Online order ticket
$31.58
median $ per order
+0.7% vs a week earlier+4.7% vs a year earlier
824 restaurants, 10,360 orders
The median total of a completed online order — what the guest paid, including tip and fees, after discounts.
Kwick365 The Independent Restaurant Index
Kwick365 is a public record of what independent restaurants in the United States sell, charge and are tipped, recomputed every night from the orders and menus of the ones that run KwickPOS.
Readings from 1,958 independent restaurants, through September 23, 2026.
480 published days on the record, back to .
What an independent restaurant sold yesterday
Today’s readings
Online tip rate
15.0%
median tip ÷ subtotal
no change vs a week earlierno change vs a year earlier
824 restaurants, 1,314 tipped orders — 12.7% of 10,360 orders
Median tip ÷ subtotal over orders that tipped; incidence = share of orders with a tip.
In-store ticket
$31.68
median of each restaurant’s average ticket
−0.4% vs a week earlier+4.7% vs a year earlier
1,762 restaurants, 132,706 orders
Median of each store’s average in-store ticket that day.
Online orders per restaurant
12.6
orders per active restaurant
+3.0% vs a week earlier+27% vs a year earlier
824 restaurants, 10,360 orders
Online orders ÷ stores with at least one online order that day.
Taco (single)
$5.50
median listed price, per taco
No comparison yet — first published September 22, 2026.
834 menu items from 84 restaurants
The median listed price of “Taco (single)” on the menus that list it, matched by item name with published include and exclude rules.
Pho (regular bowl)
$14.25
median listed price, per bowl
No comparison yet — first published September 22, 2026.
223 menu items from 34 restaurants
The median listed price of “Pho (regular bowl)” on the menus that list it, matched by item name with published include and exclude rules.
Pizza slice
$4.50
median listed price, per slice
No comparison yet — first published September 22, 2026.
261 menu items from 41 restaurants
The median listed price of “Pizza slice” on the menus that list it, matched by item name with published include and exclude rules.
Burger (basic)
$13.00
median listed price, each
No comparison yet — first published September 22, 2026.
159 menu items from 36 restaurants
The median listed price of “Burger (basic)” on the menus that list it, matched by item name with published include and exclude rules.
Coffee (regular drip)
$3.49
median listed price, per cup
No comparison yet — first published September 22, 2026.
112 menu items from 46 restaurants
The median listed price of “Coffee (regular drip)” on the menus that list it, matched by item name with published include and exclude rules.
Restaurants in the index
1,958
restaurants
No comparison yet — first published September 22, 2026.
counted from the menu index on the build date
Independent restaurants live in the network on the day the index was built.
When the orders came in
By metro
Metro areas are approximated from each restaurant’s mailing ZIP code, and are only offered once 30 restaurants fall inside one. Readings publish per metro on the same thresholds as the national ones.
Everything published
Price indexes
- Taco (single) $5.50
- Burrito $11.99
- Pho (regular bowl) $14.25
- Pizza slice $4.50
- Large pizza $21.99
- Burger (basic) $13.00
- California roll $7.00
- Ramen (basic bowl) $15.50
- Wings (10 pc) $10.99
- Chicken fried rice $11.95
- Pad Thai $14.99
- Coffee (regular drip) $3.49
- Margarita (house) $10.00
Readings
- Online order ticket $31.58
- Online tip rate 15.0%
- Items per online order 2.0
- Online orders per restaurant 12.6
- In-store ticket $31.68
- In-store orders per restaurant 60.0
- Restaurants trading in store 1,762
- Restaurants in the index 1,958
- Median Google rating 4.3
- Rated 4.5 or better 34.0%
Why these numbers can be checked
- A figure appears only when the day carries it. A reading is published on the days it clears 30 restaurants and 500 orders; a price index needs 30 matching menu items from 15 restaurants; and a metro is not offered as a geography at all until 30 restaurants sit inside it. Published or withheld.
- Nothing is estimated. Of the 178,848 cells this index has computed, 145,167 were withheld for want of sample rather than interpolated, smoothed or forecast — a cell below its threshold does not exist here. Outliers and dropped rows.
- Every figure carries its sample and its date. The number of restaurants behind a reading and the day it describes are printed beside it, on 480 days of record. What this sample is.
- No restaurant is identifiable. There is no per-store output anywhere on this site and no dollar total for any geography — medians, means, shares and counts only. Geography and metros.
All readings are computed over the set of restaurants live in the KwickEat index on the build date; historical days therefore reflect today's surviving stores, not the stores live on that day.
Read the full methodology — sources, thresholds, outlier rules, the matching rules behind every price index, and what each number does and does not mean.
Taking these numbers
For journalists
Free to cite with a link. Every figure here names the sample it came from and the day it describes, and the methodology says what it does not mean.
For restaurant owners
The index reads nationally, and locally wherever a place clears the same thresholds. Nothing here is a target; it is what the rest of the network did.
For analysts and developers
Every published series is available as JSON, with its sample and its data date on every row, and any reading can be put in a page of your own.