Why Cant it be Coke and Pepsi
Dave Althoff
: On 5 Nov 1998 02:35:45 GMT, rgr...@osf1.gmu.edu (Roy E Grimm) wrote:
: >Yes...why can't it be both Coke and Pepsi? At least try it out,
: >if nobody drinks one, discontinue it, if both are used about
: >equally, then keep 'em. You'll probably do better business...
: >you won't have the people who go, "oh, you only have Coke (or Pepsi),
: >no thanks."
: >
: And when is the last time the brand of pop made you stay away from a
: certain park
: + stay away from a certain restaurant?
: Face it 99% of the folks (me included) DON'T care what kind of pop it
: is. "Yeah, give me a Jumbo "whatever-pop-you-have-on-draft""
For most establishments, I'll agree with you. I don't happen to like
Pepsi, but fortunately most places that have Pepsi also have other options
available.
But if you're gonna charge me $2 for 20 ounces (incidentally, to put that
into perspective, that's $0.10/ounce or $12.80/gallon!), it had better be
worth my while. Hell, for that kind of money it ought to be Hofbrau or
Molson. Why should I pay an exorbitant price for a product I don't even want?
The anser, of course, is "I shouldn't." Which is why over the course of
the entire season I only bought one bottle and one fountain serving of
Pepsi at Cedar Point; two bottles and two fountain servings of Coke at
PKI. And three or four servings of birch beer at Knoebel's during the PPPPP.
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decide what we wont and have them pay equal amounts to have there drinks used.
Make half of the food places coke and the other half pepsi
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And when is the last time the brand of pop made you stay away from a
certain park
+ stay away from a certain restaurant?
Face it 99% of the folks (me included) DON'T care what kind of pop it
is. "Yeah, give me a Jumbo "whatever-pop-you-have-on-draft""
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Roy E Grimm
: And when is the last time the brand of pop made you stay away from a
: certain park
: + stay away from a certain restaurant?
Well, true...and I wasn't saying that a brand of soda would keep
someone away from a certain park or restaurant (whether inside a park
or not). And, true, some people will drink whatever they have on-hand,
Coke or Pepsi. However, my point was just that some people do have a
strong preference and might not buy a soda if it's not the one they
want or like. I'm not sure how many people are like that...nor am I
sure if it would be cost-effective to the park...maybe, maybe not...
nor am I sure if Coke or Pepsi WOULD even want to share a park.
But it would be nicer for the guest...and might cause the park to get
more money.
For instance, there are times when I wanted something to drink by
PKD...so I thought I'd get a 20-oz. bottle from one of the Coke
machines (for $2). However, I didn't feel like something as "heavy"
as Coke or Diet Coke, Surge isn't so great (esp. when I'm spending
$2), and Sprite was too "light" and had no caffeine (hey, half my
blood is half blood and half caffeine..hehe). I would've liked a
Mountain Dew...but, alas, it's nowhere to be found at PKD. That
could've been an additional $2 (which probably would go to Coke
anyways...wonder how the money is shared (if at all) from those
Coke machines) spent by me. But I saved my $2.
Maybe I'm unusual...(heck, I know that I am!)... But maybe some
choice in soda would increase soda sales at theme parks (esp. on
hot summer days, when drinks sell like hot cakes). Maybe not.
-Roy E. Grimm
David H. -- REMOVE NOSPAMMERS to reply
Well, sure, it would be great to have lots of choices in everything, but
the soda industry is far more complex than you might think and involves
a LOT more than just which soda a park will sell.
I work in a restaurant that sells Pepsi. Pepsi representatives help to
maintain the fountains and fountain guns. If anything goes wrong with
any aspect of our soda delivery, they fix it. I realize that this would
only affect the non-machine sales, but who would a park call if a
fountain that sold both Pepsi and Coke went down? Pepsi isn't likely to
want to help fix the means for selling Coke, and vice versa! If there
was something wrong with the carbon dioxide delivery, which would affect
both products, who would fix it? I doubt that such a system would be
made available by either company. And would pepsi provide CO2 -- never
mind the hoses, the gun or machine, etc. for coke? Not likely!
But more importantly, soda sales to any major company (including
amusement parks, restaurant chains, fast food, movie theaters, etc)
involve a large complex legal and benefits package that involves much
more than which product gets sold. For example, when you get an
admission discount for bringing a soda can to a park, this is a
considerable part of the advertising for the park (and the soda) which
is certainly part of the contract. The soda companies probably pay for
part or all of the advertising, which brings more people to the park.
Those neat machines with coaster logos or pictures are specially
designed for the parks at some cost (probably to the soda company.)
Sometimes there are contests providing trips to the park. All of this
is part of the major deal made between the park or chain and the soda
company or distributor. The major part of this deal is the EXCLUSIVE
sales of the soda products in the park -- which is the primary reason
the soda companies provide all of these perks. After all, you might not
like Pepsi, but if you're thirsty at the park (or a restaurant, etc.)
and it's the only cola product they offer, then you're likely to buy and
drink it. And that makes you more likely to buy and drink it elsewhere.
Finally, the soda company offers a better rate to the
park/chain/restaurant/etc based on the fact that they only sell their
soda products. Even if it were possible to sell products from multiple
companies, they'd probably be even more expensive.
So think of it this way: if having Coke available means that your
favorite park doesn't get a few million in free advertising, which means
either that the park has to pay for it or that they get fewer customers
and make less money, and if that means that they can't afford that new
coaster, would it be worth it?
I'm just pointing these things out, so that people don't waste their
time complaining to the parks. Personally, I rarely drink soda, and
have minimal interest in which one I drink on the rare occasions in
which I have some.
Roy E Grimm
in the PKD map, dining and shopping guide (in other words, the folder
with the map that they give you when you enter the park!):
"Paramount's Kings Dominion is proud to be associated with the following
corporate sponsors:"
"Always Fun, Always Coca-Cola"
"When you need to quench that big thirst, Coca-Cola Classic is
ready for you at numerous locations throughout the Park. Whether
it's a delicious slice of pizza or any of the other mouth-watering
food items, Coca-Cola Classic adds refreshment. And don't forget
to take a ride on the Log Flume sponsored by Coca-Cola, located in
our Old Virginia Theme area. Always Refreshing, Always Coca-Cola."
Hmmmm... So Coca-Cola sponsors the Log Flume at PKD... I wonder
what that really means...
Also listed as corporate sponsors are: Chevrolet (sponsor of the
Paramount Theatre, plus it has its cars and trucks situated
throughout the park), Kodak (which is sold in PKD stores, unlike
Chevrolet's products (*grin*), and Kodak more-or-less sponsors
the "Kodak Photo Spots" throughout the park, Marva Maid Dairy
(they used to have a different dairy company, btw) which serves
"fresh" (don't ask me WHY the word 'fresh' is in quotation marks...
hmmmm...) milk and ice cream, WRVQ FM/Q94 which broadcasts live
from PKD occasionally, Chevy Chase Bank who has ATM machines inside
the park, WUSA-Channel 9 from Washington D.C. which has the
"Official Meteorologist of Paramount's Kings Dominion", Doug Hill,
and the combination of DSMC, Silicon Graphics, and Netscape who,
together with Real Networks, brings us the PKD website.
Seemingly fewer corporate sponsors than I remember KD having about
10 years ago...but interesting about the corporate sponsorship...
By the way, it seems like PKD has only plastic bags... Why don't
we get a choice of paper or plastic, like out in the "real world"...
like we do with Coke and Pepsi. *sheepish grin* :-)
-Roy E. Grimm
...who's still debating in his mind about the whole Coke vs. Pepsi
issue...and who's wondering why parks don't sell a selection
of Mountain Dew, Cherry Coke, Mountain Dew, 7Up, Diet Coke,
and Mountain Dew...probably because I'd stand there holding
up the line, unable to decide among my favorite beverages...
:-)
Twistedcls
learned was very interesting. She contacted all the grocery chains in our
area, resturants, bars, and carry outs. It took her quite some time. In the
stores Pepsi had a 72% share of the market. In other words Pepsi is very much
prefered by the population. But in the food service places, coke had a 68%
share of the market. She asked "if Pepsi is the prefered drink then why do
most food service places serve Coke instead of Pepsi?" The answer she received
from most places was that Coke offered better service (for repairs to
equipment) We also learned that Burger King, the only fast food Burger chain
that served Pepsi that was not owned by Pepsico, dropped Pepsi in the early
90's for the same reason, servicing the stores machines in a timely manner. So
even though almost three quarters of the population prefers Pepsi, they have to
settle for Coke when dinning out. Now isn't that a shame. That is how Coke is
able to compete with Pepsi, if the can't sell more in the stores, they get you
every where else.
Cheryl (diet Pepsi drinker who would like to see it every where she
travels but has to settle for Diet Coke because they offer better service)
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Anyway, this does not have much to do with coasters, but if we are gonna have
a soft drink discussion, well let's do it up right!
but I have been to at least one restuarant that sells both Coke and Pepsi.
For a long time, the two brands were sold out of totally different fountains,
located on opposite ends of the dining room. (One host station had Pepsi,
the other Coke, yet both were listed on the menu) Well you can guess what
happenned, the people who got seated in the Pepsi section, would want Coke,
and vice versa. This casued the servers to have to do a lot of cross-dining
room trips. (Heck get a group in there and order the 'opposite' soft drink
on purpose.....)
Anyway, they just remodeled the restaurant, and now both host stations have
both Coke and Pepsi *IN THE SAME FOUNTAIN* Each side has an 8 flavor
fountain, one side has Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Root Beer (Barqs), the other
has Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper. The ice dispenser is of course,
in the middle.
It is one of the few times I have seen cross brands in the same fountain.
(A lot of the convenience stores around here have Super Thirst fountains with
16 flavors, 8 for each major brand, but on close look they are two seperate
machines side by side, with a fancy facade.)
Another place, that has the hand held soda guns (popular in bars and trendy
restaurants), has one with the buttons labeled "C", "S", "D",etc. But they
are a Pepsi place. The initials would match perfectly for Coke, so maybe
they changed over....
Let's see how much more can I say about soft drinks.....
Oh, I have seen both brands mixed in vending machines, but usually only when
they are being run by a vending company, or a private individual. (And have
the "Cold Drinks" front on them. Recently, I have seen Coke in a Pepsi
vending machine. The button says "Pepsi" but it dispenses Coke. It is
dubbed the 'black-market-machine' in a Pepsi place.
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> Why cant parks put a Pepsi Pop Machine, and next to it a Coke Machine. Let us
> decide what we wont and have them pay equal amounts to have there drinks used.
> Make half of the food places coke and the other half pepsi.
Cost. The Magic Kingdom used to sell both Coke and Pepsi (back before there was an
EPCOT). But even the mouse had to give into the savings of an exclusive contract.
By having a location sign an exclusive contract Coke or Pepsi will offer the
product and services for substantially less. These contracts are usually long
term, and include servicing the equipment, and often several other perks.
Jeffrey Seifert
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machines side by side and when I last went to Sea World, there were
competitions between Pepsi and Mountain Dew so I think Busch supports
Pepsi/Dew
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Coaster488 wrote in message <19981104193006...@ng01.aol.com>...
>Why cant parks put a Pepsi Pop Machine, and next to it a Coke Machine. Let
us
>decide what we wont and have them pay equal amounts to have there drinks
used.
Twistedcls
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their own fountain, maintains their own fountain and simply buys the
post-mix or whatever the use from both companies. It's simply buying from
two different vendors. Because of the nature of all of this, it is MUCH
easier to make a contract with a company to MAINTAIN all of the equipment.
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but they don't sell Coke :-( We have to go to PKI for a Coke!
Geo
Coaster488 wrote:
>
> Why cant parks put a Pepsi Pop Machine, and next to it a Coke Machine. Let us
> decide what we wont and have them pay equal amounts to have there drinks used.
> Make half of the food places coke and the other half pepsi
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>but they don't sell Coke :-( We have to go to PKI for a Coke!
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George Wells wrote in message <3643A63F...@toltbbs.com>...
>Agreed! They should put both Coke and Pepsi. Cedar Point is our favorite park
>but they don't sell Coke :-( We have to go to PKI for a Coke!
Funny, I thought you could buy Coke in Sandusky!
john cline ii who doesn't understand why anyone would want to! Diet Pepsi,
please! (Or better yet, Diet Cheerwine!)
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product. Same goes for fast food restaurants.
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Roy E Grimm wrote in message <71r2u1$u...@portal.gmu.edu>...
coast...@yahoo.com
> Anyway, this does not have much to do with coasters, but if we are gonna have
> a soft drink discussion, well let's do it up right!
>
> but I have been to at least one restuarant that sells both Coke and Pepsi.
Around here where I live, I constantly see places that server all Coke
products, plus Dr. Pepper. Only DP though. I have always thought this was
strange.
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Matthew Doak
enough, the one place it was served - the TGI Friday's on the entrance to
the causeway - is owned by Cedar Point!
-Matt
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Dana Schwartz
>I noticed that it was nearly impossible to find Coke in Sandusky! Oddly
>enough, the one place it was served - the TGI Friday's on the entrance to
>the causeway - is owned by Cedar Point!
Uh-oh, Matt! *Now* you've gone and done it! :-)
Just wait till Dave Althoff sees *this* one! Now, tell me again,
Dave, what *was* that cola they served you on the Night of the Service
From Hell at TGI Friday's in Sandusky (Friday, 26 June 1998)? Coke or
Pepsi... or none of the above? :-)
In addition to the Great (Not!) Coke Debate, we experienced:
-- "Let's bring all service from the kitchen to a screeching halt
because our computers are down." (Dave and Joe S. offered to go back
and *fix* them, but they didn't take 'em up on the offer.)
-- The waitress who (at first) refused to bring Dooley and me
Guinness, because, "We only have that at the *downstairs* bar, and I
get my beverages from the bar up *here*." Um... it's the SAME
restaurant! (Since no food was coming out of the kitchen, and, at 11
pm the restaurant wasn't really crowded, she certainly wasn't
overworked *serving* food to anybody!)
-- The Look of Horror and Amazement on Joe's face when a server
dropped a bowl of sour cream at the exit from the kitchen. Six
employees stared at the "catastrophe" and decided to solve the problem
by throwing a towel over the mess rather than cleaning it up.
-- The Mine Car Buddy death stares. He was p.o.'ed and ravenously
hungry, and couldn't understand why we were sitting there waiting for
the food for an hour. Especially since he could see a McDonald's
through the window.
I'm amazed that we all managed to keep laughing. Well, everyone
except Buddy, who calmed down when we finally did get the food.
Dooley, MCB, Joe and I were staying in town, but I felt bad for Dave
who had a two hour drive back to Columbus. I don't think we got out
of there until after 1 am!
I'm a *huge* Friday's fan -- we practically live in them on the road
(they serve until 2 or 3 am, even on weeknights, in most locations).
And, we have one less than two miles from our house -- that location
has the fun, interactive trivia games from NTN. But, it'll be a while
before I give the one at the end of the Cedar Point causeway another
chance.
Dana Schwartz (who has over 50,000 Frequent Friday's points; Dooley
and I are saving them for a plane ticket to any Friday's in the US --
I think we'll pick one somewhere "near" a coaster... Seattle must have
a Friday's, or San Diego, or Santa Cruz, or...)
doo...@ix.netcom.com
Ted Ansley
>I'm a *huge* Friday's fan -- we practically live in them on the road
>(they serve until 2 or 3 am, even on weeknights, in most locations).
>And, we have one less than two miles from our house -- that location
>has the fun, interactive trivia games from NTN. But, it'll be a while
>before I give the one at the end of the Cedar Point causeway another
>chance.
>
I like playing NTN trvia too...I discovered it about 5 years ago hear in
MD at a restaurant called Rocky Run Tap & Grill, which is now a smaller
chain. Since then NTN has popped up at several other area
restarurants. Also, for those that have AOL you can play NTN online...and
they now have a website where you can play some sample games:
Ted
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Dana Schwartz
>doo...@ix.netcom.com (Dana Schwartz) wrote:
>>I'm a *huge* Friday's fan -- we practically live in them on the road
>>(they serve until 2 or 3 am, even on weeknights, in most locations).
>>And, we have one less than two miles from our house -- that location
>>has the fun, interactive trivia games from NTN.
>I like playing NTN trvia too...I discovered it about 5 years ago hear in
>MD at a restaurant called Rocky Run Tap & Grill, which is now a smaller
>chain. Since then NTN has popped up at several other area
>restarurants. Also, for those that have AOL you can play NTN online...and
>they now have a website where you can play some sample games:
Dooley and I play NTN as a team. Our name is... ROAR! Ted, and
anyone else who plays it in public settings -- look for us when they
post the national standings. Once in a blue moon we make the top
twenty! (Usually, we suck.) Our site makes the rankings once in a
while, too: TGI Fridays/No-So Brunswick, NJ. We have a few people
who LIVE in that place (look for YESFAN in the top rankings -- he's
one of "ours", and quite good -- wonder how many Frequent Friday's
points *he's* earned?).
Last summer, just before the beginning of Coaster Con, Mine Car Buddy,
Joe Schwartz and I played several rounds at the Friday's outside the
Radisson in Monroeville (Saturday evening, before most people had
arrived). We were doing pretty poorly (maybe it was the Kamikazes!),
but the screen we were playing on was under the ubiquitous neon Roller
Coaster sign. A good omen! The very last question we got in a
hodgepodge round was a multiple choice:
Riddler's Revenge is a...
Um... we got it right! And couldn't stop laughing all the way back to
the hotel! :-)
Dana Schwartz (who worked coaster stuff into this post a couple of
times!)
doo...@ix.netcom.com
Dana Schwartz
>Last summer, just before the beginning of Coaster Con, Mine Car Buddy,
>Joe Schwartz and I played several rounds at the Friday's outside the
>Radisson in Monroeville (Saturday evening, before most people had
>arrived). We were doing pretty poorly (maybe it was the Kamikazes!),
>but the screen we were playing on was under the ubiquitous neon Roller
>Coaster sign. A good omen! The very last question we got in a
>hodgepodge round was a multiple choice:
>Riddler's Revenge is a...
>Um... we got it right! And couldn't stop laughing all the way back to
>the hotel! :-)
Forgot one more "coaster" thing in the NTN story! Buddy, Joe and I
played under the team name Vettel that evening! It was somehow
fitting since we were in western PA. :-)
Dana Schwartz (who tries to put a little "coaster" into everything she
does -- a little bit of "other" into r.r-c; it keeps us all real)
doo...@ix.netcom.com
Kip Ross
Schwartz) wrote:
>I'm a *huge* Friday's fan -- we practically live in them on the road
>(they serve until 2 or 3 am, even on weeknights, in most locations).
>And, we have one less than two miles from our house -- that location
>has the fun, interactive trivia games from NTN. But, it'll be a while
>before I give the one at the end of the Cedar Point causeway another
>chance.
Heh, cool. I'm a mega TGIF fan myself! We have one like a mile or
two from our house and my family is always there. It's one of those
restaurants that you can't hold a grudge against after a bad incident.
You always go back! It's such a friendly place. The only bad time
I've had there was just a few weeks ago, in fact. My friends and I
decided to go there after our school game. So, we roll up to Friday's
at 10:00, and we didn't get our food until 11:30! I don't know what
happened that night. Anyway, I finish eating around 11:50. My
friends weren't even close to finished, so I gave them my share of the
bill, and headed out. Then the fun part, deciding which is worse --
breaking curfew or getting a ticket racing home trying NOT to break
curfew. :-) Well, that was the first time I found out that my
parents aren't really strict about curfew, luckily. It didn't matter
though, they were asleep when I got home.
Damn these provisionals! Only three months until I get them off.
(BTW, provisionals is a law in MD that says if you're under eighteen
with a license, you can't drive between midnight and 6am during your
first year. So, come, February, I can drive after midnight. Yee
haw!)
Get "jinxed" in 1999 -- at Six Flags America!
p a t c h.net
Schwartz) wrote:
>Dooley and I play NTN as a team. Our name is... ROAR! Ted, and
>anyone else who plays it in public settings -- look for us when they
>post the national standings. Once in a blue moon we make the top
>twenty! (Usually, we suck.) Our site makes the rankings once in a
>while, too: TGI Fridays/No-So Brunswick, NJ. We have a few people
>who LIVE in that place (look for YESFAN in the top rankings -- he's
>one of "ours", and quite good -- wonder how many Frequent Friday's
>points *he's* earned?).
I'm someone who plays NTN trivia, just not with a name or an actual
game box. I usually sit in the restaurant (look for the "Horseshoe
Cafe" in the national rankings, well, OK, you probably won't see them
in the rankings) in view of the trivia monitor (well, it's either that
or the Keno monitors, and my dining partners get mad if I keep
chanting "eight ... eight ... eight ... eight ... woo hoo!" at the
Keno drawings) and answer the trivia questions. One of these days I'm
gonna actually PLAY the durned thing instead of just from an, erm,
armchair.
>
>Last summer, just before the beginning of Coaster Con, Mine Car Buddy,
>Joe Schwartz and I played several rounds at the Friday's outside the
>Radisson in Monroeville (Saturday evening, before most people had
>arrived). We were doing pretty poorly (maybe it was the Kamikazes!),
>but the screen we were playing on was under the ubiquitous neon Roller
>Coaster sign. A good omen! The very last question we got in a
>hodgepodge round was a multiple choice:
>
>Riddler's Revenge is a...
>
>Um... we got it right! And couldn't stop laughing all the way back to
>the hotel! :-)
Ha! That's so cool. Now if they had asked "Superman: The Escape is
a....", you might have been in trouble. :)
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Ted Ansley
>Forgot one more "coaster" thing in the NTN story! Buddy, Joe and I
>played under the team name Vettel that evening! It was somehow
>fitting since we were in western PA. :-)
>
I just play under the name "Theo". I come in 1-4 usually amongst the
locals, we have some good players. When we go and eat now; Debi,
Marge and myself plays as team and we have fun as a team and
usually do very well.
Pete Babic
twist...@aol.com says...
> A few years back my daughter did a school report on "Coke or Pepsi?" What we
> learned was very interesting. She contacted all the grocery chains in our
> area, resturants, bars, and carry outs. It took her quite some time. In the
> stores Pepsi had a 72% share of the market. In other words Pepsi is very much
> prefered by the population. But in the food service places, coke had a 68%
> share of the market.
I wonder if those numbers are a regional thing. The grocery store I go to
has a bigger display of Coke on the shelves than Pepsi, which may be that
they sell more Coke, or Coke gave them some perks in exchange for shelf
space. If these numbers hold true nationwide, it's amazing how off my
taste is from the rest of the population. I much prefer Coke, and if Coke
is unavailable will drink RC, Fanta Cola, President's Choice Cola, and
almost any other cola drink over Pepsi.
--
Pete Babic
p...@po.cwru
Case Western Reserve University
Kevin L.M.
Ted Ansley wrote:
--
Koaster Kiwi >>>>>Raptor rules the sky, I stepped on the Mantis
haha<<<<<
homepark by distance: Kennywood
homepark of heart: Cedarpoint
fav ride: Raptor at Cedarpoint
fav woodie:Wildcat at Hershey Park
Dana Schwartz
>what is ntn????
Well, it's not about coasters, but here's a brief description from the
NTN web site (http://www.ntn.com):
"The NTN Network offers consumers at bars, restaurants and hotels the
opportunity to compete with each other, via satellite, in live trivia
and sports-related game shows. NTN introduced its first interactive
game, NFL-licensed QB1*, during the 1984 Super Bowl. Played in
realtime in conjunction with NFL and collegiate football broadcasts,
QB1 challenges players across the country to predict which play the
offense will run just prior to the snap of the ball. Today, the NTN
Network offers more than 30 popular interactive games ranging from
Countdown *and Trivial Pursuit* Live to Sports IQ* and Playback*.
The NTN Network distributes its interactive sports and trivia games to
over 15 million consumers per month through U.S. venues. Last year,
participants played more than 47 million multi-player games, with a
total of 200 million viewer/participants."
As Ted mentioned earlier in this thread, AOL offers an online version.
NTN is a lot of fun!
Dana Schwartz (who knows the TGI Friday's menu by heart because of
this game! I recommend the Cobb Salad and Name Your Own Burgers, but
stay away from the "Faux Mexican" stuff and the Wrappers. The Jack
Daniels Salmon is good, too!)
doo...@ix.netcom.com
Rob 4621
Atlanta, and currently an employee at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, I
just wanted to say that your answer was exactly correct. My question, is why
so many people had so much to say about this subject on a Roller Coaster board.
Cheers.
J. Rob McCullough
David H. -- REMOVE NOSPAMMERS to reply
Interestingly, the situation seems to be the opposite in the
Boston-area. Almost every restaurant I've ever worked in sells Pepsi,
though I'm not sure why. (Now, I'll have to ask the managers!) But
almost everyone orders Coke. Admittedly, coke has become a generic name
for cola. But I always warn people that we sell Pepsi, which gets
people asking for a different drink much more often than you'd think --
several times per day. And far more give a bit of a look or make a mild
comment, but go with Pepsi anyways. On the rare occasions where I've
worked in a restaurant offering Coke, I don't recall anyone ever
refusing the product.
However, the vast majority of people don't seem to care which cola
product we sell. They may ask for Coke generically, but they'll drink
anything when they're thirsty.
And I think that that's what those major marketing campaigns with
amusement parks (trying desperately to bring this back on topic!), fast
food chains, restaurants, movie theater chains, sporting arenas, etc.
are all about: getting people used to drinking their product on a
regular basis. Apparently, that's worth giving amusement parks lots of
free advertising.
David H. -- REMOVE NOSPAMMERS to reply
wrote:
>"Matthew Doak" <md...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>I noticed that it was nearly impossible to find Coke in Sandusky! Oddly
>>enough, the one place it was served - the TGI Friday's on the entrance to
>>the causeway - is owned by Cedar Point!
>
>Uh-oh, Matt! *Now* you've gone and done it! :-)
>
>Just wait till Dave Althoff sees *this* one! Now, tell me again,
>Dave, what *was* that cola they served you on the Night of the Service
>From Hell at TGI Friday's in Sandusky (Friday, 26 June 1998)? Coke or
>Pepsi... or none of the above? :-)
>
>In addition to the Great (Not!) Coke Debate, we experienced:
>
>-- "Let's bring all service from the kitchen to a screeching halt
>because our computers are down." (Dave and Joe S. offered to go back
>and *fix* them, but they didn't take 'em up on the offer.)
>
You wouldn't believe how much restaurants come to depend on computers
and how much their going down can send almost everything to a screeching
halt. And you should see the lines at the calculators when the staff
realizes that they've forgotten remedial math. (Personally, I can do
the math myself, even the tax (though 5% is an easy figure).
Ironically, I'm the only one with a calculator watch, though I don't
need it then.)
Luckily, the restaurant I'm at now seems to have a pretty stable
computer system. It's only gone down about 4-5 times in the 16 months
I've worked there, and never for more than a half hour. I think I've
only actually had to drop 2 hand-written checks, though I'd prepared a
few more. At other restaurants I've worked at, the computers have gone
down several times per WEEK, often for hours at a time!
>-- The waitress who (at first) refused to bring Dooley and me
>Guinness, because, "We only have that at the *downstairs* bar, and I
>get my beverages from the bar up *here*." Um... it's the SAME
>restaurant! (Since no food was coming out of the kitchen, and, at 11
>pm the restaurant wasn't really crowded, she certainly wasn't
>overworked *serving* food to anybody!)
>
You pain in the @$$ customers sending her downstairs! ;-)
I wonder if the reason she couldn't get it for you is that it might not
even be programmed into her computer's terminal, since she's not
supposed to serve it?
>-- The Look of Horror and Amazement on Joe's face when a server
>dropped a bowl of sour cream at the exit from the kitchen. Six
>employees stared at the "catastrophe" and decided to solve the problem
>by throwing a towel over the mess rather than cleaning it up.
>
You'd be amazed at how often stuff like that happens, particularly in
the back where customers can't see it. One time a friend and I were
both bending down to pick up the same take-out lid (which had been
sitting on the floor for over an hour.) We laughed and decided to do an
experiment. Since one side was paper, we wrote "Hi, I've been sitting
here since before 4PM" on it, then lay it with that side down where it
had been. It was just around the turn at the bottom of the stairs to
the kitchen. Virtually every time anyone picked up anything from or
brought anything to the kitchen, they'd step on or over this lid. Every
time we saw each other in the kitchen, we looked at it and laughed. It
was finally picked up some time in the 9 O'Clock hour!
>-- The Mine Car Buddy death stares. He was p.o.'ed and ravenously
>hungry, and couldn't understand why we were sitting there waiting for
>the food for an hour. Especially since he could see a McDonald's
>through the window.
>
I've had two similar experiences waiting forever at Boston's TGIFridays.
I haven't been back. Then again, I was never much of a fan. It's
always just been either the first ok place to eat we saw or the only
place open late.
And don't you just hate it when you have to wait forever to ride a
coaster? (another feeble attempt at staying even remotely on-topic.)