I'm not talking about the few people that dine in at a crappy fast food joint though. Im talking sit down restaurants.

In that case, I think Sizzler is the only sit down restaurant I can think of that has it.

Yeah that's my point that no one does where as in the US EVERYONE does.

I visited Ricks a few times in the months prior to closure and have visited the new Stars buffet once. The VIP offer for this month and last is $19.99 and Free Unlimited Soft Drink for Gold VIP's. The new Stars buffet has a smaller selection than Ricks had but the same food. Unlike Ricks it is one single entry not a wrist banded come back for the day, no postmix is available in Stars and they gave me a 600ml coke for the Gold offer.

Yeah that's my point that no one does where as in the US EVERYONE does.

Denny's and IHOP (both on par with Sizzler) didn't when I was there last year.

Denny's and IHOP (both on par with Sizzler) didn't when I was there last year.

Off topic but when I visited IHOP they provided me with unlimited free refills.

Bastards. Someone fly me back so I can get a refund! Is Ricks cafe actually themed to anything? As in, who's Rick? (probably missing something obvious here?)

It's themed to Casablanca, and Ricks was a cafe in the film.

^ Its an old film (in black and white) but a classic! When I went to San Fran for a week and lived on campus in the college dorms at the University of California practically everywhere I went gave free re-fills. I remember I first encountered it when we to Hard Rock at Pier 39 and they gave me a drink and I was like "I didn't order this!" and had to be told by the people I was there with this was the norm in America. Last time I went to Food Fantasy at Jupiter's it had unlimited refills; my guess is they make such a killing from post-mix due to its low cost and high mark up and they don't want to loose it!?!?

Ricks is probably the best themed building in the park. It's pretty much exact to the film. Not sure if it's changing though with the refit.

DreamWorld Does there's for $5, unlimited drink refills! So that alright!

TGI Friday's in Melbourne does free refills

Again, an American chain! Anyone ever been to Outback Steakhouse in Syd? What are they like? The Hooters in Mermaid Beach I can't comment on because we didn't have soft drinks.

Whilst on the topic of soft drinks and refills Holiday World have posted their free unlimited drink line-up for this year. They may be Pepsi drinks but the fact the park offers them free and unlimited is a great move from a park that is family owned and not part of a major chain. I will say I would like to see unlimited refills at our parks even if it is at a cost.

Would love to see MW get one of these

I used the one at USF, and made a Vanilla Hi-C, it was quite good

I didn't like the USA version of vanilla coke. It seems where we have a pre-mixed one, they seem to take normal coke and then add a couple of shots of vanilla essence to it.

Different markets have different flavours. Penrith used to have a Diner called Johnny Rockets - they offered over 60 soda flavours, with my favourite being lemon coke - the lemon coke that they released commercially was crap - but Johnny Rockets was awesome. I also found Dr Pepper in the states had a completely different flavour to the one we've had in Australia. I've never heard of the Freestyle Coke machine before... we need that one on our shores ASAP.

Actually, I found our Coke and the Coke in America to taste completely different. I think it was something to do with the fact we used sugar cane whereas Coke in America uses corn syrup. Personally, I preferred our Coke with sugar cane.

Guessing it is also the reason why our Vanilla Coke tastes better. Their stuff seems watered down for some reason.

I beg to differ! When i head over to the states each year i drink coke like there is no tomorrow!!!! i love there bottled coke and post mix, im not a huge drinker of it over here, so my trips make up for the average persons consumption over here

Also, ricks did a all you can drink deal for I think it was 4.95 and you got a cup you could refill in the cafe all day. Not sure if it will be coming back when it reopens but I can't see why it wouldn't.