McNugget Calculator

  • Fun fact: each nugget costs $0.06 to make (excluding overhead). [1] [2]

    So even though it's $5 for 20 which seems cheap... it's still only $1.20 in ingredients.

    [1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-profit-margin-on-McDonalds...

    [2] https://imgur.com/gallery/CvHqp6V

  • For me the rule of thumb here in SF is: even though I may only want 10 McNuggets, if there's anyone hanging around outside who looks like they'd appreciate some, get the extra 10 (for 2¢/each!) to give away. (It comes in 2 boxes.)

  • I thought this would be about what quantities of nuggets you need to buy to sum to the target number.

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/McNuggetNumber.html

  • The calculator isn't global friendly :)

    Here McNuggets arrives in the following packaging: 4, 5, 9, 12, 24

  • This makes me happy. I don’t even eat meat but it’s a charming project.

  • I do a similar cost comparison when eating pizza by determining how much bigger (more square area) the next size up is. If all you have is a non-scientific calculator, the trick was to divide the square of the radius of each pizza (since you are looking for the ratio of area, pi*r^2, and pi drops out). For example, if comparing 16" and 12", you just evaluate 8×8 / 6×6 = 1.7x bigger. Usually cost of the 16" is much lower than 1.7 the 12" so might as well get the larger size (and leftovers are fine).

  • This is basically the knapsack problem right?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem

  • Wow, I wish 40 nuggets cost 10 bucks here. It's $25 CAD ($18.56 USD)

  • Im upset. Can't use this in Germany. We don't have 4pcs. And 10pcs is a 9pcs over here.

  • Will use this calculator should McDonald's ever switch back to the original McNugget recipe.

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  • It doesn’t break much when you use the McDelivery prices in Korea: 4: 2100 6: 3600 10: 5100 20: 8200

  • This would be a nice test assignment for recruiting

  • It's sad that a brain this bright is being wasted on a McNugget Calculator

  • aka a calculator

  • The real question: Why are you eating at McDonalds?