Sweetened tea, "energy drinks," sweetened waters.
Not merely "flavored" waters.
The fill-it-yourself places will continue. There's the option of taxing the syrup before it's mixed--heck, you can't take delivery of the syrup without paying the tax, and the distributor collects it from the dealer. The tax would almost certainly be distributed, making the cost just go up for everybody.
The most disturbing bit was where a councilperson said that by imposing the tax they're investing in schools. No, by imposing the tax they're increasing revenue. The actual investment in schools, should it occur, is a year or more away and will require a different legislative act. But since this bill defines "sugar sweetened" as including anything sweetened with aspartame or sucralose or stevia, well, it's obvious they need a dictionary.
I wonder if one of them goes up to his honey and says, "Give me some sugar" she'd hand him an inflatable doll. "Here, synthetic or the real thing, you think both are sugar."