What a pub menu carries and charges, from the 256 menus of this kind we hold in Melbourne. Its cuisine, for a wider comparison: Pubs, steakhouses and smokehouses.
Menu length
58 dishes
the median; the middle 80% list 27 to 155
Sections
10
on the median menu
The typical dish
$20
the median of each menu’s median price, across 255 menus
How long the menus are
Middle half of 256 menus: 39 to 90Median 58Scale stretched at the low end
What most of them carry
Share of menus listing itMedian price
Fish and chips$2857%, 145 menus. Middle half $17 to $31, across 140 menus pricing it
Chicken parma$3056%, 142 menus. Middle half $28 to $32, across 137 menus pricing it
Chicken schnitzel$2843%, 110 menus. Middle half $26 to $30, across 106 menus pricing it
Chips$1243%, 109 menus. Middle half $10 to $13, across 104 menus pricing it
Sticky date pudding$1536%, 93 menus. Middle half $12 to $16, across 91 menus pricing it
Garlic bread$1034%, 87 menus. Middle half $9 to $11.90, across 81 menus pricing it
Margherita$2228%, 73 menus. Middle half $19.90 to $24, across 71 menus pricing it
Steak sandwich$3028%, 73 menus. Middle half $27 to $31.50, across 72 menus pricing it
Caesar salad$2427%, 69 menus. Middle half $21 to $26, across 67 menus pricing it
Garden salad$9.7525%, 63 menus. Middle half $8 to $13, across 60 menus pricing it
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.