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Most expensive fast food in the world- have a guess where

  • 11-07-2009 2:50pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭


    http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/107295/worlds-most-expensive-fast-food.html?mod=family-love_money
    World's Most Expensive Fast Food
    by Esther I. Yi
    Wednesday, July 8, 2009
    provided by

    In these cities, hamburger lovers pay most for their fix.


    © Danita Delimont / Alamy
    Dublin is home to Trinity College, the Guinness Storehouse and St. Stephens Green. Here, you'll also find the world's most expensive fast food. In U.S. dollars, a hamburger meal at a medium-priced establishment, as defined by consulting firm Mercer, costs a whopping $9.16.

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    That figure--the only to exceed $8.00 on a list of 20 geographically diverse cities selected for different cost comparisons--is $3.00 greater than the price of a hamburger meal in New York, where it's $5.99. But travelers in Europe will not find significant relief in many other cities on the continent, where the price of a fast-food meal hovers within the $7.00 range: In Amsterdam you'll pay $7.88, in Paris $7.43, and in Athens $6.66. For less pricey eats, grab a hamburger in Prague for $4.91, in Warsaw for $3.86, or in Johannesburg, which sells the cheapest burgers on the list at $2.50.

    Behind the Numbers

    In devising a comparative study of the cost of a fast-food hamburger meal across different cities, included in this year's Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2009, Mercer analysts collected data from venues most frequented by expatriates in a given city. Expenses incurred from consuming food outside of the home are assigned a weight of 9.5% in the cost of living index.

    Conducted twice a year by field researchers who report prices at the relevant retail outlets, Mercer's annual cost of living survey assesses differences in expenses and housing in 143 cities across six continents. The study compares the costs, in U.S. dollars, of over 200 items in each location, including housing, transportation, household goods, food and clothing. The analysis of this basket of goods and services--indicative of executive spending patterns--is designed to yield data that would help multinational companies and governmental organizations determine appropriate compensation allowances for employees sent out of the country.

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    "As a direct impact of the economic downturn over the last year, we have observed significant fluctuations in most of the world's currencies, which have had a profound impact on this year's ranking," said Nathalie Constantin-Métral, a senior researcher at Mercer's office in Geneva, Switzerland. The period between March 2008 and March 2009 displayed a greater degree of currency fluctuation against U.S. dollars than in the previous year, Constantin-Métral said.

    The ranking of the most expensive cities in the world has shifted to reflect these fluctuations. Moscow this year fell to No. 3 from No. 1 on the list; Tokyo--which had come in second last year--took its place as the most expensive city for expatriates to live. Another Japanese city rose to the top: Osaka moved up nine spots to claim the title of second most expensive city.

    If that's not enough to steer the cost-conscious from Japan, here's more. Tokyo, for example, may not have the most expensive fast-food hamburger meals at $7.04, but the city does call for the highest price when it comes to 35.3 oz. of spaghetti pasta: $9.06. Tokyo also has the second-highest cost for a liter of whole milk, at $2.58. Dublin, home to the most expensive hamburger meal, offers spaghetti at a lower cost of $3.56.

    In Depth: World's Most Expensive Fast Food

    1. Dublin
    $9.16

    2. Amsterdam
    $7.88

    4. Paris
    $7.43

    4. Brussels
    $7.43

    5. Rome
    $7.30


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,201 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    "Ireland in rip-off shocker!"

    :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    What's with all the statistics on after hours today??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,878 ✭✭✭Burkatron


    90% of them are made up!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,391 ✭✭✭Captain-America


    It's probably a good thing. Less people will eat it then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    What is it with Forbes and rich lists? Jesus what an utter load of cockheads the people that read it are


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    There's supposed to be a place in Ranelagh selling a burger for €60!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,174 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    Let's all blame Fianna Fail for this!!!!:rolleyes:


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    theres a half pound burger in roscommon for a hefty 35 euro. beat that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    This is Fianna Fáil's fault!!!

    Seriously Dublin is like 20% more expensive than the rest of the country. It's ridiculous. I paid nearly 2 Euro for a cup of coffee in the center.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    jumpguy wrote: »
    This is Fianna Fáil's fault!!!

    Seriously Dublin is like 20% more expensive than the rest of the country. It's ridiculous. I paid nearly 2 Euro for a cup of coffee in the center.

    Roscommon isnt in dublin now is it?

    Its not just dublin really. You just gotta know where to look nationwide ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Nolanger wrote: »
    There's supposed to be a place in Ranelagh selling a burger for €60!
    I think it's more like €40; it's made from Kobe beef. Although I would have thought that mincing it just defeats the purpose. If you're dumb enough to order it, you deserve to be charged that imo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Roscommon isnt in dublin now is it?

    Its not just dublin really. You just gotta know where to look nationwide ;)
    Only the first section of my post was referring to your post. The last was referring back to the statistics the OP posted. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I'd like to see them name where they went. All this tells me is dublin has a high proportion of these new fancy overpriced places, if idiots go there they have themselves to blame. Get your vouchers on the back of receipts or get the eurosaver deals. Only a fool would pay that for a buger & chips.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    McDonald's Euro Saver menu sells hambugers for €1

    Once a month in the States McDonald's sells burgers for $0.25.

    At the current exchange rate you can get five hambugers for that price in Dublin and get change back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Well, when you think about it, why would we want cheap fast food? Look what it's done to the Yanks.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Well, when you think about it, why would we want cheap fast food? Look what it's done to the Yanks.


    That may be, but the problem is that our "slow food" is significantly more expensive than our fast food. Actually there is an emerging problem where the most unhealthy food tends to be cheaper than healthy food creating a class divide in nutrition, You can see its effects around the developed world - but especially in the USA, the UK and here.

    Let's just face it - Ireland is still horrifically expensive and remains uncompetitive until the cost of living is reduced further.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Well, when you think about it, why would we want cheap fast food? Look what it's done to the Yanks.
    Ill give you that. But unless theres one of your nanny-state levies on fast food, Im not sure why its so high.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭nayorleck114


    If fast food where cheaper people would eat more of it. Do we really want to be a mirror of the US? I mean have you seen the size of your average fast food eater in the US?. For the odd time (once a month) i eat in McDonalds the price is fine. The price we pay in Ireland relates to our average wage, in Poland they could not charge the Irish prices, nobody would pay them. Every company in Ireland will charge high prices if they think people will pay them. Its only when people stop shopping and dinning that prices come down. You can be 100% sure that if McDonalds saw their trade decline by 50% that they would lower their prices.


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    just cook your own damn dinners yourselves, lazy feckers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    That may be, but the problem is that our "slow food" is significantly more expensive than our fast food. Actually there is an emerging problem where the most unhealthy food tends to be cheaper than healthy food creating a class divide in nutrition, You can see its effects around the developed world - but especially in the USA, the UK and here.

    Let's just face it - Ireland is still horrifically expensive and remains uncompetitive until the cost of living is reduced further.:(
    That's true. Where I am, it's far easier to go to a Deli and get a bottle of coke, a large roll and a carton of chips for 4 Euro. In "slow food" restaurants, I paid 6.50 for a panini and chips. Delicous, but not affordable for every day. Also, in the recession, fast food restaurants are feeling a boom. It's any wonder why...

    Also, does anyone else go to Maccy D's, get a big mac and chips, eat it, feel full for a second, then about 2 hours later feel hungry again? There's **** all in 'em except fat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Also, does anyone else go to Maccy D's, get a big mac and chips, eat it, feel full for a second, then about 2 hours later feel hungry again? There's **** all in 'em except fat.
    Sugar. Lots of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    nothing wrong with rolls, dependant on what you put in it. Subway here like: $5 for a footlong. Thats Lunch + 6" of Leftovers for the Fridge. Or $2.50 for lunch. Whatever. And healthy. Again, dependant on your toppings and sauce.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    Well, when you think about it, why would we want cheap fast food? Look what it's done to the Yanks.

    Don't kid yourself.

    You're not that far behind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    blah blah high rents blah blah high minimum wage blah blah people with too much money that don't shop around blah blah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    jumpguy wrote: »
    This is Fianna Fáil's fault!!!

    Seriously Dublin is like 20% more expensive than the rest of the country. It's ridiculous. I paid nearly 2 Euro for a cup of coffee in the center.
    you got it cheap :)
    Well, when you think about it, why would we want cheap fast food? Look what it's done to the Yanks.

    the main reason for it hwere is crap weather... obesity that is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,230 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Wertz wrote: »
    blah blah high rents blah blah high minimum wage blah blah people with too much money that don't shop around blah blah

    You forgot blah blah bubble blah blah burst blah blah deep **** blah blah feck blah feck blah foreigners blah blah shakes fist blah blah gis a job blah blah etc...:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    sure we dont even trade in dollars, we're euro! looooosers!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Overheal wrote: »
    nothing wrong with rolls, dependant on what you put in it. Subway here like: $5 for a footlong. Thats Lunch + 6" of Leftovers for the Fridge. Or $2.50 for lunch. Whatever. And healthy. Again, dependant on your toppings and sauce.
    A 6" sub would do you for lunch? :) The $5 is only for certain subs. I was paying about $6.50 I think for a teriyaki. Although Burger King had a great deal. Cheese burger meal was something like $3.50 and much bigger than the Irish meals.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭NickNolte


    A Big Mac meal near Trinity costs over €9? Since when? Or are they looking at those GBK places? Not really much of a comparison.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    eirebhoy wrote: »
    A 6" sub would do you for lunch? :)
    Has done. Got a 6" Meatball for $3.50 the other day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Most expensive fast food in the world- have a guess where

    Wow... for the second day running.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 538 ✭✭✭markopantelic


    Mousey- wrote: »
    you got it cheap :)



    the main reason for it hwere is crap weather... obesity that is

    Same thing in North of USA though. Freezing winters and then boiling summers, what happens is they put on weight during the winter like a Polar Bear but when the summer comes there too fat and get overcome with the heat so have to stay indoors.

    In Europe though Spanish teens(male) are the fattest so don't think weather has anything to do with it, and Sweden has least amount of obesidy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭silverside


    the chicken fillet rolls you get in Spar (or is it centra or londis ) for 1.99 are not bad at all...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Iskenderun


    A levy should be put on the food purchased from these fast food places in order to compensate the HSE for treating the health problems associated with eating this 'food'.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Iskenderun wrote: »
    A levy should be put on the food purchased from these fast food places in order to compensate the HSE for treating the health problems associated with eating this 'food'.
    That sounds like the beginnings of a good idea.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Iskenderun


    silverside wrote: »
    the chicken fillet rolls you get in Spar (or is it centra or londis ) for 1.99 are not bad at all...

    Do you have any idea where this 'chicken' comes from?
    And how it was reared?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Iskenderun wrote: »
    And how it was reared?

    From behind?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,153 ✭✭✭ronano


    silverside wrote: »
    the chicken fillet rolls you get in Spar (or is it centra or londis ) for 1.99 are not bad at all...

    Tis centra and tis excellent

    chicken fillet roll with 2 helpings of sun dried tomatoes :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Don't kid yourself.

    You're not that far behind.

    Hoi! Keep your "yous" to yourself, you :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭silverside


    Iskenderun wrote: »
    Do you have any idea where this 'chicken' comes from?
    And how it was reared?

    I reckon it grows on a chicken tree in Lapland. tis very tasty indeed.


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