Applebee's Menu With Prices in Canada

Five sides at Applebee's cost $2.99 — fries, garlic mashed, Mexi-rice, cilantro rice, seasonal vegetables. Move one heading down to Signature Sides and a portion of 4-Cheese Mac and Cheese with Bacon is $8.99, three times the price for something still described as a side. That $6 spread inside one category is a fair summary of a 78-item menu averaging $18.35.

Only eleven items here come in under $5, and they are the Classic Sides, a $2.49 canned drink, $1.99 gravy, a $3.00 Brownie Bite and a $3.49 bottled water. Twenty-seven are under $10. Everything else is a plate.

The mains converge on two numbers

A striking amount of this menu costs $22.49 or $23.49. At $22.49: the Crispy Chicken Breast Strips Platter, Fiesta Lime Chicken and Applebee's Homestyle Shepherd's Pie. At $23.49: the Cowboy Burger, the Quesadilla Burger, the Grilled Oriental Chicken Salad, the Southwest Lime Grilled Chicken Bowl, Double Crunch Shrimp, Hand-Battered Fish and Chips and the Tex-Mex Shrimp Bowl. Burgers, salads, bowls and seafood all land in the same dollar band, which means the choice between them is genuinely a choice about food rather than budget.

The burger list itself runs $19.49 for the Classic Burger to $23.49 for the Cowboy and Quesadilla, with a Cheeseburger at $20.49, a Beyond Meat Burger at the same $20.49 and a Bacon Cheeseburger at $21.49. Handhelds sit slightly below, $19.49 to $21.49.

Where the menu gets expensive

Steaks and ribs are the step up. A 7oz Canadian AAA Top Sirloin is $31.49 and the 9oz $35.49; Bourbon Street Sirloin is also $35.49 and Garlic and Mushroom Steak Tips $33.49. Applebee's Rib-lets are $29.49 and BBQ Back Ribs $35.49.

Above all of that are the Everyday Family-Sized Meal Deals, five items intended for a table: Oriental Chicken Salad for four to five at $42.99, Chicken Breast Strips at $49.99, Rib-lets at $52.99, a "2 Can Dine for $55" at $55.00 and Dinner for 4 at $59.99 — the highest price on the menu.

Wings reward ordering more

The appetizer list has the clearest volume discount here. Chicken Wings are $10.99 for five, $19.99 for ten and $25.99 for fifteen: roughly $2.20, $2.00 and $1.73 a wing. Elsewhere in the section, Deep Fried Pickles are $12.99, Mozzarella Sticks $13.99, Waffle Poutine $15.99, Spinach and Artichoke Dip $15.99, and Dry Ribs, Boneless Chicken Bites and the Chicken Quesadilla top it out at $17.99 to $19.99.

Kids and desserts

The seven-item Kid's Menu runs $7.99 for Mac & Cheese or Cheese Pizza to $10.99 for Kid's Rib-Lets, with the hamburger at $8.99 and cheeseburger at $9.99. Desserts are almost uniform: $9.00 for the 4-High Carrot Cake, Dulce De Leche Caramel Cheesecake and Fudge Brownie, $8.75 for the Triple Chocolate Meltdown, and a $3.00 Brownie Bite for anyone who wants a fraction of one.

Do prices vary across Canada?

Applebee's has a small and franchise-operated presence in Canada, and casual-dining menus are reprinted often enough that individual plate prices drift. Anything ordered from a delivery platform will usually carry a markup over the dine-in figure. Sales tax is added separately and depends on the province, and gratuity is not reflected anywhere above. The proportions are what to take away — a $2.99 floor on classic sides, a main-course band that sits either side of $23, and steaks about $10 above that.