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Almost every McDonald's, KFC, and Subway location you've ever visited is independently owned. That single fact explains most of the price differences you'll notice between branches of the exact same chain.

3 September 2026

While re-checking our own pricing data, we found two chains that had genuinely stopped operating in countries we cover — Taco Bell in Mexico and Domino's in Italy. Neither exit made much noise. Here's what we found.

3 September 2026

The one KFC item you'd expect to compare cleanly across countries — the bucket — turns out to be one of the hardest, because the format itself changes by market. Here's what we found instead.

3 September 2026

Using our own verified menu data across nine countries, we compared McDonald's and Burger King's flagship burgers directly. The Whopper is pricier almost everywhere — except one country, where it's actually the cheaper of the two.

3 September 2026

Where our prices actually come from, why some pages have only a handful of items instead of a full menu, and what we do when we can't confirm a number.

3 September 2026

We built a Big Mac Index-style comparison from our own verified menu data. Here's how it works, and the two honest caveats that come with comparing prices across currencies and menu formats.

3 September 2026