Australia's iconic brunch staple — and a perfect proxy for café-line inflation. Holding at $19.90 nationally — but $22.50 if you order one in Tasmania.
We read Australian café menus and arrived at a number for each canonical plate. This is the first reading. It's not yet a trend — that comes with the April reading.
The point of an index is the question it lets you ask. Is an eggs benedict really dearer in Bunbury? ($25.50 against a national $23.50.) Does the smoked salmon variant earn its keep? (6 percent above the canonical plate.)
One reading every six months. 108 canonical dishes. 18.1k cafés in the sample. We never name the venue — only the region.
About the methodology →The cheapest Eggs Benedict by state is Australian Capital Territory at $22.50; the dearest is Victoria at $24.00. Your region's plot on the heat-map is, more often than not, the story.
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