I know that if you loose money in vending machines for canned soda you can
be reimbursed at the Bursar's Office. I do not know if this applies to
situation in the cafeteria but I feel students or others should be
reimbursed for their loss. I recommend drinking water until this problem is
resolved.

Mary Coleman

-----Original Message-----
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Joe Dumas
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [UTCSTAFF] The worst coke machines ever designed

Adam Trowbridge wrote:
> I'm not generally one to complain about petty things but the new conveyor
> belt drink machine in the UC is the most blatant example of overdesign
I've
> seen in some time. If it was overdesigned and worked it would be one thing
> but it fails constantly.

For real.  I think I have succeeded in getting a drink out of it maybe 
twice this semester.  It's constantly "down."

> You don't even need to use it to see how often if
> fails, just walk by and look in. Every drink bottle leaning outwards
towards
> the glass is another $1.25 lost by someone. Even better is that once the
> bottle in front is leaning, that row seems to continue to fail. 
> Maybe you can send your design, business and/or engineering students by to
> have a look at what seemed to be a "cool concept" that failed in execution

I think it would be great for our computer science students studying 
user interface design.  "More bells and whistles is not always a better 
approach...."

> (I guess if it's taking in $1.25 and giving out nothing it's not
necessarily
> failing at business, in the short term).

No, not in the very short term ... but long term it's a killer.  Given 
my bad luck with this machine and the (regular) drink machine on the 
third floor of EMCS, I have taken to the "mini-fridge and a 12-pack" 
approach.  Not only does that avoid problems with machine malfunctions, 
but also the exorbitant prices of $1.25 for a 20-ounce drink or 65 cents 
for a little 12-ounce can.  I can buy 12 of those for $3 (sometimes 
less) at a local grocery store.  Problem solved!

Joe

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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Dept. 2302
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Chattanooga, TN 37403
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