Froqel: Canadian restaurant menu prices, checked and dated
Updated September 4, 2026
The same dish, ordered two ways
1.2001x
- In the restaurant$18.99
- On the delivery app$22.79
- What the app adds+$3.8020%
The multiplier holds to four decimal places on five items, and again on 27 of Montana's 52 price ranges. Two chains, one owner, one number. See the item by item comparison.
- 189%The $4.00 line: Ontario's tax cliff, chain by chainAdding a $0.40 dipping sauce to a $3.79 Harvey's Jr. Burger costs $0.76 — 189% of its list price — because it pushes the order past $4.00 and strips the 8% rebate off the burger too.
- +20.0%Fast food delivery app markup in Canada: what the menu price hidesDelivery adds a flat 20.0% to Kelsey's menu prices on Uber Eats and a flat $1.40 to every single-serving Swiss Chalet item, before a single delivery fee, service fee or tip is added.
- $6.00Feeding four for under $40 at Canadian chains, rankedA Costco food court feeds four for $6.00, and McDonald's Breakfast Bundle for 4 clears $40 in Ontario by five cents at $39.95 — while its Value Bundle Meal misses at $43.38.
- $1.47The Canadian coffee price index: what a cup costs at 8 chainsA McDonald's coffee carafe works out to $1.47 a cup against $1.99 for a single, so twelve cups cost less per cup than one — and every brewed coffee in Canada is under $4.00, which means Ontario taxes all of them at 5%.
- 10×Eating light under $12 in Canada: what the calorie data saysA Harvey's Side Salad costs 12.83 cents a calorie against 1.26 for the best sandwich on the same menu, so the lightest thing on the board is the most expensive food it sells by a factor of ten.
- 13%What a tip actually costs at Canadian restaurant chains, 2026A terminal that calculates the tip on the post-tax total charges you 13% more tip in Ontario than one that uses the pre-tax total — $1.98 extra on an 18% tip on an $84.59 order, before anyone has decided to be generous.
What this is
Froqel is a Canadian restaurant menu price guide built and checked by one person, Joshua C. Pulley. Every price on this site carries the date it was verified and says where it came from: a restaurant menu, a chain's own site, or a delivery app, labelled as such. Nothing here is estimated or copied from another site without checking it first.
Most menu-price sites don't say any of that. They publish a number, sometimes an old one, sometimes a delivery price wearing a restaurant's name, and leave the reader to guess which. This site exists to close that gap, one chain at a time.
The delivery markup Froqel found
The most useful thing on this site so far is what it found about delivery pricing. Comparing Kelsey's own Markham, Ontario menu against its Uber Eats listing, five items line up at a ratio of 1.2001, a flat 20 percent markup on the in-restaurant price: an $18.99 dish becomes $22.79 on the app, and a $24.99 dish becomes $29.99, both landing on the same multiplier to four decimal places. That's not a rounding coincidence. The same 1.2001x pattern turns up on 27 of the 52 price ranges published for Montana's, a sister chain under the same parent company, Recipe Unlimited. Most menu-price sites publishing "restaurant prices" right now don't say which number they're using; Froqel checked, and said so.
Neither chain's own site labels this either. Kelsey's won't show a price at all until a customer picks a specific restaurant, which is exactly the gap where an unlabelled delivery number gets published as if it were the standard menu price. Two chains, one owner, and the same multiplier to four decimal places is not the kind of thing that happens by accident.
Browse by chain
Twenty-five chain pages are published, covering eighteen restaurant brands plus their separate breakfast menus. Thirteen are highlighted below, each checked and dated between August 6 and August 13, 2026. For the complete roster in one place, see the full A to Z brand index.
| Chain | What the page covers | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| McDonald's Canada | One verified Toronto restaurant, item by item, from the Big Mac to McPops | August 6, 2026 |
| McDonald's breakfast | Breakfast prices and serving times | August 6, 2026 |
| Boston Pizza | National menu with calories, plus pizza price per square inch | August 6, 2026 |
| Tim Hortons | Full menu, Timbits and coffee priced per unit | August 6, 2026 |
| Tim Hortons breakfast | Breakfast menu, served all day at most locations | August 6, 2026 |
| Swiss Chalet | Full menu with the takeout versus delivery gap measured | August 6, 2026 |
| Kelsey's | The 1.2001x delivery markup finding, item by item | August 6, 2026 |
| Montana's | Full price list, with its 52 ranged prices explained | August 6, 2026 |
| Harvey's | Full menu priced in cents per calorie | August 6, 2026 |
| Wendy's Canada | Full menu, and the flat $5.20 every combo adds | August 13, 2026 |
| Burger King Canada | Full menu, and why the cheapest burgers pay most for a combo | August 13, 2026 |
| Burger King breakfast | Breakfast menu, combo pricing and hours | August 6, 2026 |
 Pizza 73 | Alberta menu, with every deal tested against ordering a la carte | August 6, 2026 |
The guides
The six cards at the top of this page are the guides that pull numbers from several chains at once, and they are where the findings live: the $4.00 tax line that makes a forty-cent sauce cost seventy-six cents at Harvey's, the delivery markup that adds a flat 20% at Kelsey's, feeding four for under $40, the coffee price index, what eating light actually costs, and what a tip works out to in dollars.
More guides sit behind those six, including breakfast hours across Canada, the cheapest fast food in Canada, and movie theatre snack prices, which covers Landmark Cinemas in full — Froqel doesn't have verified Cineplex pricing yet, so Canada's largest cinema chain isn't in it. The complete guide index lists them all.
How Froqel prices things
A few rules run through every page on this site. Prices are always shown before tax, since that's how Canadian restaurants price their own menus. Where the source says whether a price is dine-in, takeout, or delivery, that channel gets labelled, because the gap between them is often the actual story. Nothing gets published until it's been checked against a named source: a menu, a receipt, or a chain's own site. And where the data has a gap, a missing price or an unconfirmed calorie count, this site says so instead of filling it in with a guess. Where a chain sets prices restaurant by restaurant rather than nationally, that's stated too, rather than blending different locations into one number that looks tidier than the real answer.
Two gaps, named on purpose
Every page on this site says what it doesn't know as plainly as what it does, and two of those gaps are worth stating on the front page rather than burying in a methodology note.
There is no verified Cineplex pricing here, even though it's Canada's largest cinema chain. The movie theatre snack guide covers Landmark Cinemas instead, checked item by item, because nothing goes up before it has been checked and Cineplex hasn't been. And the McDonald's page is not a national price list: it is one verified restaurant in Toronto, because McDonald's Canada doesn't hand franchisees a uniform price list to follow, and pretending otherwise would be exactly the shortcut this site exists to call out.