Steak

Steak at McDonald's. 160 calories, $2.69.

160calories
$2.69price
59calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 160 calories it is lighter than 73% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. At 59 calories per dollar it is 155th of 184 priced items on value.

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNutrient density
ChipotleSide of Steak (SideSteak)150—
Taco BellSoft Taco with Steak2869.65
Taco BellStreet Style Steak Taco300—
Taco BellGrilled Steak Three Cheese Taco300—
ChipotleSteak Taco300—
Taco BellSteak Gordita Crunch Duos 2pk340—

What a Steak costs across America

Priced at 12174 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.99 and $3.49, a spread of 75%.

$2.69median price
$1.99–$3.49middle 80%
12174restaurants priced
50states
369 restaurants at $1.50–$1.68249 restaurants at $1.68–$1.861130 restaurants at $1.86–$2.03914 restaurants at $2.03–$2.21575 restaurants at $2.21–$2.391704 restaurants at $2.39–$2.571689 restaurants at $2.57–$2.751475 restaurants at $2.75–$2.921444 restaurants at $2.92–$3.10845 restaurants at $3.10–$3.28499 restaurants at $3.28–$3.46443 restaurants at $3.46–$3.63166 restaurants at $3.63–$3.81672 restaurants at $3.81 and above$1.50$3.81+

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.

Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.

$1.00cheapest sampled — Rome, NY
$6.59most expensive sampled — Kapolei, HI

The cheapest Steak in the sample is $1.00 in Rome, NY, and the most expensive is $6.59 in Kapolei, HI. 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 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
VT$1.9913cheapest
NH$1.9949cheapest
DC$2.0955cheapest
ME$2.1949cheapest
AK$4.2019most expensive
HI$3.9962most expensive
MT$3.5017most expensive
WY$3.4910most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

83 of the 12,177 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +17.5%. A typical one now charges $2.69.

$2.69$2.74$2.792026-09-01 - $2.79 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-02 - $2.79 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-03 - $2.69 - median of 12,143 restaurants2026-09-04 - $2.69 - median of 12,151 restaurants2026-09-05 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-06 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-07 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-08 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-09 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-10 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-11 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-12 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-13 - $2.69 - median of 12,162 restaurants2026-09-14 - $2.69 - median of 12,163 restaurants2026-09-15 - $2.69 - median of 12,163 restaurants2026-09-16 - $2.69 - median of 12,163 restaurants2026-09-17 - $2.69 - median of 12,163 restaurants2026-09-18 - $2.69 - median of 12,166 restaurants2026-09-19 - $2.69 - median of 12,166 restaurants2026-09-20 - $2.69 - median of 12,167 restaurants2026-09-21 - $2.69 - median of 12,167 restaurants2026-09-22 - $2.69 - median of 12,167 restaurants2026-09-23 - $2.69 - median of 12,169 restaurants2026-09-24 - $2.69 - median of 12,169 restaurants2026-09-25 - $2.69 - median of 12,177 restaurants2026-09-26 - $2.69 - median of 12,177 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $2.79 to 2026-09-26 · $2.69. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.

The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.

Everything that changed at this chain →

See every Steak we price on the map — 12,174 restaurants, one dot each →

Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Steak’s $2.69. 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
Egg Biscuit$2.6980%10,746
HERSHEY'S S'mores McFlurry®$2.6968%766
Bacon Biscuit$2.6946%149
McDouble®$2.7920%12,234
3 Pack Of Cookies$2.5995%7,217

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