Soda-fountain pharmacies skyrocketed during the 1930s during the Prohibition when shut bars down. The first U.S. patent for dispensing carbonated water through a soda fountain spigot dates to the ...

The study, published in August in the journal Drinking Water, found more than 40% of water samples from fast-food soda fountains had coliforms present, an indicator of contamination. The study ...

Griffith leaves the dispensing to soda jerks like Jarrett and Fornash (they're not really jerks — the term describes the motion used to pull the handle of the soda water dispenser).

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Self-service fountain machines at pizza parlors and delis have the different sugary sodas labeled with big buttons, while there are often smaller black “water” and “soda ...