Same chain. Each number is the median pickup price at the restaurants we priced in that state, not one city and not one till. About half of a chain’s price spread lives inside a single state, which is why this mode exists alongside City and Store.
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A typical Big Mac® in New York is $6.99; in Arizona it is $7.29. Those are state medians across 545 restaurants and 254 restaurants, not two restaurants. Same chain, two state medians, pickup prices from McDonald's own ordering system.
This page is the state, not a city and not a store. New York is the median across 545 priced restaurants; Arizona is the median across 254. About half of a chain’s price spread lives inside one state, so a New York-vs-Arizona number is the middle of two wide ranges, not a promise about the restaurant on your corner.
City or Store mode is the right tool for a restaurant on your corner, or for whether Austin is cheaper than Dallas. This page answers the coarser argument people actually have: is New York McDonald's cheaper than Arizona McDonald's, typically?
New York as of 26 September 2026 · Arizona as of 26 September 2026
98 overlapping items are cheaper in New York as a state, 51 cheaper in Arizona as a state, and 13 cost the same on both state medians. The biggest gap on this pair is the Big Breakfast/Steak Hot Cake: $5.99 vs $8.64.
Only items that show up at enough restaurants in both states to publish a median. Sorted by the state-to-state gap. Half of a chain’s spread is inside one state, so these medians sit in the middle of two wide ranges.
| Item | Typical in New York | Typical in Arizona | State gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Breakfast/Steak Hot Cake | $5.99 | $8.64 | +$2.65 |
| Big Breakfast with Steak | $4.89 | $7.29 | +$2.40 |
| Sausage Egg & Cheese Biscuit | $5.29 | $6.89 | +$1.60 |
| Vanilla Cone | $2.89 | $1.39 | $-1.50 |
| Sugar Free Vanilla Cappuccino | $3.69 | $4.99 | +$1.30 |
| Hotcakes and Steak | $6.49 | $7.79 | +$1.30 |
| Iced Caramel Apple Pie Latte | $4.49 | $5.79 | +$1.30 |
| Big Breakfast with Hotcakes | $5.49 | $6.69 | +$1.20 |
| Caramel Cappuccino | $3.79 | $4.99 | +$1.20 |
| Hotcakes and Sausage | $5.99 | $7.19 | +$1.20 |
| Iced Caramel Macchiato | $3.79 | $4.99 | +$1.20 |
| Vanilla Cappuccino | $3.79 | $4.99 | +$1.20 |
| Vanilla Latte | $3.79 | $4.99 | +$1.20 |
| Iced Caramel Latte | $3.89 | $5.09 | +$1.20 |
| Iced Latte | $3.89 | $5.09 | +$1.20 |
| Americano | $3.59 | $4.69 | +$1.10 |
| Caramel Latte | $3.89 | $4.99 | +$1.10 |
| Iced Mocha | $3.89 | $4.99 | +$1.10 |
| Iced Sugar Free Vanilla Latte | $3.89 | $4.99 | +$1.10 |
| Iced Vanilla Latte | $3.89 | $4.99 | +$1.10 |
| Sugar Free Vanilla Latte | $3.89 | $4.99 | +$1.10 |
| Caramel Apple Pie Latte | $4.49 | $5.59 | +$1.10 |
| Daily Double® | $4.19 | $5.19 | +$1.00 |
| Hotcakes | $4.79 | $5.79 | +$1.00 |
| Cappuccino | $3.34 | $4.29 | +$0.95 |
| Egg McMuffin® | $4.89 | $5.84 | +$0.95 |
| 10 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $5.99 | $6.94 | +$0.95 |
| Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | $5.29 | $6.19 | +$0.90 |
| Double Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $9.29 | $10.19 | +$0.90 |
| Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese Deluxe | $8.79 | $9.69 | +$0.90 |
| Sausage McMuffin® with Egg | $4.59 | $5.49 | +$0.90 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | $5.29 | $6.19 | +$0.90 |
| Iced Coffee | $2.49 | $3.39 | +$0.90 |
| Iced Vanilla Coffee | $2.49 | $3.39 | +$0.90 |
| Latte | $3.39 | $4.29 | +$0.90 |
| Premium Hot Chocolate | $3.69 | $4.59 | +$0.90 |
| 10 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $5.99 | $6.89 | +$0.90 |
| McGriddles® | $1.14 | $1.99 | +$0.85 |
| 3 Piece McCrispy™ Strips | $5.99 | $5.19 | $-0.80 |
| 4 Piece McCrispy™ Strips | $6.99 | $6.19 | $-0.80 |
| Bacon McDouble® | $4.49 | $5.29 | +$0.80 |
| Bacon. Egg & Cheese Biscuit | $4.99 | $5.79 | +$0.80 |
| Mango Pineapple Smoothie | $4.99 | $5.79 | +$0.80 |
| McCrispy™ Filet | $2.29 | $3.09 | +$0.80 |
| Strawberry Banana Smoothie | $4.99 | $5.79 | +$0.80 |
| Triple Cheeseburger | $4.99 | $5.79 | +$0.80 |
| Bacon Egg Cheese Bagel | $5.99 | $6.69 | +$0.70 |
| Big Breakfast | $4.49 | $5.19 | +$0.70 |
| Sausage & Egg Biscuit | $4.79 | $5.49 | +$0.70 |
| 3 Pack Of Cookies | $3.19 | $2.49 | $-0.70 |
| Steak Egg Cheese Bagel | $6.59 | $7.24 | +$0.65 |
| 6 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $3.59 | $4.19 | +$0.60 |
| Egg Biscuit | $2.79 | $3.39 | +$0.60 |
| 20 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $8.89 | $9.49 | +$0.60 |
| 20 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $8.69 | $9.29 | +$0.60 |
| Bacon Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $7.99 | $8.59 | +$0.60 |
| Honey Brown Butter Bacon Egg Cheese Biscuit | $5.19 | $5.79 | +$0.60 |
| Quarter Pounder® with Cheese Deluxe | $7.29 | $7.89 | +$0.60 |
| Sausage McGriddles® | $3.64 | $4.19 | +$0.55 |
| Double Hamburger | $3.29 | $3.84 | +$0.55 |
| Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $6.99 | $7.54 | +$0.55 |
| Caramel Macchiato | $2.34 | $2.89 | +$0.55 |
| 2 Fried Apple Pies | $3.49 | $2.99 | $-0.50 |
| 40 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $15.49 | $15.99 | +$0.50 |
| 40 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets® | $15.49 | $15.99 | +$0.50 |
| 6 pc. Chicken McNuggets® | $3.49 | $3.99 | +$0.50 |
| Caramel Apple Pie Frappé | $5.89 | $6.39 | +$0.50 |
| Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese | $8.49 | $8.99 | +$0.50 |
| Filet-O-Fish® | $5.99 | $6.49 | +$0.50 |
| Fried Apple Pie | $2.29 | $1.79 | $-0.50 |
| Quarter Pounder® Hamburger | $6.19 | $6.69 | +$0.50 |
| Reduced Sugar Vanilla Swirl with Diet Coke® | $3.99 | $3.49 | $-0.50 |
| Sausage Egg Cheese Bagel | $5.99 | $6.49 | +$0.50 |
| Vanilla Swirl with Coca-Cola® | $3.99 | $3.49 | $-0.50 |
| Egg Cheese Biscuit | $3.89 | $4.39 | +$0.50 |
| 13 Cookie Tote | $7.29 | $7.69 | +$0.40 |
| Blackberry Passion Fruit Refresher | $4.49 | $4.09 | $-0.40 |
| Caramel Sundae | $3.99 | $3.59 | $-0.40 |
| Dirty Dr Pepper® | $3.99 | $3.59 | $-0.40 |
| Double Filet-O-Fish® | $7.39 | $7.79 | +$0.40 |
New York listed 19 comparable items often enough to publish a state median that Arizona did not. Arizona listed 8 that New York did not. Those stay off the state table rather than inventing a price for a state that barely sells them.
Common in New York, not in the other state: Pumpkin & Creme Pie, 2 Pumpkin And Creme Pie, McChicken® Biscuit, Chicken McGriddles®, Blueberry & Creme Pie, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Reduced Sugar Vanilla Swirl with Coke Zero Sugar®, and 2 Blueberry & Creme Pie.
Common in Arizona, not in the other state: Egg Cheese Bagel, 2 Cookies, Water, Diet Dr Pepper®, Reduced Sugar Dirty Dr Pepper®, 2 Strawberry and Crème Pie, Powerade®, and Frozen Hawaiian Punch®.
Each price is the median pickup quote at the restaurants we priced in that state, not one city and not one store. Tax is not included. A gap of a few cents on one sandwich is noise; 162 overlapping items pointing the same way is a difference between the two states.
Compare a different pair of states with the picker at the top, or drop to City or Store mode when the argument is about a town or a specific McDonald's, not the whole state. The price map colours every restaurant we have.
What this does not do yet. It does not match a Big Mac to a Whopper, and it does not hunt down the cheapest restaurant for a custom order. Those are next. This page is the state-grain question: two states, same chain, median overlapping menu, different typical prices.