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jasonw3 May 23, 2015 5:44 pm


Originally Posted by wharvey (Post 22241364)
Not soon enough.... one thing I love about moving to Georgia is that almost every restaurant offers Coca Cola... except for PepsiCo owned restaurants!

PepsiCo doesn't own any restaurants.

sanfran8080 May 24, 2015 8:07 am

Not soon enough....Bring in Coca-Cola products

returnoftheyeti May 27, 2015 5:32 pm

Love the fact that they usually have Gatorade for sale in the lobby's, another PepsiCo product.

jsucool76 May 27, 2015 10:08 pm

mello yello

that is all

mjcewl1284 May 28, 2015 9:12 pm

I travel to HK quite often for business and my clients always ask me to bring some Pepsi products from the Marriott props I frequent there, mainly because Pepsi is non-existent elsewhere in HK (one can find it in supermarkets, but usually at a rate that is non-competitive to Coca Cola), and most of East Asia.

I don't mind either. I do prefer a Diet Pepsi over Diet Coke but if we're talking about non diet products, hands down Coke all the way

Madone59 May 28, 2015 10:23 pm


Originally Posted by sanfran8080 (Post 24862093)
Not soon enough....Bring in Coca-Cola products

+1 ^^^^^ Yes!

DenverBrian May 28, 2015 10:31 pm


Originally Posted by socrates (Post 22329233)
I'm not personally aware of anyone having a waiver in this area...honestly I can't think of a reason one would be granted....

As I recall, the standard of making the guest welcome and taking care of requests always overrides any contractural standards for F&B products. For instance, if a group specifies in their group contract that Coke products be offered in the BEOs, I'm sure the hotel is allowed to do that.

So you end up with cases of canned Coke product coming into the hotel; and invariably it's not all used by the group, even though they paid for it; and the canned product eventually ends up at the concierge lounge, behind the bar, etc. to get used up. @:-)

hockeyinsider Nov 22, 2017 5:42 pm


Originally Posted by Gigantor (Post 22275315)
1. Marriott is a Mormon-family-owned company.
2. The Mormon Church is a large shareholder in Pepsi.

Therefore:
This business relationship is faith-based.
It will last forever.

Fake news.
https://www.snopes.com/cokelore/mormon.asp

milesmutt Nov 28, 2017 10:42 am

Regular Coke all the way, hands down. Nothing like the first sip of an ice cold Coke to knock you upside the head!
Even better is the Mexican Coke made with real sugar.


Although I have to agree Diet Pepsi is not bad. But regular Pepsi is just plain naaaaasty.

Stayed at many Marriott properties around the world and never recall having Coca-Cola
products available. Such a shame.

SkiAdcock Nov 28, 2017 5:30 pm


Originally Posted by milesmutt (Post 29109767)
Even better is the Mexican Coke made with real sugar.

Ugh. Disagree. Even the diet Mexican Coke sucks. So obviously to each their own. While I prefer Coke products over Pepsi products, in the overall scheme of things neither is important (to me). I've gotten to the point where (airline, hotel, restaurant) I just say I'll have a diet coke or pepsi, whichever you serve.

Cheers.

returnoftheyeti Nov 28, 2017 8:54 pm

The best thing about Pepsi Co is Gatorade

VA1379 Nov 28, 2017 10:14 pm

Gatorade and Tropicana orange juice are what I like best from Pepsi. I’m not a soda drinker except for ginger ale.

OTD Dec 7, 2017 1:22 pm

The four most hateful words in the English language: "Is Diet Pepsi OK?"

hockeyinsider Dec 7, 2017 2:36 pm

Park City (Utah) Marriott primarily serves Coke products.

Nathalia Spiritbomb Rojas Feb 4, 2018 6:47 pm

Why
 
Basically Marriott is loyal to Pepsi because they fronted them money when Coca cola didn't when they were first starting out. I think it's great Marriott has loyalty and though some hotels in the brand may offer coca cola they will never have a contract with Marriott. Don't know who starwood backs though since Marriott acquired their portfolio so not sure how that would play out if starwood was a Coca cola sponsor.


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