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Fish and chips in Melbourne

What a fish and chip shop menu carries and charges, from the 32 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Burgers, fried chicken and fish and chips.

Menu length

69 dishes

the median; the middle 80% list 33 to 120

Sections

11

on the median menu

The typical dish

$9.95

the median of each menu’s median price, across 32 menus

How long the menus are

Middle half of 32 menus: 46 to 93Median 69Scale stretched at the low end

What most of them carry

Share of menus listing itMedian price

  • Potato cake91%, 29 menus
  • Scallop84%, 27 menus
  • Dim sim81%, 26 menus
  • Chips$6.5072%, 23 menus. Middle half $5.95 to $7.50, across 23 menus pricing it
  • Flake$11.0569%, 22 menus. Middle half $10 to $12, across 22 menus pricing it
  • Fish bite$2.9566%, 21 menus. Middle half $2 to $3.50, across 21 menus pricing it
  • Calamari ring66%, 21 menus
  • Chicken nuggets$566%, 21 menus. Middle half $3.50 to $8, across 11 menus pricing it
  • Pineapple fritter$3.3066%, 21 menus. Middle half $3 to $3.50, across 21 menus pricing it
  • Blue grenadier$9.7563%, 20 menus. Middle half $8.90 to $11, across 20 menus pricing it
  • Corn jack$3.9563%, 20 menus. Middle half $3.50 to $4, across 20 menus pricing it
  • Barramundi$11.9059%, 19 menus. Middle half $10 to $13.90, across 19 menus pricing it
  • Onion rings$5.3556%, 18 menus. Middle half $3.95 to $7, across 14 menus pricing it
  • Seafood stick$2.2053%, 17 menus. Middle half $1.99 to $2.50, across 17 menus pricing it
  • Spring roll$4.7053%, 17 menus. Middle half $4.50 to $4.90, across 6 menus pricing it

A price is shown once at least 5 of these menus price the dish.

The sections they use

  • Burgers59%
  • Drinks47%
  • Fish47%
  • Chips41%
  • Seafood41%
  • Salads38%
  • Souvlaki34%
  • Snacks31%
  • Favourites22%
  • Seafood packs22%

Section names as menus print them, folded together when they differ only in case or punctuation.

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How we worked this out

We read menus from venues’ own websites, as they publish them, between 13 and 16 October 2026. Each menu counts once, prices as printed. A chain’s branches that serve the same menu count as one menu. We never name a venue: every figure here is a median, a range or a share, with the number of menus it rests on.

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