I spent $10 on breakfast at Dunkin', Starbucks, and Tim Hortons. One chain provided the best value by a long shot.

I started the comparison astatine a Dunkin' successful Manhattan. I ordered via the app, choosing the $6 repast deal, which included a mean basking aliases iced java and 2 Wake-Up wraps. I besides ordered a coffee roll for $2.99.

This near maine pinch an other dollar to play pinch successful my $10 budget, and nary action to walk it, arsenic everything connected the paper costs much than that.

For my Wake-Up wraps, I was looking for assortment and heft, truthful I chose a sausage, egg, and food wrap and different 1 loaded pinch hash browns and bacon.

They were mini capable that 2 of them seemed for illustration the due serving size for fast-food meal sandwiches.

In position of taste, they were OK. The tortillas were soft and fresh, and some wraps were piping basking astatine pickup. However, the eggs were connected the barren side, arsenic was the sausage type of the wrap successful wide — though I enjoyed the peppery flavor.

The hash browns were a bully summation for adding immoderate bulk, but I thought they mostly tasted for illustration salt, the bacon wasn't crispy capable for my preference, and the barbecue condiment was a spot excessively saccharine for me.

Halfway done what I thought was the java roll, I came to a dollop of pome jelly and realized I'd been served an pome fritter instead. It was fine, but a spot excessively saccharine for my tastes.

In position of the drink, I've ne'er loved Dunkin's coffee, which is simply a spot excessively acidic for my tastes. However, I did admit that an iced java was an disposable action for the $6 repast deal.

A fewer days later, I visited a Starbucks connected Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Unlike Dunkin', Starbucks did not connection immoderate benignant of meal combo. So, I ordered small, basking blonde-roast java ($3.25) and a bacon, egg, and food sandwich ($6.75).

Before tax, I spent a full of $10 — the maximum my fund for this sensation trial allowed. So, I couldn't adhd a saccharine dainty to my bid for illustration I did astatine Dunkin'.

The sandwich came connected a information croissant, which had a nice, flaky texture and was pleasantly buttery. The cheddar was nicely melted, pinch a subtle earthy spirit that elevated it.

However, the ovum didn't sensation for illustration overmuch astatine all, and the bacon was disappointing successful its deficiency of crunch and absence of beardown flavor.

I seldom bid basking java astatine Starbucks, but erstwhile I do, I typically spell pinch the blonde roast.

It was good — I knew what to expect, and it surely tasted caller — but it felt for illustration a very mini magnitude of java for $3.25.

Plus, successful the mediate of the summer, especially, I'd person overmuch preferred thing connected ice. However, an iced java aliases acold brew would've put maine complete budget.

Finally, I went to Tim Hortons, which has consistently impressed maine successful akin sensation tests.

Since the Midtown Manhattan location precocious closed, I headed to a location successful Jamaica, Queens, which was attached to the section state station/convenience shop Bolla Market.

Using the "offers" conception of the Tim Hortons app, I ordered 1 of the $6 meal meals, which included a mean iced coffee, a sausage, egg, and food biscuit, and a doughnut of my choice.

However, I had capable successful my fund to tack connected an everything bagel pinch pick food for $3.49.

This ovum sandwich was my favourite of the three, mostly because of the fresh-tasting, crumbly biscuit it came on.

Though I made a messiness eating it successful my car, I appreciated that the biscuit wasn't excessively greasy, the ovum was fluffy and flavorful, and the sausage had a rich | meatiness, if not arsenic overmuch herb arsenic I'd like.

The glazed doughnut was sweet, soft, and airy, and the java was besides my favourite of the 3 — icy and smooth, without immoderate hint of sourness.

I'm snobbish astir bagels, and this 1 was nary substitute for an everything bagel from my section bagel shop, but it was amended than I expected.

It lacked the chewiness I activity successful bagels, and "everything" appeared to mostly mean it had poppy and sesame seeds, but it was nevertheless soft and fresh.

In total, I spent $6 astatine Dunkin' for 2 wraps, a mean iced coffee, and a doughnut. This wasn't a bad woody by immoderate means, but the repast didn't rather meet my individual sensation preferences.

At Starbucks, I sewage a meal sandwich and a mini basking java for $10. Although I enjoyed the sandwich, I didn't deliberation I sewage a batch for my money here.

However, $10 bought much than I wanted to eat successful 1 sitting astatine Tim Hortons, making it the champion worth of the 3 chains I visited. Plus, I really loved the delicious sandwich, doughnut, and coffee, and the everything bagel was a bully summation to the already robust meal.

Business Insider reached retired to Dunkin', Starbucks, and Tim Hortons for comment.