PURPOSE: To speedily and easily pour raw material from a discharge port at the upper end of a raw material replenishing container into the raw material container through a pouring port which is formed at the upper end part of the raw material container for storing the raw material of beverage to be sold and whose opening surface faces upward without dropping it around even if a free space is small on the upper side of the raw material container in a machine and to execute other necessary work in parallel using replenishing raw material.

CONSTITUTION: A holding device 40 provided with a holding tool 35 where an abutting part 38 on which the end surface of the discharge port 10 of the raw material replenishing container 9 inserted into the pouring port 33 having size into which at least a part of the raw material replenishing container can freely attachably and detachably be inserted into an inner side from the discharge port 10 and held by the peripheral part of the pouring port 33 is abutted, is formed and upper/lower surfaces are opened and with an engagement mechanism 39 engaging the raw material replenishing container 9 inserted into the pouring port 33 through the peripheral edge part of the pouring port 33 with the raw material container. Then, the device mutually adjusts the opening surfaces of the pouring port 33 and the discharge port 10 and freely attachably and detachably holds the raw material replenishing container 9 to the raw material container 29.