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The McDonald’s breakfast menu runs 23 items nationwide across five formats, and the whole thing disappears at 10:30am on weekdays. This page lists every item served at McDonald’s breakfast menu with Prices in August 2026, in the USA with a current price and calorie count, from the McMuffin line that anchors the menu to the bagels and platters that only some restaurants carry. It covers breakfast only, the rest of the board is on our full McDonald’s menu with prices. Prices are our recorded national midpoint, because breakfast is set by each franchise owner rather than centrally.
If you already know what you want, the jump links below go straight to that section. If you are deciding, the value section near the bottom ranks every item by calories per dollar, which is the fastest way to see what the menu is actually worth.
Items priced
45
Cheapest Item
$1.99
Best value pick
Sausage Biscuit
Ends weekdays
10:30am
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Most restaurants serve breakfast from around 5:00am until 10:30am on weekdays and 11:00am at weekends. There is no all day breakfast, and once the grill switches over you cannot order any item on this page. Ordering ahead in the app locks your order at the time you place it, which buys you a few minutes if you are close to the cutoff.
Start times, weekend differences, holiday hours and why franchises vary are all on McDonald’s breakfast hours.
Every breakfast item in one table, sorted by price. This is the quick reference. The sections below break the same items into their five formats with the detail that decides which one you actually want. Availability tells you whether an item is nationwide or restricted to participating restaurants, which is the column no other breakfast price guide publishes.
| Item | Price | Cal | Available |
|---|---|---|---|
Fruit & Maple Oatmeal |
$1.99 | 320 | Nationwide |
Sausage Biscuit |
$2.49 | 460 | Nationwide |
Plain Bagel |
$2.69 | 270 | Select |
Hash Browns |
$2.69 | 140 | Nationwide |
Sausage Burrito |
$2.99 | 310 | Nationwide |
Steak Biscuit |
$3.19 | 430 | Regional |
Sausage Gravy Biscuit |
$3.29 | 530 | Regional |
Sausage McMuffin |
$3.49 | 400 | Nationwide |
Egg & Cheese Bagel |
$4.19 | 520 | Select |
Egg McMuffin |
$4.29 | 310 | Nationwide |
Sausage McGriddles |
$4.29 | 430 | Nationwide |
Egg & Cheese Biscuit |
$4.29 | 370 | Nationwide |
Honey Brown Butter Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit |
$4.49 | 490 | Limited |
Sausage Biscuit with Egg |
$4.59 | 530 | Nationwide |
Sausage McMuffin with Egg |
$4.79 | 480 | Nationwide |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles |
$5.19 | 430 | Nationwide |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit |
$5.29 | 460 | Nationwide |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bagel |
$5.59 | 590 | Select |
Hotcakes |
$5.69 | 580 | Nationwide |
Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles |
$5.79 | 550 | Nationwide |
Sausage, Egg & Cheese Bagel |
$5.79 | 710 | Select |
Hotcakes and Sausage |
$6.19 | 770 | Nationwide |
Big Breakfast |
$6.79 | 760 | Nationwide |
Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel |
$6.79 | 680 | Select |
Big Breakfast with Hotcakes |
$8.29 | 1,340 | Nationwide |
Printable version on McDonald’s menu PDF. Full board on McDonald’s menu with prices.
The McMuffin line is the cheapest way into the breakfast menu and the most consistently available. All three are built on the same toasted English muffin, and the price steps track exactly what you add: sausage patty, then egg, then both. The Egg McMuffin is the only one made with a freshly cracked round egg rather than the folded egg used elsewhere on the menu, which is why it holds heat better than any other sandwich here and why it is worth ordering last if you are collecting a large order.
|
ITEM
|
PRICE
|
kcal
CALORIES
|
|---|---|---|
| $4.29 | 310 | |
| $3.49 | 400 | |
| $4.79 | 480 | |
| — | — |
Biscuits are the Southern side of the breakfast menu and the heaviest sandwiches on it by fat and sodium. The buttermilk biscuit carries more calories than an English muffin before anything goes inside, which is why a Sausage Biscuit and a Sausage McMuffin land within 60 calories of each other despite the biscuit having no cheese. Worth knowing if you are watching sodium: the biscuit line runs 300 to 570mg higher per sandwich than the McMuffin equivalents.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | SODIUM |
|---|---|---|---|
Sausage Biscuit
Sausage patty on a buttermilk biscuit. Often on the Under $3 menu
|
$2.49 | 460 | 1,090 mg |
Sausage Biscuit with Egg
Adds a folded egg
|
$4.59 | 530 | 1,190 mg |
Egg & Cheese Biscuit
Meat free option
|
$4.29 | 370 | 870 mg |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit
Applewood smoked bacon, folded egg, American cheese
|
$5.29 | 460 | 1,330 mg |
Honey Brown Butter Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit
Limited time. Honey brown butter glaze on the biscuit
|
$4.49 | 490 | 1,290 mg |
McGriddles replace the bun with two maple-flavoured griddle cakes, and that swap is the whole point: the sweetness is baked into the bread rather than added as syrup, so it stays put and does not soak through. The trade-off is carbohydrate. A Sausage McGriddles carries 41g of carbs against 29g for the same filling on an English muffin. They also cool faster than any other sandwich here, so this is the one to eat first if you are ordering several.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | CARBS |
|---|---|---|---|
Sausage McGriddles
Sausage patty between two griddle cakes
|
$4.29 | 430 | 41g |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles
Bacon, folded egg and cheese
|
$5.19 | 430 | 44g |
Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles
The full build and the heaviest of the three
|
$5.79 | 550 | 44g |
Every variant on McGriddle price
Bagel Sandwich are the part of the breakfast menu most people do not realize still exists. They were pulled nationally in 2020 and returned only at participating restaurants, so they never appear on the board at locations that do not carry them. They are also the premium tier: the Steak, Egg and Cheese Bagel is the most expensive breakfast sandwich on the menu and, at 34g, the highest in protein of anything here. Check the app before making a trip for one, since availability is genuinely patchy rather than nominally so
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | PROTEIN |
|---|---|---|---|
Plain Bagel
Toasted with butter. The cheapest item in this section
|
$2.69 | 270 | 9g |
Egg & Cheese Bagel
Meat free. Folded egg, cheese and breakfast sauce
|
$4.19 | 520 | 21g |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bagel
Applewood smoked bacon with breakfast sauce
|
$5.59 | 590 | 25g |
Sausage, Egg & Cheese Bagel
Sausage patty version
|
$5.79 | 710 | 27g |
Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel
Steak patty and grilled onions. Highest protein on the breakfast menu
|
$6.79 | 680 | 34g |
Platters are the only breakfast items served on a tray rather than wrapped, and they are the reason the calorie range on this menu is so wide. Hotcakes on their own are already the highest carbohydrate item on the board at 101g, and the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes combines them with eggs, sausage, a biscuit and a hash brown to reach 1,340 calories, which is more than four times an Egg McMuffin. Treat it as a full meal rather than something to pair with a coffee and a side.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | CARBS |
|---|---|---|---|
Hotcakes
Three pancakes with syrup and whipped butter
|
$5.69 | 580 | 101g |
Hotcakes and Sausage
Adds a sausage patty
|
$6.19 | 770 | 102g |
Big Breakfast
Scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuit and hash brown
|
$6.79 | 760 | 57g |
Big Breakfast with Hotcakes
The above plus three hotcakes. Highest calorie item on the menu
|
$8.29 | 1,340 | 158g |
Sizes and variants on Hotcakes price and Big Breakfast price.
Three items sit outside the sandwich formats entirely. Hash browns are the default side and the only one that comes with a combo. The Sausage Burrito is the cheapest hot item on the whole breakfast menu and the only one you can eat one handed while driving. The Fruit and Maple Oatmeal is the outlier: at 150mg it carries less than a fifth of the sodium of any sandwich here, which makes it the clear pick if salt rather than calories is what you are managing.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | SODIUM |
|---|---|---|---|
Hash Browns
The standard combo side. Ask for no salt and they cook a fresh batch
|
$2.69 | 140 | 310mg |
Sausage Burrito
Eggs, sausage, cheese, green chiles and onions in a tortilla
|
$2.99 | 310 | 800mg |
Fruit & Maple Oatmeal
Lowest sodium item on the breakfast menu
|
$1.99 | 320 | 150mg |
A McDonald’s breakfast combo adds hash browns and a small Premium Roast coffee to any sandwich. The saving against buying all three separately runs between 90 cents and $1.30 on most combos, which is close to the cost of the coffee. Where it stops working is if you do not drink coffee: substituting juice or a soft drink carries a 60 to 90 cent upcharge that erases the saving, and at that point the sandwich plus hash browns bought separately comes out lower.
| COMBO MEAL | PRICE | CAL | VS SEPARATE |
|---|---|---|---|
Egg McMuffin Meal |
$8.19 | 750 | Save $1.08 |
Sausage McMuffin with Egg Meal |
$8.99 | 920 | Save $0.78 |
Sausage Biscuit with Egg Meal |
$8.49 | 970 | Save $1.08 |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Meal |
$8.99 | 900 | Save $1.28 |
Sausage McGriddles Meal |
$8.19 | 870 | Save $1.08 |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles Meal |
$8.89 | 870 | Save $1.28 |
Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles Meal |
$9.29 | 990 | Save $1.48 |
Sausage Burrito Meal
Two burritos, not one
|
$8.09 | 760 | Save $1.87 |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bagel Meal |
$9.29 | 1,030 | Save $1.28 |
Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel Meal |
$10.99 | 1,120 | Save $0.78 |
Drink substitution upcharge
Juice, soft drink or larger coffee
|
$0.60+ | — | — |
| All combos across the menu on McDonald’s combo meals | |||
Breakfast has its own value structure separate from the lunch McValue menu, and it is the cheapest way to eat here by a wide margin. The $4 Meal Deal bundles a sandwich, hash browns and a small coffee for less than the standard combo. The Under $3 breakfast list covers five items outright. Buy One Add One works differently: you pay a raised price on the first item then get a second for a dollar, which only beats the alternatives if you are feeding two people. Participation varies, so check the app before assuming an offer is running at your restaurant.
| OFFER | PRICE | CALORIES | BEST FOR |
|---|---|---|---|
$4 Meal Deal, Sausage Biscuit
Sandwich, hash browns and small coffee
|
$4.00 | 605 | One person |
$4 Meal Deal, Sausage McMuffin |
$4.00 | 545 | One person |
Under $3: Sausage Biscuit |
$2.49 | 460 | Single item |
Under $3: Sausage McMuffin |
$2.89 | 400 | Single item |
Under $3: Sausage Burrito |
$2.99 | 310 | Single item |
Under $3: Hash Browns |
$2.69 | 140 | Add on |
Under $3: Medium Premium Roast Coffee |
$2.99 | 10 | Add on |
Buy One Add One: Sausage Biscuit
First at raised price, second for $1
|
$4.79 | 920 | Two people |
Buy One Add One: Sausage McMuffin |
$4.67 | 800 | Two people |
Buy One Add One: Sausage Burrito |
$4.67 | 620 | Two people |
Buy One Add One: Hash Browns |
$2.69 | 280 | Two people |
Looking for a simple way to save on your next order? The McDonald’s breakfast deals features current promotions and money-saving offers available at participating locations for you next breakfast order.
The combo coffee is a small Premium Roast, and upgrading it is where breakfast orders quietly get expensive. A medium latte costs more than every sandwich on this menu except the two premium bagels. Premium Roast on its own is frequently the cheapest hot item on the entire McDonald’s board and appears on the Under $3 breakfast list at medium size, which makes a coffee plus a Sausage Burrito one of the lowest cost hot breakfasts available anywhere at $5.98.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | IN COMBO |
|---|---|---|---|
Premium Roast Coffee, small
The default combo drink
|
$1.79 | 5 | Included |
Premium Roast Coffee, medium |
$2.99 | 10 | +$0.60 |
| $2.19 | 190 | +$0.60 | |
Latte, medium |
$4.19 | 190 | +$1.80 |
Orange Juice, medium |
$3.79 | 190 | +$0.90 |
Milk, 1% low fat |
$1.89 | 100 | +$0.60 |
Hot Chocolate, medium |
$4.50 | 440 | +$1.80 |
Full range on mcdonalds coffee menu and McDonalds drinks.
None of these appear on the national breakfast menu, which is why they turn up in search results and then not on the board when you arrive. They are franchise or market specific, concentrated mostly in Southern and Midwestern states, and availability changes without notice. Prices below are what we recorded where they were stocked, not a national figure.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | WHERE |
|---|---|---|---|
Sausage Gravy Biscuit
Biscuit with country sausage gravy
|
$3.29 | 530 | Southern |
Steak Biscuit
Steak patty on a buttermilk biscuit
|
$3.19 | 430 | Southern |
| $5.99 | 610 | Southern | |
| $5.29 | 610 | Select | |
| $5.69 | 430 | Select | |
McChicken Biscuit
Chicken patty on a biscuit
|
$2.79 | 430 | Southern |
English Muffin, plain
Toasted with butter, no filling
|
$2.19 | 160 | Select |
Check the app for your restaurant before planning an order around any of these.
Breakfast gets fewer limited time releases than the lunch menu but they run longer when they arrive. This section is re-checked weekly rather than monthly, because a limited time item priced four weeks ago is usually one that has already gone.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | STATUS |
|---|---|---|---|
Honey Brown Butter Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit
Honey brown butter glaze on the biscuit
|
$4.49 | 490 | Running |
| $10.49 | 620 | Running | |
| $10.79 | 670 | Running | |
| $10.49 | 620 | Running |
Everything currently running on limited time menu and new menu items.
None of these are printed anywhere. You order them by describing the build to the crew, and whether they are made depends on how busy the restaurant is and whether the ingredients are already on the line. All of them are assembled from items that already exist on the menu above, so the price is the sum of the parts rather than a set figure.
| ITEM | PRICE | CALORIES | HOW TO ASK |
|---|---|---|---|
Hash Brown McMuffin
A hash brown inside a Sausage McMuffin with Egg
|
$7.48 | 620 | Order both |
Breakfast Burrito with Hash Brown
Hash brown crumbled into a Sausage Burrito
|
$5.68 | 450 | Order both |
Round Egg Swap
Replace the folded egg with a freshly cracked round egg
|
+$0.50 | +10 | Ask at till |
McGriddles Bun Swap
Any filling between griddle cakes instead of a muffin
|
+$0.80 | +30 | Ask at till |
More off menu builds on McDonald’s secret menu.
Items people still search for that no longer exist nationally. Listing them saves a wasted trip and answers a question none of the other breakfast price guides address. Where a close replacement exists on the current menu it is named.
| ITEM | REMOVED | CLOSEST CURRENT OPTION |
|---|---|---|
All Day Breakfast
A programme rather than an item
|
2020 | Morning hours only |
Fruit & Yogurt Parfait |
2020 | Fruit & Maple Oatmeal |
Bagel sandwiches, nationally |
2020 | Returned at select restaurants |
McSkillet Burrito |
2010 | Sausage Burrito |
Chicken McGriddles
Regional test only
|
2024 | Sausage McGriddles |
Why All Day Breakfast ended, and whether it is coming back, on breakfast hours.
Meal numbers on the drive thru board let you order a full combo in one word. McDonald’s does not standardise breakfast numbering nationally, so the arrangement below is the most common one rather than a guarantee. If the board at your restaurant differs, the item names always work.
| ITEM | PRICE |
|---|---|
Egg McMuffin Meal |
$8.19 |
Sausage McMuffin with Egg Meal |
$8.99 |
Sausage Biscuit with Egg Meal |
$8.49 |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Meal |
$8.99 |
Sausage McGriddles Meal |
$8.19 |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles Meal |
$8.89 |
Big Breakfast |
$6.79 |
Big Breakfast with Hotcakes |
$8.29 |
Hotcakes |
$5.69 |
Sausage Burrito Meal |
$8.09 |
Every figure applies to the standard build. Removing cheese, sauce or the bun changes them, and combo totals depend on which drink you pick. Two patterns are worth knowing before you scan the table: sodium tracks the bread rather than the filling, so biscuits and bagels run highest and oatmeal lowest, and protein tracks the meat, so the steak and sausage builds beat everything else regardless of format.
| ITEM | CAL | PROT | FAT | CARBS | SODIUM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Egg McMuffin |
310 | 17g | 13g | 30g | 770mg |
Sausage McMuffin |
400 | 14g | 26g | 29g | 760mg |
Sausage McMuffin with Egg |
480 | 20g | 31g | 30g | 830mg |
Sausage Biscuit |
460 | 11g | 30g | 37g | 1,090mg |
Sausage Biscuit with Egg |
530 | 17g | 35g | 38g | 1,190mg |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit |
460 | 17g | 26g | 39g | 1,330mg |
Egg & Cheese Biscuit |
370 | 13g | 21g | 33g | 870mg |
Sausage McGriddles |
430 | 11g | 24g | 41g | 1,030mg |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles |
430 | 17g | 21g | 44g | 1,230mg |
Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles |
550 | 19g | 33g | 44g | 1,290mg |
Plain Bagel |
270 | 9g | 3.5g | 51g | 540mg |
Egg & Cheese Bagel |
520 | 21g | 24g | 55g | 1,090mg |
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bagel |
590 | 25g | 30g | 56g | 1,320mg |
Sausage, Egg & Cheese Bagel |
710 | 27g | 42g | 56g | 1,380mg |
Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel |
680 | 34g | 35g | 57g | 1,510mg |
Big Breakfast |
760 | 26g | 48g | 57g | 1,540mg |
Big Breakfast with Hotcakes |
1,340 | 36g | 63g | 158g | 2,070mg |
Hotcakes |
580 | 9g | 15g | 101g | 530mg |
Hotcakes and Sausage |
770 | 15g | 33g | 102g | 810mg |
Sausage Burrito |
310 | 13g | 17g | 25g | 800mg |
Hash Browns |
140 | 2g | 8g | 18g | 310mg |
Fruit & Maple Oatmeal |
320 | 6g | 4.5g | 64g | 150mg |
Full chart for every item on the menu at McDonald’s calories chart. Nutrition on Mcdonald’s nutrition. Allergens on allergen menu.
Sorted by the reason people actually ask, rather than by menu format.
| IF YOU WANT | PICK |
|---|---|
Lowest calorie hot item |
Hash Browns, 140 cal |
Lowest calorie sandwich |
Egg McMuffin, 310 cal |
Most protein per dollar |
Sausage Biscuit, 4.4g per $1 |
Most protein outright |
Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel, 34g |
Lowest sodium |
Fruit & Maple Oatmeal, 150mg |
Cheapest hot breakfast |
Sausage Biscuit, $2.49 |
Meat free |
Egg & Cheese Biscuit, oatmeal, hotcakes |
Lower carb |
Any McMuffin ordered without the muffin |
Easiest to eat driving |
Sausage Burrito |
Feeding two cheaply |
Buy One Add One, from $4.67 |
Calories per dollar, calculated from the prices above. No other McDonald’s breakfast guide publishes this, and it answers the cheapest breakfast question better than a price column can, because the lowest priced item is rarely the one that fills you up.
| Item | Price | Cal/$ | Protein/$ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sausage Biscuit | $2.49 | 185 | 4.4g |
| Big Breakfast with Hotcakes | $8.29 | 162 | 4.3g |
| Fruit & Maple Oatmeal | $1.99 | 161 | 3.0g |
| Hotcakes and Sausage | $6.19 | 124 | 2.4g |
| Sausage McMuffin | $3.49 | 115 | 4.0g |
| Big Breakfast | $6.79 | 112 | 3.8g |
| Sausage Burrito | $2.99 | 104 | 4.3g |
| Egg McMuffin | $4.29 | 72 | 4.0g |
| Hash Browns | $2.69 | 52 | 0.7g |
The Sausage Biscuit wins both columns, which makes it the outright best value item on the breakfast menu. If you are eating before the gym rather than filling up, protein per dollar is the column to read, and the Sausage Burrito matches the Big Breakfast at a third of the price.
Breakfast is set by each franchise owner, so a Sausage McMuffin can differ by more than a dollar between two restaurants in the same state. The pattern is consistent: city centre highest, rural lowest, and the gap is widest in proportional terms on the cheap items, because forty cents on a $2.49 biscuit is a bigger swing than a dollar on an $8.29 platter.
| LOCATION TYPE | VS NATIONAL | WIDEST GAP ON |
|---|---|---|
| Rural and small town | −9% | Sausage Biscuit |
| Suburban | −3% | Hash Browns |
| City centre | +14% | Egg McMuffin |
| Airport and highway | +26% | Combo meals |
Twenty three items nationwide across five formats: McMuffins on an English muffin, biscuit sandwiches, McGriddles on maple griddle cakes, bagel sandwiches at participating restaurants, and platters. Hash browns, the Sausage Burrito and Fruit & Maple Oatmeal sit outside those formats. Ten combo meals bundle a sandwich with hash browns and a coffee.
Fruit & Maple Oatmeal at $1.99 is the lowest price outright, and the Sausage Biscuit at $2.49 is the cheapest hot sandwich. By calories per dollar the Sausage Biscuit is the better answer at 185, against 161 for the oatmeal.
It depends which number you are managing. Lowest calorie sandwich is the Egg McMuffin at 310. Lowest sodium by a wide margin is the Fruit & Maple Oatmeal at 150mg, against 770mg for the Egg McMuffin and over 2,000mg for the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes. Highest protein is the Steak, Egg & Cheese Bagel at 34g.
Between 140 and 1,340 depending on what you order. Hash browns are 140, an Egg McMuffin is 310, a Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit is 460, and the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes is 1,340. A combo adds roughly 145 calories for hash browns and coffee.
Your sandwich, hash browns and a small Premium Roast coffee. Swapping the coffee for juice, a soft drink or a larger coffee carries an upcharge from 60 cents, which cancels most of the combo saving.
Bagel sandwiches were removed nationally in 2020 and only returned at participating restaurants. Whether yours carries them is a franchise decision, and locations that do not stock them will not show them on the board at all. Check the app for your restaurant.
Not in the United States. They are prepared with natural beef flavour containing wheat and milk derivatives, and they are cooked in shared fryers. That also means they are not gluten free. McDonald’s US does not promote any menu item as vegetarian, vegan or gluten free.
Yes, and more than most people expect. Around 95 percent of US restaurants are franchisee owned and set their own board. We recorded rural locations running about 9 percent below the national midpoint and airport locations about 26 percent above.
Check Out State by state figures on McDonald’s prices by state Or Check McDonalds’s International Menu.
Most builds can be changed at the kiosk or in the app. Removing cheese, butter or sauce is free. Swapping the folded egg for a freshly cracked round egg carries an upcharge of about 50 cents, and swapping any bun for McGriddles cakes about 80 cents.
Yes, through the app and third party platforms, but only within breakfast hours and only at participating restaurants. Delivery prices run 15 to 25 percent above the figures on this page before fees, so a $4.29 Egg McMuffin lands closer to $5.30.
For More Information on Deliveries by McDonald’s Check Our McDelivery.
Prices shown are based on typical U.S. McDonald’s menu prices as of August 2026 and may vary by location. Check your local restaurant or McDonald’s app for the latest prices.
Timing questions are answered on breakfast hours .
Priya has tracked fast food pricing since 2019. Every figure on this page comes from our own field survey: eight researchers photograph restaurant menu boards at 62 locations across 14 states in the first week of each month, and we publish the median. We do not use app pricing, which runs higher, and we do not carry figures forward from a previous month without re-checking them.