Free refills?

[kirbsam]

They offer different sizes because not everyone eats inside the restaurant and not everyone wants to bother with refills.

I think it is pretty obvious that refills are free.

exactly my thoughts and everyone else i have ever known.

 

[ORMom2Four]

One of my fav quotes is from Joy on My Name is Earl (at a wedding reception?)

"They have free refills, so I got you all smalls. It's the same as a large, just a lil' more walkin'

 

[MM27]

If the place didn't want you to refill your cup, they wouldn't put the machines out in a place where customers could access them. If it was assumed that you weren't going to refill, they would put the milkshake machines out there too and trust everyone to just help themselves to one cup.

I don't eat a lot of fast food, but if a larger cup is only a few cents more, I would go with the bigger size for convenience. When I go on a road trip and stop at a fast food place, I will refill before I leave to get back in the car.

 

[Mandychelle79]

Most of the FF rest around here have a sign posted that says: Refills are limited to the visit in which they were purchased.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Pre diabetes - and no doubt a partial cause of my diabetes - I drank sweet tea.... tons of sweet tea. Well, one time I was at a place in SC that said "free refills". I honestly think I drank close to a gallon of sweet tea that day.

Up here, in PA, the sweet tea never tastes as good as it does in the south, IMO, so I never would have done that here.

 

[Papa Deuce]

Yep. EVERY FF joint in NC is free with the refills. Even the ones without a drink styation (Wendy's, Chik-Fil-A). You bring your cup back to the counter and they will refill your cup FOR you for free.

The thing that amused me most was that at sit down restaurants in NC, most locals will ask for a "to-go" cup of their beverage and will receive a free plastic cup of Coke oir whatever to take home!

Really? I will try this at my local Chic - Fil - A.... I absolutely love their diet lemonade.

 

[Miss Park Avenue]

I used to work at McDonalds while in HS and they are in fact free. Even if they do not have the refill station aval. to customers, the employee at the counter is to refill it behind the counter. They only thing they are not suppose to do is touch your lid. They are trained to ask you to remove it as to not cross contaminate

This is true. I know this because my super old McDonalds didn't have self-serve drink stations. And we always took our drinks to the counter (lifting off the lid ourselves) and handing it to the person behind the counter. Now it's been remodeled and we have drink stations.

And for the record, I always get a medium. That lasts me through lunch, and then I'd get a refill "for the road".

 

[HunnyPots]

Whether or not they have self serve drink stations, all fast food restaurants in our area offer free refills. At Chic Fil A, the managers even walk from table to table asking if you'd like your drink refilled!

 

[Mickey's Minion]

Most of the FF rest around here have a sign posted that says: Refills are limited to the visit in which they were purchased.

You mean you can't bring last year's cup to refill?

Geez, how Disney of them

 

[browneyes106]

If it's a self serve drink station I almost always get refills.

 

[flipturngirl]

If it as a place with a fill your own cup I assume free refills.. if they do not have a thing for you to get your own drink I assume no free refills unless it is posted somewhere..

I work at a place where refills are not free.. .the drinks are expensive.. customers always ask if it is free refills.. we say no they get mad.. leave and then come back the next week and do it again..

 

[AKL_Megs]

I always order a medium... McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell... wherever. I usually fill up before my meal, and then fill up again before I leave to have more in the car for the ride home, or wherever I am going.

 

[NHdisneylover]

self serve drink station = free refills (even here in Germany and we are starting to get some)

As others have said--many, MANY fast food places in the U.S. provide free refills if you ask even if there is not a self service station (we did this at Wendy's all the time in NH). A few places here in Germany are adding this but teh have signs to tell you they will (usually one sign--I look for it)

I always order the size cup I normally would (typically medium US sized which is a large in Europe for me and small for the kids). I like to refill as I am leaving to take with me and want a decent amount when I do.

 

[KAMLEM]

They offer different sizes because not everyone eats inside the restaurant and not everyone wants to bother with refills.

I think it is pretty obvious that refills are free.

You may think it's pretty obvious, but it's not always true. There is one McDonald's around here with a sign that says you must pay for refills and another one where we asked and were told that they are not free. Maybe it has something to do with the franchise but this has been my experience. I also worked at Wendy's growing up and nobody ever asked for a refill. If they wanted another drink they paid for it.

 

[Banzai]

I would assume at a fill your own that it was free refills if there is a place to dine provided (McDonalds, Wendys, ect) but at a restaraunt, I would assume no free refills unless stated.

 

[MichelleinMaine]

I assume if a place does not offer self service free refills, they wouldn't have a self service station. (Barring any sort of sign, though I think it's odd to have the station with an honor system refill price. I respect it, but you know there are some who don't. How is that fair?)

 

[Straitlover]

The McD's I go to now (on the rare occasion I do!) have free refills. Now when *I* was in HS and worked at McD's (1981 ), refills were not free. In fact the cups were counted by the mgr on duty at the end of the night. If you wasted a cup during the day, you were supposed to throw it in the special waste bucket (alos any prepared food that was thrown out). They had to verify the cup usage for the day (beginning inventory plus drinks sold minus waster cups shoud eqal the ending inventory at closing). I think there was a spot for this on their closing reports. Same goes when I worked at BK ('82-'83).

 

[scrapquilter]

if I am somewhere that has self-serve soda, I assume that it is free refills unless there is a sign stating otherwise. And yes, I normally buy the smallest size (even if it isn't free refills).

 

[ajk912]

Really? I will try this at my local Chic - Fil - A.... I absolutely love their diet lemonade.

At my local CFA the lemonades are limited to ONE free refill. Depending on who is working they will mark your cup with a sharpie to show that you already had your free refill.

 

[JR6ooo4]

free refills in store. I don't think it is right for the family to load up a full cup each on the way out the door.

But lately, I will not take any refills. because nothing they have at those dispensers is any good for me in large proportions. Maybe the water. not the ice for sure....

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