Methodology

To identify the states that spend the most and least on fast food, WalletHub analyzed the price of hamburgers, pizza and chicken sandwiches across the 50 states.

We summed up the individual costs of the components and adjusted the resulting figure to the median monthly income in each state, then used these results to rank-order our sample.

For simplicity, we considered the acquisition of only one unit of each component included in our calculation.

They left out chicken nuggets/tenders, French fries, and beverages. They left out all desserts. Breakfast. Coffee. Sandwiches not made of chicken. They didn’t normalize for population.