Why is dr pepper available at restaurants that only serve Pepsi products and restaurants that only serve Coke?

Question

WHO MAKES DR PEPPER? I THOUGHT IT WAS MADE BY COKE.

Answer 1

Dr. Pepper is a subsidiary of Cadbury-Schweppes. It is sold under license by either Coke, Pepsi, or any rival bottling companies. These companies pay Dr. Pepper royalties in order to use their product. Here, in Arizona, Dr. Pepper is usually sold as a "Coke" product, especially in Coke machines. In other states, Dr. Pepper can be sold as a "Pepsi" product.

That's just weird. Pepsi needs to have its own Dr.-type soda, and Coke needs to sell more of it's Mr. Pibb!

Answer 2

Not an answer byt some trivia...
It is notable that Dr Pepper almost became a Coca-Cola brand in the mid-to-late 1980s. Dr Pepper became insolvent in the early 1980s, prompting an investment group to take the company private. Several years later, Coca-Cola attempted to acquire Dr Pepper, but was blocked from doing so by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Around the same time period, Seven Up was acquired from Phillip Morris by the same investment company that bailed out Dr Pepper. Upon the failure of the Coca-Cola merger, Dr Pepper and Seven Up merged (creating Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc., or DPSU), giving up international branding rights in the process. After the DPSU merger, Coca-Cola obtained most non-U.S. rights to the Dr Pepper name (with PepsiCo taking the Seven Up rights).

Distribution
In the United States, Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages (CSAB) does not have a complete network of bottlers and distributors, so the drink is sometimes bottled under contract by Coca-Cola or Pepsi bottlers. Prior to the initial Cadbury Schweppes investment-turned-buyout, 30% of Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. products were produced and distributed by Pepsi bottlers, and another 30% by Coca-Cola bottlers. The remaining 40% was produced and distributed by independent bottlers (mainly consisting of pre-Dr Pepper/Seven Up-merger regional bottlers) and the Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group.

Presently, Dr Pepper is mostly reliant on the Cadbury Schweppes Bottling Group (known as Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group up to June, 2006) to bottle and distribute its products in 30+ states. Coca-Cola and Pepsi have essentially stopped bottling and distributing CSAB products in favor of in-house alternatives, although regional exceptions can be found. It is notable that Pepsi bottlers have been dropping Dr Pepper without an equivalent replacement. Previously a Pepsi bottler without a Dr Pepper franchise would typically bottle Dr. Wells, and Coke bottlers would make Mr. Pibb.

Answer 3

This is not always true. Dr. Pepper is made by Cadbury Schweppes, not Coke or Pepsi.

Answer 4

Cadbury Schweppes.

Answer 5

it's made by cadbury , a 7-up product

Answer 6

dr.pepper is a pepsi product. at one time it was on its own but now it is in the pepsi family.

Answer 7

Pepsico!

Answer 8

it is made by coke and I don't really get your question!

Answer 9

What the hall is your question dumbass proof read your ****