Aussies, how can people afford?

It's not only KFC. Maccas and fish and chips are also expensive. If you took a family of four it would certainly add up to over $30 dollars. After airline food you need a fill up, so I can see why it was so tempting. Once in a while isn't a crime, every day, now that's when you would have to wonder.

Good question. I bought KFC here in Vietnam last night. The good thing about this place is they let you choose what parts you want. I hate thighs and legs and usually get the breast, half rib and the wings. They're having a special at the moment. 6 pieces for 99'000 dong. ($5.75 Aust.) I got 6 pieces, I king size french fries, 1 jumbo potato and gravy, and one large Pepsi for 200'000 dong ($11 Aust.) Looking at what you paid its not as cheap as I thought it would be given 80% of the country earn $100-$150 a month. Fast food is really taking off over here. Starbucks is always crowded when I go to Saigon, there are KFCs everywhere, Lotteria, Gloria Jeans, Pizza Hut, and now McDonald's is about to open its first franchise.

$11.00 for 3 pieces of chicken and mashed spuds is ridiculous. Especially when a sit down meal at an Asian restaurant costs about $20/pp.

Even any club is comparatively cheaper, or as the so very rude Traveller of the Skies mentioned, a pub meal.

Yet people still go there! Incomprehensible really.

Everything sold at the airport costs an arm and a leg - even KFC. If you want cheap fast food then buy it on the way home and not in the airport mall.

open door: it's marketing that attracts customer, in the case of fast food mainly kids and youngsters. to me the question is: can we agree with the terrible quality? me, i haven't eaten at a mac in maybe 12 or 13 years. i did go to some similar, burger king or something, the other day and it was terrible. mi left a half eaten cheese burger to the rats under the tables. nut my daughter thinks the food is good because she gets a toy or what.

When you think about it, you can't really cook some chicken and mashed spuds and make gravy and chips plus wash up for $11.

Granted, the food will likely give ya a heart attack but you did get it nice and quick.

I guess i'm a braindead saddo.

Yet KFC will make only a tiny profit from the sale because we have some of the highest wages and taxes in the world.

You can only afford that chicken at Woolies because they have those "self-service" checkouts, if they still had actual people on the checkouts it would cost $14

Imagine taking a family out to that place for a meal. I don't know how parents can afford to. I certainly can't and both my partner and I have good jobs. We limit our eating out to a local Italian or Vietnamese restaurant once/month.

I thought today was cheap Tuesday and you could get 9 pieces of chicken for like 10 bux?

It's not something you buy everyday. It's obviously bought at times when you obviously can't make your own food. I never buy take away, except when I travel down to Sydney - which is three hours from my own kitchen!