McRib® Meat

McRib® Meat at McDonald's. 300 calories, $2.19.

300calories
$2.19price
137calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 300 calories it is heavier than 51% of the 654 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 290. At 137 calories per dollar it is 40th of 198 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
McCrispy™ Filet290−10
Egg & Cheese McMuffin®290−10
Filet O Fish Hm290−10
Cafe Leche280−20
Vernors280−20

What a McRib® Meat costs across America

Priced at 4020 McDonald's restaurants in 45 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.49 and $3.39, a spread of 128%.

$2.19median price
$1.49–$3.39middle 80%
4020restaurants priced
45states

It is on the menu at 4020 of the 12221 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.

103 restaurants at $1.19–$1.38564 restaurants at $1.38–$1.58435 restaurants at $1.58–$1.77218 restaurants at $1.77–$1.96305 restaurants at $1.96–$2.15900 restaurants at $2.15–$2.35180 restaurants at $2.35–$2.54216 restaurants at $2.54–$2.7391 restaurants at $2.73–$2.93248 restaurants at $2.93–$3.12348 restaurants at $3.12–$3.3155 restaurants at $3.31–$3.50107 restaurants at $3.50–$3.70250 restaurants at $3.70 and above$1.19$3.70+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.

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$0.89cheapest sampled — Dandridge, TN
$5.99most expensive sampled — Emporia, KS

The cheapest McRib® Meat in the sample is $0.89 in Dandridge, TN, and the most expensive is $5.99 in Emporia, KS. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 44 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 36 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
UT$1.1529cheapest
NJ$1.5973cheapest
CO$1.59118cheapest
MI$1.59165cheapest
NE$4.1939most expensive
AK$3.9519most expensive
ID$3.193most expensive
WA$2.99121most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

None of the 2,643 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-10-22. A typical one charges $2.19.

Everything that changed at this chain →

See every McRib® Meat we price on the map — 4,020 restaurants, one dot each →

Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the McRib® Meat’s $2.19. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
Hamburger$2.1956%12,221
Hash Browns$2.1950%12,221
Biscuit$2.1965%12,220
McChicken®$2.1971%12,202
Pumpkin & Creme Pie$2.1945%10,399

Calorie and price data come from McDonald's's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.