The VAT Rise ate my Chicken

Tuesday night... community committee meeting spent on a school bench... one of those things sadistic PE teachers turn upside down and make you balance on... sat in a draft and facing the same old brick wall  known as a lack of common sense. Needless to say, when the meeting eventually finished and we were about to head home, KFC was pretty spectacularly appealing, especially as neither Steve nor I had eaten before heading out. So off we puttered down to the local KFC and asked for a £9.99 Bargain Bucket.

It wasn't immediately obvious what the chap the otherside of the window was trying to say but we eventually figured out that he was reminding us about the VAT increase. The £9.99 Bargain Bucket is no longer the £9.99 Bargain Bucket it is now the 8 Piece Bucket. Fair enough... but £10.99? Really? Four times the actual VAT increase? What a cheek! Are they really that desperate to have products that end in 99p?

So, while the likes of the furniture and kitchen places, where a 2.5% increase is rather more of an item, offer to pay the VAT for you, KFC whacks a whopping 10% on the price.

At least they had the decency to throw in a selection of sauces for free. :o)