UK Menu Price Index

Demo edition

UK Menu Price Index — demo edition: 200 venues and 3780 priced items this week. Figures shown are illustrative; live values are for subscribers.

Demo figures — illustrative, not live

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£5.75

Median (demo)

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£3.50 – £8.75

Lower / upper quartile (demo)

200

Venues

3780

Priced items

+0.8% week on week (demo)+3.4% year on year (demo)

Median price trend — demo series

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Subscribers see the live weekly series with quartile bands and venue counts, plus dish-level movers.

Dish movers — week on week (demo)

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What this index prices

Every priced menu item that matches one of DishMark's dish families (pub classics, fish & chips, burgers, pizza, Indian and Chinese takeaway staples, kebabs, Italian dishes and café staples) across all venue types. Drinks are limited to coffee and tea.

Sample of the basket (4 of 15 items shown, demo prices):

Chips · 37 venues · £2.75Gravy · 31 venues · £1.75Sticky Toffee Pudding · 25 venues · £7.25Cheese & Onion Pie · 24 venues · £3.25

Demo edition. Live medians, quartiles, week/year movement, the full basket, all 103 dish benchmarks, history and PDF/Excel downloads are available to subscribers only. Subscribe to receive the full edition by email weekly or monthly for 12 months and unlock this page.

Dish benchmarks demo sample

Showing 5 of 103 dishes with illustrative figures. Subscribers see every dish with live medians and quartiles.

Dish	Median (demo)	Quartiles (demo)	Venues
Chips	£4.75	£3.50 – £6.25	108
Pie (steak / chicken)	£4	£2.75 – £11.75	82
Sausage (battered)	£3.75	£2.25 – £6.75	81
Sausage (plain)	£3.75	£2.25 – £6.75	81
Fries	£4.50	£3.75 – £6.50	75

Official comparison. ONS CPI restaurants & cafés annual inflation (2026 SEP): +1.3% (previous month 1.3%).

Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0

Establishments: Food Standards Agency (OGL v3.0). Inflation comparison: ONS (OGL v3.0). Menu prices, classification and indexes © DishMark.