Your new crew member is ready to clock in.
1.7M+drinks poured
34sfaster per order
ACSD
Long lines = lost cars.
The most expensive order is the one you never get to take. When the queue stalls, drive-offs skyrocket.
Peak hour, drinks by hand12:00
0cars served an hour
0drive-offs an hour
0:00in line, per car
Slow service times
Seconds stack up. Lines get longer.
Labor inefficiency
One bottleneck ties up the crew.
Lost revenue
Every car that leaves is gone for good.
More stress
Pressure on your crew, frustrated guests.
Meet the automated solution.
ACSD takes the order from your POS and builds the drink itself, so your crew can work the window.
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Cup drop.
The order comes straight from your POS. The right cup drops from the tower, with no manual input.
Ice.
Fast-gate ice, measured into the cup, from 215 lb of storage on board.
Pour.
Up to 16 flavors from a single nozzle, flavor shots included.
Top-off.
Carbonated drinks settle, then they’re topped off automatically.
Staged.
Into clear sequential positions, with visual order identification. Your crew hands it out.
Technical specifications
Get the spec sheet- Dimensions
- 47″ H × 30″ W × 41″ D
- Net weight
- 480 lb · 217.7 kg
- Installation
- Countertop or stand
- Electrical
- 115 V 60 Hz · 220-240 V 50/60 Hz
- Ice storage
- 215 lb · 97.5 kg
- Cup storage
- 4 full sleeves
- Carousel
- 110 holders · 4 staging
- Brands
- 12 chilled + 4 ambient
- Water
- Carbonated or still
- Dispensing
- Fast-gate ice · MFV valves
- Water supply
- 80-100 psi, regulated 55-65
- CO₂
- 90-100 psi bulk · 75 at deck
Are you eligible for deployment?
Deployment begins Q2 2026, after pilots across multiple quick-service brands. Pilot and multi-unit rollout programs are open now.
ACSD makes beverages boring.On purpose.
Crews babysit pours in thousands of high-volume stores. Cornelius built ACSD to take that job off their plate, so drinks just show up.
- 01Babysitting poursPOS-triggered automation
- 02Ice inconsistencyConsistent ice and pours
- 03Order mix-upsClearly staged drinks
- 04Crew trapped at the windowPredictable peak flow
- 05Peak-hour stressCalmer, more focused crews
Calculate your ROI
8.0months to pay back
- Yearly revenue increase
- $79.6M
- 10-year revenue increase
- $796.3M
- Opportunity cost of not investing
- $334.3M
- Per location, a year
- $79.6K
*Results may vary by operation. Marmon’s own ROI model: 15.1 s saved per transaction at peak, 60 s per order, 5 holidays a year, list investment.
90-day, KPI-backed pilot
We share the risk.
If ACSD doesn’t hit the KPIs you agree on, Cornelius removes it and reinstalls your old system at no cost.
- 1BaselineYour current speed, volume and labor, measured first.
- 290 days liveACSD runs during your real peaks.
- 3Roll out or revertHit the KPIs and roll out. Miss them and it reverts, at Cornelius’s cost.
Application only. Limited pilot slots each quarter.
From the line
“I’d never go back. ACSD makes the station ~45 seconds faster.”
“First, second, third — orderly fashion. ACSD takes care of the rest.”
“What once required two crew members now takes one, with less effort.”
- 34sfaster per order
- 1.7M+drinks poured
- 12+more cars a day at peak
- ~60%of parts shared with Cornelius equipment
- 2 yrparts and labor warranty
Manufacturer’s figures: Cornelius launch announcement (2 April 2026) and acsd.cornelius.com. Marmon Foodservice Technologies is part of Marmon Holdings, a Berkshire Hathaway company.
Drive-thru bottleneck scorecard
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Cornelius’s full scorecard returns an A, B or C readiness segment and a shareable report. Your answers travel with your application.