Certainly not. Land, taxes, labor, etc. vary across the country, and that has an impact on local pricing. An extreme case is the McDonalds at the South Rim of

Certainly not. Land, taxes, labor, etc. vary across the country, and that has an impact on local pricing. An extreme case is the McDonalds at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, which is a small town, obviously catering to the tourist trade. But, it's also, essentially, in the middle of nowhere. Plus, they have to truck water in, as there's no ground water or wells. The prices of sodas and beer were about the same, and they have to pay more labor to attract folks to make the drive out to the town to work. At the time, this was early 90's, it was almost $6.00 for the quarter pounder/fries/coke, which was an "outrageous" price, especially for McDonalds. Similarly, not McDonalds related, but there's another gas station in the middle of the desert with signs around the store to essentially tell folks "Yes, we know everything is expensive here. We're in the middle of the desert."