Mary Brown’s Menu With Prices In Canada

Mary Brown's prints a Condiments section with seven entries and no prices beside any of them: ketchup, Louisiana hot sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper, cutlery and a straw. That is unusual enough on a menu-price page to be worth saying plainly — those seven are free, and the other 107 items are not.

The chicken itself is sold by the piece, and the pieces are not interchangeable. A drumstick or a single wing is $3.00, a thigh or a side breast is $4.50, and a centre breast is $5.75. Buy in bulk and the per-piece cost falls: 6 pieces is $21.99 (about $3.67 each), 9 is $30.99, 13 is $40.99, 18 is $55.99 and 27 is $81.99 — roughly $3.04 a piece at the top end, and the largest single order on the menu short of the $99.00 27 Piece Party Pack.

Sides are listed as size rows

Six of the sides give their name a row of its own and then list Small, Medium and Large underneath as separate items, which is why the Sides section holds 28 entries for a dozen or so things. Taters and Fries share a ladder — $3.49, $6.99, $9.99. Coleslaw and Macaroni & Cheese Salad share another — $2.99, $4.99, $7.99. Gravy runs $2.49 / $3.69 / $4.99. Biscuits are sold by count instead: $0.99 for one, $4.99 for six, $9.99 for twelve, and a single biscuit is the cheapest priced item on the menu.

Combos, and where they are not the deal

A Big Mary® is $4.99 on its own and $12.99 as a combo, so the sides and drink add $8.00. Chicken Tenders are $9.29 alone and $13.29 in a three-tender combo. But the Combos section also carries outright specials that undercut the regular list badly: 2pc and Taters SPECIAL! is $4.99 against $10.29 for the standard 2 Piece Chicken & Taters, and Poutine And Pop is $5.99 while a Tater Poutine on its own is $7.99.

Kids combos are flat — the 2 Tenders Meal, Drumstick Meal, Chicken Pop-Ins™ Combo and both Mini Mary kids meals are $6.99 each. The Feasts scale up in steps: $39.99 for 9 pieces, $53.99 for 13, $70.99 for 18, and $99.00 for the 27 Piece Party Pack, which is the top of the menu.

52 of the 114 items are under $5, and beyond the biscuits and free condiments most of them are drinks — cans at $2.50, bottles at $3.59, juice boxes at $1.99, bottled water at $2.75 — plus the $3.99 snacks: Mini Mary, Mini Mary Spicy and Crispy Chicken Twists.

Do prices vary across Canada?

Mary Brown's is a franchised chain with restaurants from Newfoundland to British Columbia, and franchisees set their own shelf prices, so two provinces — or two ends of the same city — will not always read the same. Limited-time specials such as the discounted two-piece deal are the least stable rows on the page and can be withdrawn or vary by store. Prices exclude sales tax, which differs by province.