A point-of-sale custom color system for tinting base paints and stains includes an array of water-only fluid colorants and at least one synergist containing, primarily or exclusively, one or more ingredients that will disperse the water-only colorants into solvent-borne base paints or stains. The one or more water-only colorants provides a compatibly tinted base paint or stain.

A beverage dispensing unit is provided. The beverage dispensing unit may include an upper cabinet configured to house a first plurality of beverage containers, a cold beverage chassis, a hot beverage chassis, and one or more user interfaces configured to receive a beverage request from a user, a lower cabinet configured to house a second plurality of beverage containers, a flash heater including a boiler configured to heat water and one or more beverage coils configured to be submerged in the hot water to heat one or more beverages respectively disposed in the beverage coils, a cold exchange unit containing a water tank and a second beverage coil contained within the water tank to chill a beverage contained with the beverage coil, and a flash chiller configured to chill water and circulate cold water to the cold exchange unit to fill the water tank.

Introduced here are systems for customized formulation and production of cleaning products and associated methods for using those systems. A system may include a computer-implemented platform (also referred to as a formulation platform or production platform) that is communicatively connected to an interactive dispensing machine responsible for making cleaning products. An individual or company may be permitted to select, create, or modify formulas via the production platform, while the interactive dispensing machine can produce cleaning products in accordance with those formulas.

A mixing funnel for mixing fluids is provided. In one embodiment, the mixing funnel includes a tray having a fluid inlet arranged to receive a primary fluid flow, and first and second fluid passages configured to receive primary fluid flow from the fluid inlet such that the flow is divided to flow along the first and second fluid passages. The first and second fluid passages can be arranged to direct the primary fluid flow to a mixing area. The tray can further include a fluid outlet arranged to receive the primary fluid flow from the mixing area and to deliver the fluid to a container.