Why isnt there more variety when it comes to beverages? (beer, restaurants)
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I wish chain restaurants served something diet other than diet coke. Sometimes I just don't want diet coke and I don't like 'full fat' soda. I'm fine just drinking water but the restaurant is losing out on the $2.50 I would have spent by not offering an alternative.
I don't buy drinks for home except milk, tea and apple juice which is drunk mixed with half water. We could certainly spend a lot on all the juices and flavored waters my stores seem to stock, but I'd rather not.
Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, and other high fructose beverages. For the most part this is what stores offer.
We havent evolved to broaden pass these giants?
I go to this local bistro and they make this awesome beverage blend. I told the owner to sell it in local stores. But now that I think about it, I dont know if that would work. Its so hard for businesses to introduce their new beverage product to the masses. But why?
We branch out when it comes to other foods right? People are so picky with their meals, they are foodies now. Lobster bisque, duck a l'orange, pho, etc.
But wheres the variety with drinks?can we start demanding chains to upgrade their selection PLEASE?
We should no longer be drinking these sodas. They dont even taste good. Can I get a white grape juice? I tried that once at a farmers market. Lets demand more.
Do you really expect a chain restaurant to offer a large variety of high-quality drinks? As already suggested, maybe you should stop going to chains. There are healthier alternatives, with a lot more variety.
A friend of mine complains that in fast food restaurants with a drink refill fountain, there are never any drinks that are free of both sugar and caffeine. Diet 7Up would be, but they never have it. Everything else has either sugar or caffeine, or both. This, in spite of the claims by so many of them that they are serving more healthy menus.
Totally true. However, every single one I've been in will give you a cup for water, and there's nearly always a water button on fountains (usually on the lemon-lime beverage, sometimes the lemonade, if they have that). Some will even have a carbonated water switch...I know the McDonald's that I worked at as a teen, myself, did, on the Sprite fountain nozzle.
Chipotle gives water glasses for free, they're clear plastic so that they can see that you're not asking for a water glass and filling it with soda/other beverage. Same with Panera.
The OP seemed to be talking about grocery chains, and someone else came in with the restaurants.
Anyhow, I seem to remember that most fast food chains offer orange juice at breakfast (and you might talk them into serving it at other times also), and that Taco Bell had come out with an alternative drink, but that might have only been for a brief time.
I can't afford to eat out too often, even though it would mean a better quality of food. A Big Mac has more nutritive value than the foods I cook at home.
I guess I am less adventuresome with drinks than food. Many places where I live have some sort of rice drink, it is a Hispanic thing, and some sort of oatmeal drink, and some yogurt drinks, all of which sound pretty gross to me. I did have a watermelon drink the other day, which was very refreshing, watermelon juice, and lime, with sugar and soda water. And I am learning to make a mean Mojito, with all types of fresh herbs, not just mint.
I don't know where the OP lives, but around here many Mexican restaurants offer a selection of aquas frescas. The most popular are sandÃa (fresh watermelon juice), melón (fresh cantaloupe juice), horchata (a rice and cinnamon based sweet drink), pepino (fresh cucumber juice... very refreshing), piña (fresh pineapple juice), fresa (fresh strawberry juice, very $$$), fresh lemonade and a nasty concoction called tamarindo.
The watermelon and cantelope "aquas frescas" sound pretty good.
Personally I never like colas, always was more of a citrus-based or fruit-based drink fan myself, so these fall in line with that.
I dont go to Trader Joes much but they have some really good sodas..their tangerine or clementien-based (orange) soda is great, as is that improted grapefruit soda they sell (from Italy, I think).
The Italians make some good soft drinks, it seems.
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As already suggested, maybe you should stop going to chains. There are healthier alternatives, with a lot more variety.
