Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters

The Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters is a location in the Mojave Wasteland. It was the headquarters of the Sunset Sarsaparilla Company before the Great War. It is located northwest of El Rey Motel and directly west of the NCR sharecropper farms.

Background
This pre-War building was the headquarters of a beverage and bottling company in Las Vegas. It is one of the largest buildings in the area and housed corporate offices as well as the regional bottling and distribution center. The building's most notable feature is the giant bottle that also acts as the main entrance into the facility.

Layout
Entering the factory, to the left is Festus, a cowboy robot who asks for Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps. Asking him "Star Info" reveals the contest and triggers the quest The Legend of the Star.

Another terminal activates a maintenance robot, Mr. Janitor, who collects bottle caps around the factory, and then disposes of them in a garbage can by the maintenance office he is found in. He gathers a total of over 550 bottle caps. There are three Sunset Sarsaparilla Security protections with one on the first floor initially, another is circling around the restroom section on the second floor, and one on the railings overseeing the bottling area.

On the first floor, there is a Very Hard locked door. Access requires going up one staircase and down another. Within that room is some scrap metal, miscellaneous toolbox items, and a terminal with status reports on the plant's various robots. There is also a miniature empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle on the shelf behind/inside of the barrel. There is a second Very Hard locked door down here, but the door is clearly swung open and would have otherwise led to a room of rubble. Opening it earns experience, but nothing else.

In the shipping room, there is an Average locked terminal. Activating the terminal reveals a discussion regarding an experimental delivery robot that was reportedly single-handedly running all the distribution in the Vegas area. In the bottling room, there is a lone surviving bottling robot. When talking to it, it first talks as if the Courier would be its master. But after realizing this is not the case, it becomes hostile and attacks. If a companion discovers it first, it will instantly become hostile.

The furthest room in the back on the second level factory floor has a safe, an Average locked terminal, and a hole in the floor leading to a door that remains locked until Festus is given 50 star bottle caps.

Notable loot

 * Pew Pew and a holotape - Next to the dead body of Allen Marks, in the Sunset Sarsaparilla vault during the quest A Valuable Lesson. There are about 100+ caps in each of the crates in this room, for a total of about 1,435 bottle caps.
 * Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap - In an Average locked wall safe in Miss Paige's office.
 * Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles - There are about 67 full bottles in crates behind the active bottling robot, and about 15 more bottles outside the headquarters on the righthand side of the building behind some trucks.
 * There are over 900 empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles throughout the building. They can be used for making purified water if the Sink is activated in Old World Blues.
 * In Marcus Brody's room, behind a Very Hard locked door, there is a smaller variant of an empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle next to a small barrel on top of a shelf. It is the only one in the game.
 * 319 Sunset Sarsaparilla deputy badges - In the storage room with Allen Marks.

Related quests

 * A Valuable Lesson
 * Classic Inspiration
 * Pressing Matters
 * The Legend of the Star

Appearances
The Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes
The Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters is based on the real world location of the Cola Cola Store and Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, which features a large, many-faceted, three-story soda bottle that serves as the main entrance.

Bugs

 * For no apparent reason, occasionally Festus will be turned around. On the back of his box, there are various tags and stickers.
 * Fast traveling to this location will occasionally force the game to remain frozen on the loading screen, making it continuously load.