12mo ago

Free drink refills could be banned in Wales under Welsh government consultation

www.bbc.co.uk

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Gotta enshrine laws to protect the capitalists!
They say its about unhealthy food and drink, but why are drink refills considers a health issue to the point of requiring law? Plenty offer more than just unhealthy soda and trash like that.
Health Secretary Eluned Morgan has launched a consultation to restrict "promotions of food products high in fat, sugar and salt".
Article specifically calls out some names:
It includes a proposal to prohibit retailers from offering free drink refills, which many high street restaurants including Nando's and Five Guys offer.
Taking Five Guys for example they offer coca cola freestyle:
https://www.fiveguys.com/menu/Drinks
https://www.coca-colafreestyle.com/choices/?filter1=all%20drinks
Which offers options such as minute maid lemonaid, vitamin water, etc. with non-sugar options. This law would punish those same drinks in the name of health.
- coca cola freestyle
  The nice expensive machines standard fast food places are removing in the US. Too many freeloaders?
- I got a solution for you, and it’s free: Drink water.
  
  That's not really a solution at all. You don't order a soda with your lunch because you think "I'm so dehydrated", you order a soda because you think "This will taste nice". People are allowed to want flavor.
  
  Also, water is not free. It’s normally provided at no cost to the consumer in a restaurant, but it isn’t free.
Couldn’t you just say “10 refills included in the price of the beverage”.
I support banning customer refills, but that’s cuz they’re gross.
If you just spent the past 30 minutes applying your germs to a cup, the last thing I want you to do is go back up the soda machine and splash that shit all over the nozzles.
- You sound paranoid. You'd have to try really hard to infect a nozzle that way. Any door handle you come across is going to be so much more filthy.

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