KFC 1/2 Gallon Drink

The KFC 1/2 Gallon Drink costs $3.99 and carries 0-910 cal depending on what goes in it. KFC describes it as a jug of iced tea or lemonade rather than a fountain soda, and it exists for the same reason the buckets do: a table of four ordering separately spends more than a table ordering together.

The arithmetic is the whole argument. Four individual cups at $2.99 each cost considerably more than one jug at $3.99, and the jug holds more than four cups. The calorie range is wide for the same reason, because Unsweet Tea in the jug sits at the bottom of it and Sweet Tea at the top. On a Family Meals menu order this is the piece people most often forget to add, and it is where the biggest single saving on a family bill sits.