
Financially, it was a Godsend for my friends who were
great business people who had already quit buying
burger meat from A&W. Even my fussy mom thought their
fare was the best fast food in town, Nobody in town
actually missed the A&W since the rest of the menu
was good.
Anyway, my point is....I forget but your post brought
back fond memories.
Vanilla Coke tastes similar to McDonalds Coke IMO.
The best McDonald’s I have ever been to ( and I visited a lot ) was in Greenville, South Carolina.
Everything was fresh, employees were so friendly and the place was spotless. Even the bathroom was perfectly clean.
However, ordering an iced coffee was always a humorous event. I think I was one of the only people who ever ordered one as sometimes it seemed the staff had trouble operating the machine. We’d always laugh about it.
It was a real pleasure going there.
Fond memories for me, too. Small root beers for a nickel, large for a dime. And three blocks from our place. About 1966...
"No Coke. Pepsi!"
I’ve always been a Pepsi man.
That’s in part because McDonald’s filters their water many times over to maintain consistent flavor and quality. How shall I say this......BULLSHIT! Many times over my posterior, the water is filtered through standard filters which are used by probably every other large retailer selling sodas.
In addition to pre-chilling their syrup and filtering their water through an advanced system, McDonald’s also keeps the water for their sodas incredibly cold. Insulated tubes carry water that’s stored at just above freezing from the fridge in the back of the restaurant to the fountain drink dispenser in the front. That's a new one on me, In the three restaurants I ran all were equiped with Multiplex beverage systems which used a chilled water bath to supply the cold water as well as the low temperature require to carbonate it, and none of it went through the walk-in. https://mcd.welbilt.us/Brands/Multiplex
The temperature of the water is also optimized for peak carbon dioxide (CO2) levels. Indeed, CO2 doesn’t escape as easily from really cold liquids, Let's chalk this up to no shit Sherlock, it's called basic beverage science and why when the chillers are down you get warm flat beverages where ever you are!
And don't even get me started on the straw bullshit, the straws are round, measured in their diameter, not wideness, and are the diameter they are so you can suck the, what used to be thick tasty shakes through them and had nothing to do with the sodas.
Okay, I ranted enough, it pisses me off when people make shit up about something they have no real knowledge of.
I can taste the aluminum in a soda pop. I drink pop from the 16.9oz plastic bottles. Not as good as glass. The larger 1 liet plastic bottles are flat tasting.
I remember cokes and other sodas when they tasted good but that was a long time ago when they came in glass bottles and used sugar and not high fructose fake sugar.
And the apple pies fried in tallow!
We still deliver Coke in tanks. But most customers uses Bag-In-A-Box. It’s more convenient.
I hear ya!
If you make some off-the-shelf frozen-food-aisle french fries and fry ‘em up, drain and let ‘em cool on paper towels, salt ‘em and then bake ‘em hot again…they’re a reasonable facsimile of McDonald’s fries.
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