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swiss chalet harveys went to pepsi why?

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#1 ·
grrrrrrrrrr

swiss chalet / harveys changed from coke to pepsi products!

Now I have to get a 7up with my damn chicken pepsi bleh!

dumb move if you ask me I wonder how many compliants they are getting?

anyone know if the rest of the cara foods resturants did this as well?

swiss chalet if you want to add a drink to your menu do me a favour and get a milk shake already I mean ya got ice cream sundaes comming out the back for lil/big kids all the time

shoe and the bring back coke campain
 
#6 ·
Pepsi in Newfoundland

Newfoundlanders are still officially running a boycott of Coke products since the 90s.

Why? Because coke closed up a bottling/canning facility here and the Pepsi facility run by Browning Harvey is unionized. If someone brings a coke product to a union event they get slapped up the side of the head prett quick and told not to do it again.

So when I order a rum and coke, lot's of times bar owners will say, "It's Pepsi, that okay?" And I'm like, "Damn, right it is."


I think Quebecois favour pepsi over coke as well. But one poster was right in saying that both of 'em are pretty nasty for you.
 
#9 ·
Finally, I can get a decent drink at Swiss Chalet or Harvey's!
 
#10 ·
I'm with you Vinnie Cappuccino. Give me a cappuccino anytime. Did it every occur to you that Coke and Pepsi might actually be the same company? I'm not saying it is - just something that I've wondered about. Both are equally bad for you and even if they weren't, I'm not interested in supporting such huge corporations.
 
#11 ·
I find it kinda funny that basically the #1 and 2 BOTTLED drinks get so much flack here.

If no one thinks its good for you whos buying the stuff? why is it served at every resturant, convience store and gas station? sold at every grocery store ( has its own isle and pyramids of it usually on display up front)

as far as being good or bad for ya Im pretty sure we all dont drink pop all day long 1 after another or maybe we do?

shoe
 
#12 ·
I'm waiting for places to start offering me Fresca! :) I'm not holding my breath.

As for Pepsi/Coke... it doesn't matter to me. As long as they have iced tea, I'm happy. I VERY rarely drink regular pop. I do however like diet Coke with lime. Tasty, and not quite as bad for you.

As to this:
If no one thinks its good for you whos buying the stuff? why is it served at every resturant, convience store and gas station? sold at every grocery store ( has its own isle and pyramids of it usually on display up front)
Am I the only one who noticed a huge increase in non-pop offerings in the past 1-2 years? McD has Nestea and Fruitopia, Wendy's has Lipton and Lemonade, most places now have a couple of different choices. Perhaps people are wising up?

A7
 
#13 ·
It's probably because most of them are Coffee or Tea drinkers.

I never liked the taste of Coffee so I stayed with Pepsi to get my caffeine fix. It would explain why Tim's is so busy these days.
 
#15 ·
Well, shoe, if you're still eating Cara foods products and still purchasing a drink with that, I don't think it'll make a bit of difference how much you complain. Somehow, I have a hunch that whatever increase in profit margin on the pop they got when Pepsi got them to switch more than compensates for the extra complaint calls they get... if any.

A quick look at Cara's website shows they their restaurants (the ones that serve pop: Swiss Chalet, Harvey's, Milestones, Kelsey's, Outback, Montana's) serve over 120,000,000 people per year. Let's say 85% of those patrons buy a pop. That's 102,000,000 pops sold per year. Assume a 1 cent difference in profit.

$102,000,000 x $0.01 = $1,020,000

For a million bucks, you afford a lot of complaints about pop from people who continue to buy it. :)
 
#16 ·
a7mc said:
I do however like diet Coke with lime. Tasty, and not quite as bad for you.
Not quite as bad for you?!!!! Have you heard of Aspertame and what it does to your brain? You're better off with the sugar. Also, just because something is offered to you, i.e. on supermarket aisles, doesn't mean you have to drink it. I don't care what adults do to themselves but I think they should think about what they're putting in their kids' bodies.
 
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