What do you call soft drinks/soda pop in your country? (map included!)

[alekth]

SamuelRSmith said:

alekth said:

How do they force restaurants, and who fines them? I've always thought those places just had a deal with whoever they chose.

Well, in the UK, if a restaurant/bar carries Pepsi, and the customer says that they want a Coke (as most do when asking for Coca Cola), the server is technically supposed to reassert that they are about to buy a Pepsi, rather than Coca Cola. I'm not sure whether this comes from the bureacrats in Whitehall, or the ones in Brussels.

That is fine, and I know some people who'd mind it an awful lot if they were served one instead of the other, but I was refering to this:

American usage of any of the three major terms is because of the soda wars in the states. All restaurants are forced to carry only one brand of soft drinks, and can be fined if they carry rival brands (e.g. Pepsi Co. products and Coke products). The penality is so high that a place would likely rather shut down than handle the fine.

Though I googled it up in the meantime, and it's really just contracts, with restaurants getting machinery and other stuff for free/at a low price if they stick to one brand. But I couldn't find anything about them actually being forced to choose, or forced to sign such exclusivity terms.