Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
I know it's been around in select places for a while now, but one had never crossed my path. This afternoon while I was out getting lunch I found myself in contact with one of these machines. I snapped a quick pic (sorry for the glare) of this somewhat illusive machine.
I'd like to make a few points...
1) The amount of choices you get is just AWESOME. Granted I've become a water person instead of a soda person over the past few years, but even still you can get basically anything and everything which ROCKS.
2) While you can get everything under the sun it sucks that it all comes from one machine. That means everyone has to wait on everyone where as the traditional grab your own drink way is just faster for moving through more people
3) You can get a ton of choices but the machine doesn't really let you know that at 1st glance. It's all subdivided so you on your 1st go round you might not quiet understand that clicking say Coke then reveals a 2nd menu with regular Coke highlighted and a ton of other choices like cherry or vanilla coke bellow. Still once you figure this out it all makes sense.
4) Finally a general complaint I have is with the touch screen. It's one of those hard surface screens that feels like it's built like a tank. You don't get any tactile feedback that you've pressed the button right though, and the machine transitions between screens isn't as fast as I'd like them to be. So you're sort of left wondering if you really touched the right button or not for a 2nd. Then you might go up to try and tap it again, and then your 1st tap comes up. No feedback wouldn't be as bad if the machine ran through the menus faster.
I'd like to make a few points...
1) The amount of choices you get is just AWESOME. Granted I've become a water person instead of a soda person over the past few years, but even still you can get basically anything and everything which ROCKS.
2) While you can get everything under the sun it sucks that it all comes from one machine. That means everyone has to wait on everyone where as the traditional grab your own drink way is just faster for moving through more people
3) You can get a ton of choices but the machine doesn't really let you know that at 1st glance. It's all subdivided so you on your 1st go round you might not quiet understand that clicking say Coke then reveals a 2nd menu with regular Coke highlighted and a ton of other choices like cherry or vanilla coke bellow. Still once you figure this out it all makes sense.
4) Finally a general complaint I have is with the touch screen. It's one of those hard surface screens that feels like it's built like a tank. You don't get any tactile feedback that you've pressed the button right though, and the machine transitions between screens isn't as fast as I'd like them to be. So you're sort of left wondering if you really touched the right button or not for a 2nd. Then you might go up to try and tap it again, and then your 1st tap comes up. No feedback wouldn't be as bad if the machine ran through the menus faster.
