Foodservice

Coca-Cola introduces enhanced countertop Freestyle

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May 19, 2021

Coca-Cola Freestyle has introduced a countertop fountain dispenser to give smaller-footprint restaurants the ability to offer more than 80 beverage choices with the touch of a button.

The newest member of the Coca-Cola Freestyle family — the 7100 — features a 24-inch high-definition touchscreen, intuitive user interface to make it easier and faster for guests to select and pour the beverages they want, the company said. The 7100 is available in red or black.

Coca-Cola Freestyle 7100 is powered by the Freestyle Operating System, which delivers dynamic, over-the-air software updates, an enhanced diagnostics dashboard with real-time drink inventory levels, and "self-healing" maintenance capabilities, the company said. A new content management system lets restaurants promote marketing content and add beverage brands and categories.

The launch follows the 2018 rollout of the Coca-Cola Freestyle 9100, which lets fans select, mix and pour more than 200 beverage choices in a range of categories and calorie options.

In 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Coca-Cola Freestyle rolled out a contactless pouring solution across its entire North American fleet of almost 40,000 dispensers. Consumers can choose and pour a drink from their phone without having to sign up for a membership or download an app, by holding up their smartphone camera and auto-scanning a QR code on the display to connect to the cloud and bring the Coca-Cola Freestyle user interface to their phone.