First-hand price checks
Burger King Prices by Location 2026
92 prices recorded in person 2 cities
Every other price on this site comes from two national trackers. The prices on these pages came from standing in the restaurant. We have recorded 92 Burger King prices across 2 cities, each one stamped with the date it was seen and the person who saw it, and each shown against the national range for the same item.
A city page is one restaurant on one date. It is evidence of what that restaurant charged, not an average for the city, and not a Burger King price list. We publish a city only when we hold at least 12 first-hand prices for it.
Cities we have priced in person
| City | Visited | Items priced | Above national | Below national | Cheapest item seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York, NY | 23 August 2026 | 44 | 0 | 0 | Diet Barq's Root Beer - Value, $2.19 |
| Perris, CA | 23 August 2026 | 48 | 22 | 0 | Frozen Coke - Small, $2.59 |
The same item, priced in different cities
These are the items we have priced in more than one city. The spread is the gap between the cheapest and dearest we recorded, which is the closest this site can get to measuring franchise pricing rather than describing it.
| Item | New York | Perris | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozzarella Fries - 4 Pieces | $3.99 | $6.49 | 63% |
| French Fries - Value | $2.59 | $3.79 | 46% |
| Kid's French Fries | $2.59 | $3.79 | 46% |
| Black Iced Coffee - Small | $2.59 | $3.59 | 39% |
| French Fries - Small | $3.59 | $4.79 | 33% |
| Spicy Big Fish | $10.79 | $8.19 | 32% |
| Onion Rings - Value | $2.99 | $3.89 | 30% |
| Onion Rings - Small | $3.99 | $4.89 | 23% |
| Sweets, Chocolate Shake | $5.79 | $6.69 | 16% |
| Sweets, Strawberry Shake | $5.79 | $6.69 | 16% |
| Sweets, Vanilla Shake | $5.79 | $6.69 | 16% |
| Jalapeño Cheddar Bites - 4 Pieces | $3.49 | $3.99 | 14% |
| Black Iced Coffee - Medium | $3.59 | $3.99 | 11% |
| Diet Barq's Root Beer - Large | $4.49 | $4.89 | 9% |
| 8 Piece Cheddar Ranch Tots | $6.99 | $6.49 | 8% |
| Jalapeño Cheddar Bites - 8 Pieces | $5.99 | $6.49 | 8% |
| Onion Rings - Large | $6.19 | $5.89 | 5% |
| French Fries - Large | $5.59 | $5.79 | 4% |
| Chicken Nuggets - 4 Pieces | $2.89 | $2.99 | 3% |
| Double Whopper with Bacon | $12.39 | $12.69 | 2% |
| 4 Piece Cheddar Ranch Tots | $3.99 | $3.99 | 0% |
| Black Iced Coffee - Large | $4.59 | $4.59 | 0% |
The same basket, priced in every city we visited
Comparing single items city by city is useful but noisy, because any one item can be on offer, out of stock or priced differently by size. A basket is harder to argue with. Below are the 22 items we priced in all 2 cities, totalled. Same items, same order, nothing swapped in or out.
| City | Visited | 22 identical items | Against the cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York, NY | 23 August 2026 | $110.68 | cheapest |
| Perris, CA | 23 August 2026 | $121.28 | +$10.60 |
The same 22 items cost $10.60 more in Perris than in New York, a 10 percent difference on an identical order.
Worth reading carefully: that gap is smaller than the individual comparisons further up this page suggest. The reason is what the shared basket contains. Items priced in every city skew towards sides, drinks and snacks, because those are what a short visit reliably captures, while sandwiches, where the largest differences sat, appear in fewer baskets. Treat 10 percent as a floor on the gap rather than a measure of it, and expect the difference on a full meal to be wider.
Where price variation actually lives on this menu
Before spending a visit on anything, it is worth knowing which items carry information. The table below is computed from the national ranges our two price trackers publish, grouped by what the item costs. It measures how far apart those trackers sit on the same item, which is the clearest proxy we have for how much restaurants differ before anyone sets foot in one.
| Price band | Items | Median national spread |
|---|---|---|
| Under $3 | 41 | 37% |
| $3 to $6 | 17 | 48% |
| $6 to $10 | 9 | 28% |
| Over $10 | 1 | 9% too few items to rely on |
Variation concentrates at the cheap end and thins out towards the top. The $3 to $6 band carries a median spread of 48 percent across 17 items, against 28 percent for $6 to $10. Individual items make the point more sharply than the medians do: a Hamburger runs $1.69 to $2.89 nationally, a 71 percent spread, while a Triple Whopper runs $11.19 to $12.24, which is 9 percent.
The explanation is straightforward once stated. Flagship pricing is anchored by national advertising, so a franchisee has little room to move on it. The value menu is where they price against their own market, their own rent and their own wage bill, and it is therefore where a local check tells you something a national range cannot. That is why our price-check sheet leads with cheap items and puts the expensive ones last, which is the opposite of what seems intuitive.
What we recorded and did not publish
Any site can show the numbers it liked. The observations we discarded, and the reasoning behind discarding them, are the part that is harder to fake, so those get published too.
- Perris, CA (23 August 2026): 2 items held back. Suspected Kids Meal price recorded as the sandwich price; pending confirmation.
The specific case is instructive. Two kids' items came back far above what the same items cost in another city, which looked at first like a strong finding. It was not. Four-piece nuggets moved by about three percent between the same two visits, and a full-size Hamburger at the dearer restaurant cost less than the kids' sandwich supposedly did. A children's item cannot cost more than the adult one beside it, so the likelier explanation by far is that a Kids Meal price was recorded where a sandwich price was meant. Those figures stay in our data with a note attached, and off this page until someone can confirm which they were.
This is the same rule the rest of the site runs on. A wrong price is worse than no price, and it is worse still on a page like this one, because a first-hand figure carries more authority than a scraped one and therefore does proportionally more damage when it is wrong.
How a price check is actually done
There is no clever method here, which is rather the point. Someone walks into a Burger King, works down a printed sheet, and writes down what the menu board says. The sheet is generated from our own dataset and ordered by how much each item would tell us: items with a two-source national range come first, so the visit can be measured against something; items already priced in another city come next, so a spread can be calculated; anything we hold no price for at all comes last.
Every figure is stored with four things attached, being the city, the date, the channel it came from and the name of the person who read it. Our loader refuses anything missing one of them, and a build check refuses to publish a city page carrying fewer than 12 first-hand prices. Both rules exist because the alternative is easy and tempting: a template that works perfectly well with no real data in it, a place name dropped into the title, and a few hundred pages that rank for a season and then take the rest of the site down with them.
What these prices exclude matters as much as what they contain. They are board prices, so they exclude tax. They are single items, so they exclude combos, which is why our deals page keeps combo maths separate. And they exclude app pricing, which is set independently and is frequently lower than the board, covered on coupons. If you want the cheapest version of what you are about to order, the app is usually where it is, whichever city you happen to be standing in.
Why this is the only original data on the site
Our national prices are honest work, but they are a careful re-presentation of two other people's datasets, cross-checked and dated. Anyone with the same two sources could rebuild them. A price read off a menu board in a named city on a named date cannot be rebuilt from anything, which makes it the one thing here that is genuinely ours, and the one thing worth citing us for rather than citing our sources.
It is also the only way to test the claim the rest of the site depends on. Every page says franchise pricing varies. These pages are where that stops being an explanation and starts being a measurement. The method, including the sources we rejected and why, is on how we source prices.
Sources
- Local prices: recorded in person, city and date on each page. Not published elsewhere.
- National ranges: ThirstyBear
- National ranges: MenuPriceToday
Burger King prices by location: frequently asked questions
Do Burger King prices really vary by location?
Yes, and these are our own measurements rather than an assertion. Across the 2 cities we have priced in person, 22 items appear in more than one city, and the widest gap is Mozzarella Fries - 4 Pieces at 63 percent between the cheapest and dearest city we recorded. Almost every US Burger King is franchisee-owned and franchisees set their own prices.
How do you collect these prices?
Someone stands in the restaurant and reads the menu board. Each price is stored with the city, the date, the channel and the name of the person who recorded it, and none of it can be re-derived by re-running a scraper, which is exactly why it is worth publishing. Prices exclude tax, combos and app offers.
Why are there so few cities?
Because each one requires a visit. We publish a city only once it carries at least 12 first-hand prices. Generating a page per city from national data with the place name swapped in would be quick, would rank for a while, and would be exactly the kind of page this site exists not to be.
Can I use these prices to predict what I will pay?
Only loosely. A price we recorded at one restaurant on one date tells you what that restaurant charged that day. It is a real data point where our national ranges are an aggregate, but it is a single one. Check the app for your own restaurant before ordering.
Do these prices include sales tax?
No. Every figure on this page is the pre-tax menu price. Sales tax varies by state, county and sometimes city, so including it would add a second source of variation on top of the franchisee pricing this page exists to measure. Your receipt will be higher than these numbers by your local rate.
Why compare cities only on the items they share?
Because comparing them on different baskets measures the basket, not the city. If one city’s observations happen to include more large items, its total will look higher for reasons that have nothing to do with local pricing. Restricting the comparison to the overlap is the only way the difference can be attributed to location.
Which is more expensive, a city centre or a suburban Burger King?
City centre, airport, motorway service and stadium locations sit consistently at the top of the range, and suburban restaurants in lower-cost states sit near the bottom. That pattern is the most reliable thing anyone can tell you about fast food pricing geography, and it holds more firmly than any state-level generalisation.
Does Burger King set a national price for anything?
Not in any binding sense. Corporate can advertise a national promotion and suggest pricing, but the overwhelming majority of US restaurants are franchisee-owned and set their own menu prices. This is why national advertised offers routinely carry "at participating restaurants" - that phrase is doing real legal work rather than covering an edge case.
How do you decide a city has enough observations to publish?
A city needs a minimum number of observed items before it gets a page at all. Below that threshold a page would be drawing conclusions from a handful of readings, which reads as data while behaving like an anecdote. Cities we have visited but held back stay unpublished until the sample is large enough to say something.
Why not publish an average price for each item instead of a range?
Because an average across independently-priced restaurants describes a price nobody is actually charged. The low and high bounds tell you what you might realistically encounter; the midpoint between them tells you about our sample. We publish the range for the same reason we publish calorie ranges where sources disagree - see our sourcing policy.
Are prices likely to keep rising?
We do not forecast, and any site that gives you a confident answer to that is guessing. What this page can show is the spread that already exists between locations right now, which is frequently larger than a year of general price movement. If you want the cheapest order today, the variation between two nearby restaurants is usually worth more attention than the trend.