Cluster Bar Chart of Calories by Sandwich Type

Charting Calories at Dunkin Donuts

I'm a big Dunkin Donuts fan and have been known to have a bacon, egg, and cheese to start my day.  I received an email from Dunkin introducing their DDSmart campaign and pointing to me to a web site with calorie information for their products.  I quickly realized that choice ot meat and bread made a big difference on their breakfast sandwiches.  I also realized that a cluster bar chart would show this much better than the tables on the Dunkin web site.  My first chart takes a protein-centric view:

A protein-centric view of Dunkin Donuts Breakfast Sandwich Calories

A protein-centric view of Dunkin Donuts Breakfast Sandwich calories

You can see  that the egg and cheese has the least calories and that adding sausage hurts your diet the most.  Also, sticking with the English muffin saves you a great deal over the other bread options.  The chart clearly shows that you can more than double your calories depending on your meat/bread choice.

The carb-centric chart has the same data, just a different display:

Dunkin Donuts Breakfast Sandwich Calories

A carb-centric Dunkin Donuts Breakfast Sandwich calories

I put both charts done using Mekko Graphics on SlideShare:

Let me know what you think.  Should we tell Dunkin Donuts to be more graphical if they want to make their customers more cognizant of calories?