Which day has the most pub food specials?
Wednesday has the widest choice in this catalogue snapshot: 830 venues with a qualifying priced food special. Here is how the rest of the week compares.
venues with a qualifying Wednesday food special
Venues with a priced food special, by weekday
Recurring food specials · venue counts · n = contributing venues
- Monday530530 venues
- Tuesday713713 venues
- Wednesday830830 venues
- Thursday727727 venues
- Friday201201 venues
- Saturday6666 venues
- Sunday274274 venues
Rows with fewer than 30 venues are omitted. Counts describe the recorded priced-special sample, not every pub or every special. Each day can include the same venue.
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Plan around the day you can go
The busiest day is useful if you are flexible. If you only have Thursday free, that is the row to use. The count includes parmas, steaks, schnitzels, burgers, pizzas, fish and chips, and roasts.
Count a pub once, even with a long specials board
Each day counts distinct venues, not the number of dishes they advertise. Its median price is the cheapest qualifying special at each venue on that day. A listing without an explicit price stays out.
The food-special week
| Day | Venues | Median starting price | Below $20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 530 | $20.00 | 182 |
| Tuesday | 713 | $20.00 | 234 |
| Wednesday | 830 | $22.00 | 229 |
| Thursday | 727 | $22.00 | 195 |
| Friday | 201 | $20.00 | 69 |
| Saturday | 66 | $24.00 | 18 |
| Sunday | 274 | $25.00 | 48 |
The data behind the report
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What the fields mean
- venues / n
- Distinct contributing venues in that place and table; not all pubs in the area.
- value
- Cheapest qualifying food special at this venue on this particular weekday, in AUD.
- checked
- Recorded source-check date. Blank means a complete date is unavailable. For a venue average or bill, every part needs a date; the earliest date is retained.
- snapshot_date
- When the public PINTR catalogue snapshot was retrieved, not when every venue’s menu was checked.
How we counted
1,617 distinct venues contribute 3,341 venue-level figures to this report. 0 of those figures have a complete recorded source-check date.
- PINTR includes pubs, bars, clubs and other licensed venues. Every headline count refers to the matching PINTR sample, not every pub in an area.
- This is a snapshot of reported prices in PINTR, not a representative survey of every Australian pub. A venue without a matching price is outside the denominator, rather than counted as expensive.
- A table row needs at least 30 contributing venues. City areas use PINTR’s published state-boundary and radius definitions; neighbouring city catchments can overlap.
- A snapshot date records when PINTR’s public catalogue was retrieved. It does not mean each menu was checked that day. Individual source-check dates, including blanks, are retained in the downloads.
- Use explicitly priced recurring food-special rows with a named weekday. Exclude member-only, children’s, bottomless, per-person and food-plus-drink bundle descriptions. Do not extract a guessed price from unstructured text.
- Match the named meal category. Where a venue has several matching specials, count its lowest listed qualifying price once. The selected day, original name and restrictions remain in the venue download.
- Different meal portions, cuts, toppings and sides are not standardised. A calendar price is not a promise of current availability; check the venue and day.
- One venue can contribute once per weekday. Day samples overlap; adding the day counts does not give a count of distinct pubs. Only the seven matched main-meal categories are included.
Prices come from PINTR’s published venue and price catalogue, retrieved . The public directory and downloads show the supporting figures. This report does not measure inflation, national market share or changes over time.
PINTR price methodologyCite this finding
Wednesday had 830 venues with a qualifying explicitly priced food special in PINTR’s recurring-specials sample. Venues can appear on more than one weekday.
PINTR. “Which day has the most pub food specials?” The PINTR Times. Catalogue snapshot 7 November 2026. https://www.pintr.com.au/articles/data/food-specials-by-day
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