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soda cooler in restaurant lobby qhere customer come to order and not within six feet of sink and not in Kitchen. Does the soda cooler receptacle required to be on gfci?

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soda cooler in restaurant lobby qhere customer come to order and not within six feet of sink and not in Kitchen. Does the soda cooler receptacle required to be on gfci?

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Is it listed as a vending machine? 422.5(A)(5)
 
We had that discussion here a while back while still under the '14 Code and there was a definition in 422.2 that lead me to believe the dispenser was a vending machine and thus needed GFCI based on 422.51 but upon further investigation I had to eat crow due to:

"Per UL Standards and Categories, it is a Beverage Coolers and Beverage Cooler-Dispensers covered by UL Product Category SFWY and evaluated to UL 471, "Commercial Refrigerators and Freezers".

http://productspec.ul.com/document.php?id=SFWY.GuideInfo"

It appears the '17 Code has dropped both 422.2 and 422.51 replacing it with new wording in 422.5 which includes "vending machines" but the UL text remains the same noting a soda dispenser is not a vending machine so it seesm it will fall back to whether the macjine in question falls under UL SFWY or not
 
The soda dispensers with which I am familiar have wall-wart power supplies and don't need GFCI protection..
 
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