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UK Menu Price Index

Proprietary weekly indexes built from menu prices DishMark observes on venues' own websites — every figure with a venue count and evidence trail — compared against official ONS restaurant & café inflation. Each index page shows a free demo edition; subscribers receive the full edition (medians, quartiles, basket, dish benchmarks, history, PDF & Excel) by email weekly or monthly for 12 months.

Single index
monthly edition
£149 /yr ex VAT
12 editions · 12-month term
Single index
weekly edition
£349 /yr ex VAT
52 editions · 12-month term
All indexes
monthly edition
£499 /yr ex VAT
12 editions · 12-month term
All indexes
weekly edition
£1,199 /yr ex VAT
52 editions · 12-month term

UK Burger Price Index
Demo
40 venues · 52 priced items · week 2026-W44

A beef burger main (single patty, standard build) at pubs, restaurants, burger bars and takeaways; sides not included.

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UK Children's Menu Price Index
Demo
27 venues · 80 priced items · week 2026-W44

Items explicitly labelled for children (kids' meals, children's menu mains) across all venue types.

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UK Coffee Price Index
Demo
30 venues · 45 priced items · week 2026-W44

A regular latte at cafés, coffee shops, restaurants and pubs; iced, flavoured and alternative-milk variants excluded.

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UK Curry Price Index
Demo
87 venues · 383 priced items · week 2026-W44

Curry mains at pubs, restaurants and takeaways — chicken tikka masala, korma, bhuna, madras, balti, jalfrezi, house curries and katsu curry; curry sauces and sides excluded.

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UK Fish & Chips Price Index
Demo
147 venues · 1534 priced items · week 2026-W44

A portion of fish and chips (cod or haddock with chips, regular or large) from fish & chip shops, pubs, cafés and restaurants.

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UK Food-to-Go Price Index
Demo
108 venues · 452 priced items · week 2026-W44

Food-to-go staples — sausage roll, steak bake, breakfast and bacon rolls, sandwiches, baguettes, wraps, salad boxes, soup, flat white, latte, americano and the meal deal — at bakeries, sandwich and coffee chains (Greggs, Pret, Leon, Costa, Starbucks, Caffè Nero, Gail's, Upper Crust and independents). The headline is the median of every priced food-to-go item; each staple is tracked separately.

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UK Full English Breakfast Price Index
Demo
16 venues · 21 priced items · week 2026-W44

A full English breakfast (bacon, sausage, egg, beans, toast and trimmings) at cafés, pubs, hotels and restaurants; children's and 'mini' breakfasts excluded.

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UK Menu Price Index
Demo
200 venues · 3780 priced items · week 2026-W44

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.

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UK Pizza Price Index
Demo
39 venues · 104 priced items · week 2026-W44

Pizza staples — margherita and pepperoni (all sizes), garlic bread and dough balls — at pizzerias, Italian restaurants and takeaways.

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UK Pub Deals & Set-Menu Price Index
Demo
138 venues · 485 priced items · week 2026-W44

Promotions, special offers and discounts published on venues' own menus — meal deals, set and lunch menus, happy hours, percentage discounts, loyalty schemes, kids-eat-free and themed nights — across pubs, restaurants, cafés and takeaways. The headline price is the median of explicitly priced meal deals and set menus; the index also tracks the share of venues running any offer and the offer-type mix.

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UK Pub Price Index
Demo
68 venues · 247 priced items · week 2026-W44

Pub classics on the menus of pubs, bars and inns: fish and chips, steak and ale pie, Sunday roast, bangers and mash, beef burger, ham egg and chips, lasagne, chicken curry, scampi, sirloin steak, soup of the day and sticky toffee pudding.

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UK Restaurant Dessert Price Index
Demo
33 venues · 38 priced items · week 2026-W44

Sticky toffee pudding, the most consistently listed British dessert, at pubs and restaurants.

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UK Steak Price Index
Demo
42 venues · 104 priced items · week 2026-W44

A steak main — sirloin, rump, ribeye, fillet or flat iron (typically 8–10oz with chips or fries) — at pubs, steakhouses and restaurants; pies, sandwiches, gammon and fish steaks excluded.

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UK Sunday Roast Price Index
Demo
38 venues · 96 priced items · week 2026-W44

A roast dinner main — Sunday roast, roast beef, chicken, pork, lamb or turkey, carvery or nut roast (with roast potatoes, vegetables and gravy) — at pubs, restaurants and carveries; children's, sharing, sandwich, drinks-inclusive and set-menu variants excluded.

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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
Hospitality company formations

4,133 new UK hospitality companies incorporated in the last 30 days (3,508 dissolved; net +625) — DishMark analysis of Companies House data.

Licensed restaurants
+772
−703
Unlicensed restaurants & cafés
+967
−755
Takeaway food shops & mobile stands
+1,843
−1,558
Public houses & bars
+551
−492
Companies House data, Open Government Licence v3.0. Registered office ≠ trading address.

Latest insights

Menu prices by town

Offers, meal deals and set menus by town

Share of venues with usable menus publishing at least one offer this week — click a town for the offer mix and sample deals.

City comparisons

Weekly insights by email

Every Monday: the week's index headlines, medians, venue counts and ONS comparison — free to quote with attribution. Journalists welcome.

Data sources & licences

DishMark combines free, legally reusable public data with its own menu collection. Public sources stay attributed to their publishers; the classification, matching, longitudinal database, indexes and analysis are DishMark's proprietary layer.

SourceUsed forUpdateLicence
Food Standards Agency (FHRS)Establishment register: name, type, address, postcode, coordinates, hygiene ratingLiveOGL v3.0
Companies HouseHospitality incorporations & dissolutions by SIC 56101/56102/56103/56302 and region; venue-level ownership matching (independent vs group-owned, company age)WeeklyOGL v3.0
ONS / Nomis — UK Business CountsOfficial counts of restaurants, cafés, takeaways and pubs per local authority (local units, SIC 56101/56102/56103/56302)Weekly refresh, annual dataOGL v3.0
ONSCPI restaurants & cafés inflation comparisonMonthlyOGL v3.0
ONS Open Geography / postcodes.ioPostcode districts, local authorities, town resolutionRegularOGL v3.0
OpenStreetMapMap display layer only — kept separate from the core venue databaseContinuousODbL (attribution)
DishMark collectionMenu items, portions, observed prices, evidence snippets, price changes, history — recorded as factual fields from venues' own public menus, robots.txt respectedWeekly / per run© DishMark

Planned: local-authority licensing open data, ONS Business Insights & Conditions Survey.

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