Sentinel Plate IndexMENU PRICES · INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS
A MONTHLY MARKET INDEX · UNITED STATES

What independent restaurants charge, month by month.

Typical prices for the dishes people actually order, read from restaurants' own public menus. Free to read, metro by metro and cuisine by cuisine.

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Texas

4 metros · 0 of 16 indexes published

Austin

0 of 4 live
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DFW

0 of 4 live
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Houston

0 of 4 live
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San Antonio

0 of 4 live
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How the index is built

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01

Prices from public menus

We read prices from each restaurant's own website. No delivery apps and no third-party ordering sites.

02

Independents only

Independent restaurants with fewer than 5 locations. We leave out chains.

03

Typical prices, never names

We publish typical prices and ranges across many restaurants. No restaurant is ever named.

04

Same restaurants, month to month

Change is measured on the same restaurants in both months, so a new opening never moves the number.

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About the index

The Sentinel Plate Index is a product of SentinelBrain™, published by SentinelBrain LLC, which builds tools for independent restaurant owners. The index is free: no restaurant pays to be in it, and none can pay to be left out.