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Your machine is ready to roll! Magnus Atu, the Customer Service Manager at FBD covers how to change flavors on your dispenser, how to clean your dispenser, how to identify common errors with a dispenser, and reach out to a service provider when needed. David Bird is an engineer at FBD and he walks you…
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FBD Store Personnel Training: Level 1 – Checklist Before Calling a Service Provider
community generated content – FBD Partnership If you feel like you can’t handle a maintenance issue yourself, run through this checklist to ensure you need to call a service provider to get your machine back up and running. Before calling your service provider, please verify your water supply, your CO2 supply, your syrup to the…
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FBD Store Personnel Training: 56X Product
This training video focuses on ensuring a successful frozen beverage program and maintaining FBD frozen beverage equipment. It covers essential steps for a successful program, including the four elements needed for a frozen drink: water, syrup, CO2, and electricity. The importance of proper placement of the bag-in-box (BIB) syrup containers is emphasized. Maintenance and cleaning…
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FBD Store Personnel Training: Basics of Maintenance
There are a range of issues your machine might experience, many of which you can take care of yourself. In this video we will explore them! When your dispenser is displaying all the different lights, you need to verify what is happening. To verify what’s going on, you would need to lift the door up…
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FBD Store Personnel Training: How to Clean the Machine (Daily Cleaning)
This video will go over how to clean your machine daily. It is very important for you to clean your machine daily! To clean your machine daily it will require the proper cleaning solution and a soft towel. Make sure to clean both the surfaces of the machine and on the unit itself. Spray the…
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FBD Store Personnel Training: How to Change Flavor
Changing flavors is a great way to keep customers coming back and to navigate inventory levels. This video goes over how to change flavors for different kinds of products. This video reminds you to ensure you have the right graphics and to match them on the merchandiser to the new flavor and to pay close…
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FBD Store Personnel Training: Basic Dispenser Menu Access
The Basic Dispenser Menu provides access to a variety of key functions. This video provides a detailed description of the Basic Dispenser Menu and the user interfaces of FBD equipment. It introduces the 773 unit and the 771 multi-flavor unit, explaining how they display flavors and statuses. The main unit interface is described, including buttons,…
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