Articles
Short reads on how purchasing power is measured, how the minimum wage moved, and why eating out gets expensive faster.
26 September 2026· ≈ 6 min read
Pita or sandwich, again: the regular measurement across 1,654 menus
The naming border was measured again in the regular September measurement: in 13 cities it is mostly called a sandwich, Thessaloniki would be left with 12 shops without the word, and whatever we wrote on 7 September that no longer holds is stated with the number beside it.
Read15 September 2026· ≈ 3 min read
What does a year of pita gyros cost?
One, two or three pita gyros a week: monthly and annual costs, explicit assumptions and a calculator for the price you actually pay.
Read8 September 2026· ≈ 3 min read
2019–2026: higher wages, fewer gyros
Compare wages, gyro prices and purchasing power from 2019 to 2026, with Gyronomics figures, sources and a consistent basis.
Read7 September 2026· ≈ 4 min read
Pita or sandwich: a border that showed up in 1,113 menus
In Thessaloniki the wrap is called a sandwich; in Athens a sandwich is something else. How one word almost distorted a price measurement.
Read7 September 2026· ≈ 5 min read
Wraps and portions: what prices show across cities
What wrap-to-portion price ratios show, and the assumption needed to interpret them as size differences.
Read4 September 2026· ≈ 3 min read
We found the price of souvlaki in 1976 and 1978
Ten years of the series had no source at all. Two period newspaper reports, from a free public archive, closed two of them and corrected two constants that had been assumptions.
Read4 September 2026· ≈ 3 min read
The clipping whose year we knew, and did not use
An undated clipping gave a souvlaki price inside our largest gap. We found the year with a calendar and arithmetic, and then left it out.
Read3 September 2026· ≈ 2 min read
We tried a better deflator and it came out worse
The Food group of the CPI looks like the obviously right deflator for a food item. We tested it against an independent price and it doubled the error.
Read2 September 2026· ≈ 2 min read
The minimum wage did pay income tax, and the site said zero
Gyronomics published that income tax was almost always zero. The real tax scales, pulled from the government gazette, show 14 years with tax.
Read27 August 2026· ≈ 2 min read
What food-service CPI is, and why it runs hotter
The consumer price index for restaurants and cafes rises consistently faster than headline CPI. Here is what that means for the price of a gyro.
Read24 August 2026· ≈ 2 min read
Greece's minimum wage, 1976-2026
From the drachma to the euro and from the bailout years to 2026: how Greece's minimum wage moved and what each phase meant for purchasing power.
Read20 August 2026· ≈ 2 min read
Why we count gyros instead of euros
A wage in euros tells half the story. Here is why the Pita-Gyro Index is a more intuitive purchasing-power measure than headline inflation.
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