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A field guide to fast-food value

Which fast-food icon does the most with a dollar?

We put the Baconator, Big Mac, Crunchwrap, ShackBurger, and ten other famous orders on one field—using average prices across the locations we track.

Enter a U.S. ZIP code or city and state to see tracked stores nearby.

See the flagship rankingTest your price instincts

The flagship field

Fourteen icons. One dollar. Two honest answers.

Toggle the graph between calories per dollar and protein per dollar. The average listed price stays beside every item, so the number doing the work never disappears.

This field compares exact serving definitions. Multi-piece, sub, and pizza orders remain whole listed items rather than being disguised as identical portions.

Building the flagship field…

Loading one cached national snapshot of the exact items and their latest clean store listings.

The price instinct test

Can your gut beat the receipt?

Pick the better value before the numbers appear. Then see the tracked averages, sample, observation window, and exact route into a longer showdown.

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Warm-up here
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Some questions ask which listing costs less. Others ask what one dollar buys. Every reveal keeps those questions separate.

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From menu boards to one field

A national view is the opening question—not your receipt.

The flagship ranking reveals the broad field. Your nearby store can still move the answer, which is why the method preserves every location-specific price underneath the average.

Find the answer near youInspect every store listing

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    Pin the exact order

    A Big Mac is not a meal. A Single ShackBurger is not a Double. Reviewed canonical names prevent look-alike substitutions.

  2. 02

    Keep one current row per store

    Each tracked location contributes its latest clean listed price for that exact canonical item.

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    Calculate value at the store

    Reported calories or protein are divided by that location’s price. Unknown nutrition is left out of only that metric.

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    Average the store results

    Every tracked U.S. location receives equal weight. The result describes our coverage, not a population-weighted national sticker price.

Keep following the question

Go local, go exhaustive, or call the matchup yourself.

01Build a comparisonPut familiar items, chains, cities, or exact nearby-store listings head to head without hiding missing nutrition.02Find value near youSearch a city, ZIP code, address, or tracked chain. Browse the map and its keyboard-accessible ranked list together.03Rank every menuSort store-specific prices by calorie value, protein value, lowest price, or most protein.

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Scope
Flagship results are unweighted averages across tracked U.S. locations, not universal national menu prices.
Unknowns
Missing or serving-inconsistent nutrition stays unknown and never becomes a measured zero.
Freshness
A shared snapshot cache avoids repeating the national rollup while its source dates stay visible.