More price info!

October 11, 2007 5:49 AM

[Big Mac meal price filter] I need to how much a regular Big Mac meal costs in different cities around the world. Long list of cities inside!

I need to how much a normal (not super-sized) Big Mac meal costs in the cities listed below; preferably in local currency. I’ve been to the local McDonald’s websites. Thanks!

Ankara
Bratislava
Budapest
Chisinau
Istanbul
Ljubljana
Riga
Skopje
Sofia
Tallinn
Varna
Vilnius
Almaty
Baku
Kiev
Minsk
Moscow
St Petersburg
Volgograd

posted by juva to food & drink (10 comments total)

This is what you want (img).
posted by Aloysius Bear at 5:53 AM on October 11, 2007

You probably already know about The Big Mac Index.
posted by fatllama at 5:54 AM on October 11, 2007

To elaborate: the data are collected by The Economist and McDonald's, and the dataset in the link above is from 2007. I would guess that the price of a Big Mac does not vary very much between cities in the same country.
posted by Aloysius Bear at 5:55 AM on October 11, 2007

I've seen the prices from The Economist's Big Mac Index but, unfortunately, I need the price of the whole meal (Big Mac, fries and soda) and not just the burger.

Thanks anyway!
posted by juva at 6:22 AM on October 11, 2007

What degree of accuracy do you need? You could make a good estimate by working out the scale factor between the price of a burger and the price of a meal in the US, and scaling the price of the burger in other countries by that amount.
posted by Aloysius Bear at 6:31 AM on October 11, 2007

Slight hijack - Why are Bic Macs so expensive in the US, relative to other menu items? The economist lists a US Big Mac at $3.41(!!), 341% of the price of the stuff on the dollar menu. However, in other countries, Big Macs seem to be around 120% or so (ex. China Big Mac: 11rmb, Fish sandwich: 10). I'm guessing this is a marketing thing? I can't make sense of it though. /hijack
posted by bluejayk at 6:48 AM on October 11, 2007

Call McDonald's and ask. I've had to do similar research (the cost of a something-I-forget from Starbucks), and they didn't mind giving me the information.
posted by The corpse in the library at 6:48 AM on October 11, 2007

This is for work, right? (Or are you just fascinated by international prices?) Call McDonald's in each city and ask them. The web sites list phone numbers. Then bill your client for the cost of the calls.
posted by pracowity at 6:54 AM on October 11, 2007

Why are Big Macs so expensive in the US, relative to other menu items?

I think the dollar menu throws all the other prices out! Here in Australia we don't have a dollar menu, which means the Big Mac is priced more or less the same as all the other burgers...
posted by ranglin at 6:57 AM on October 11, 2007

This is for work, right?
This is Economics 101 homework, is what this is.
posted by bonaldi at 9:16 AM on October 11, 2007