Every price guide on Canada Menu Book carries a date-stamped “Prices last checked” line. This page explains what sits behind that line: the sources we check, how we handle prices that vary or conflict, and what happens when we get something wrong.
Start with the official source
Wherever possible, we start with the chain’s own Canadian menu or app — the official website, the ordering app, or an official national menu. When the official source is clear and current, it is the price we publish. For example, our Dairy Queen guide verified all four Blizzard sizes against dairyqueencanada.com, and our Pizzaville guide was checked against the official pizzaville.ca menu.
The other sources we use
Official menus don’t always tell the full story — some chains don’t publish prices online, and franchise prices vary by city. So we also check:
- Dated in-store snapshots — photos or records of real menu boards at named Canadian locations, such as a downtown Toronto in-store snapshot.
- Dated third-party snapshots — named menu-price sources that record prices at a specific location and date, such as froqel Toronto snapshots.
- Delivery merchant menus — DoorDash and Uber Eats listings for a named city, used only for delivery prices and always labelled as such.
- Dine-in menu listings — services such as SinglePlatform that reproduce a restaurant’s dine-in menu, used for sit-down chains such as The Keg.
- Official documents — for example, an official national menu PDF, which we used to correct 28 prices in our Boston Pizza guide.
We check more than one source wherever we can, and we record the location and date behind each checked price. During our November 2026 review of all 29 guides, this process changed prices in more than a dozen guides — including correcting a Red Lobster guide that had been showing US-dollar figures taken from pages that default to USD when no Canadian location is selected.
Counter, takeout and delivery prices are never mixed
Delivery apps charge more than the counter — typically 15% to 25% more on menu prices, before fees. We measure delivery prices separately and label them as delivery prices. A delivery figure is never presented as an in-store price, and an in-store figure is never presented as a delivery price.
When prices vary, we show the range
Most Canadian chains are franchise-operated, so the same item can cost different amounts in different cities. Where prices genuinely vary, we show the range and name the location behind the checked price, instead of pretending there is one national price. Where sources conflict and no single figure can be verified, we leave the price unchanged or show it as a range — we don’t pick the number that looks neatest.
When we can’t verify, we say so
If no clean verification source exists for a price, we state that plainly in the guide rather than inventing a figure. One of our guides states exactly that: no clean in-store verification was found for its prices, so its figures were left as they were. A gap in our knowledge is shown as a gap, not filled in with a guess.
Corrections
Spotted a wrong price? Tell us — we check corrections within 2–3 business days. The fastest way is to leave a comment on the relevant guide, with the chain, the item, the price you saw, the location and the date. See our Contact page for what to include.
How the site is funded
Canada Menu Book runs no advertising, no affiliate links and no sponsored content. No restaurant chain pays us to list its prices, and no chain can pay to have a price changed. The guides exist to help readers, and the independence of the checking process is what makes them worth trusting.