Why don't restaurants ever have root beer in their fountains?

Question

Anyone else ever notice that when the kids ask for root beer at a restaurant they wind up getting it in a can or a bottle instead of a glass like regular soda? So why is it that resturaunts have most other kinds of soda in their soda guns but usually not root beer?

Answer 1

Because root beer is not the seller it once was. There are some restaurants that still have it but they are few and far between.Wendy's now offers a root beer float using the frosty ice cream so they would have root beer.

Answer 2

I suppose it is because Root Beer does not get ordered as much but this is not bad. Since most will eiter have Pepsi products ( Mug Root Beer ) or Coca Cola ( Fanta Root Beer ). it's better to get the bottle anyway. I would much rather have a Frosty or IBC Root Beer anyway. Besides for younger kids it makes them feel like they get something special. I know one place that serves A&W in a bottle because the owner believes it is better. It is also seved in a frosted mug

Answer 3

Not true at all; I've eaten at hundreds and hundreds of different restaurants in 45 of the 50 states and can think of very few that don't have root beer . . . or if not root beer, birch beer, which is even better! . . . in their soda fountains.

Answer 4

I've worked in three restaurants and they've all had root beer.

Answer 5

I think they just go with what is popular for the fountains. What I hate is that they only have either coke or pepsi, but never both.

Answer 6

We have rootbeer, but is the soda that we sell the least amount of.

Answer 7

I think is up to the owner, cause I worked in a rest. that had r.b.

Answer 8

Not as popular as other drinks.