Bag in a box syrup

Hi friends,
This may be old news, but it was new to me, so I thought I'd pass it along. I was pleasantly surprised to see Bag-In-A-box at Sam's Club the other day. I snapped the photo with my Treo 650 smartphone.

[MoonDawg]

What is bag in box?  

[Jim]

Is that a  bag of syrup in a box...?

As for the phone, technology in your pocket can be nice at times... '>

[johnieG]

Quote (MoonDawg @ Jan. 27 2005,12:46)

What is bag in box?

BIB (Bag-in-Box) is soda-syrup use in post- mix type soda-fountians at Mcdonalds, & all your other fast food joints & gas sations, quicky-marts, etc. as opposed to Pre-mix (stainless steel Tanks) FYI '>

Well I happened to be near that Sam's Club today, so I swung in to see how many gallons of syrup the box holds and it is 5 gallons!! People with post-mix soda fountains (like mine) often unsuccessfully talk their local Coca-Cola bottler into selling syrup to them, so this is cool.

On the shelf in the photo, they had:
Coke
Diet Coke
Sprite
Barq's rootbeer
Vanilla Coke
Mello Yellow
and even that cherry flavor that is for making those frozen Cherry Cokes!

Pretty cool!

Here's my machine:

[loman4ec]

The only problem is I think you have to be a dealer or have a vending license to buy the syrup from Sams. I thought about buying a soda machine one once for my apartment when I lived in FL because my place is where everyone hung out. They told me that they wouldn't sell it to me. Oh well that is when I bought my first machine.

[Creighton]

Hey Kito,

Pay back time :-) Cool dispenser!! Soul mate just declared that as cute. Very good sign for getting one. First quesion was will it dispense wine with mods?
Thanks!!
Creighton

Thanks Creighton, it feels good to finally run with you big dogs.
Never thought of the wine route! I have no idea. Interesting thought though.
As you could probably see from the photo, mine is in the "lobby" of my large dedicated home theater.

Yea thankfully I have access to a Licence to buy it from anyplace or directly from coke, Only glitch is even your local Coke bottler dosent carry " all flavors" just the most popular. One that they DONT carry is Caffine free Reg coke( which I want) and they wont order it either( fill in swear word and laughing slightly at cokes languishing sales recently). So to wiggle my way around that I also have another contact in the food industry and he is checking if they can order Caff free coke in their list. I can get fresica,caff free Diet and all kinds of sprite, and Minuit made If I recall all local and a few others by calling coke's 800 number. But For now Its all about getting the caff free Reg. yes Mark Nice setup Me Likey, me likey a lot  Im gonna start to snap some pictures of My setup this week and will post. Seeing peoples stuff is cool

Thanks Adam.
By the way, how did you get the access to a license?

Hi guys,
For any of you new to post-mix dispensers and who may be interested in setting one up,
here are a few sites with very good info:
http://www.boneville.net/soda/default.htm
http://www.boneville.net/soda/install_setup.htm
http://www.boneville.net/soda/brix.htm
http://www.geocities.com/timr21/
http://www.sodaparts.com/
http://www.thesodafountain.com/cgi-bin....current

And a very important note on avoiding "Post-Mix Poisoning":
http://www.contractormag.com/articles/column.cfm?columnid=46

[glassbottlesrule]

I found this site awhile back.  Tons of good info. Was going to do this but decided the kids do not that much pop.

[Creighton]

Hi Kito,
Great info Thanks much!!
Have some reading to do :-). Part of a very long ago job was to keep a popcorn machine just like that humming. Great fun.  
Creighton

Mark, Family member works for a Non- profit as a side Job and we can get it through there..............Sorry for the Delay in the reply I forgot about this thread.

No prob. Very cool.