[jambutty]

Are there no limits to what some businesses will do to earn that bit extra?

Picture the scene at Kentucky near Queens Park Hospital in Blackburn.

I walk in and join a short queue and when it comes my turn a pimply youth asks:
“What would you like?”
“Two piece meal please” was my response holding out three one pound coins.
“What do you want to drink?”
“None thank you.”
“That’ll be £3.19.” came the reply.
“Pardon?”
“That’ll be £3.19.”
“I order a two piece meal and that is £2.99.”
“But you didn’t want a drink so your order was for 2 pieces and a portion of chips and that is £3.19.”
“In that case I’ll have the drink.”
“That’ll be £2.99 sir” without a flinch of expression on pimply youth’s face.
“Two piece meal?” shouted a young girl and passed the bag over to me as I indicated that I was to be the recipient of the meal. Pimply youth passed over the drink.
“Anyone want a free drink” I asked the queue.
No one responded.
I passed the drink back to pimply youth saying “I don’t want the drink and no one here wants it either so you may as well pour it down the sink” and walked out.

It wasn’t all that long ago, maybe a year or two, when a two piece meal included either a drink, barbecue beans or cole slaw. Today it is drink only and if you don’t want one they charge you an extra 20p for not having a drink.

To be fair though on previous occasions when pimply youth wasn’t serving, I would be asked if I wanted large chips instead of the drink.