What the big chains actually charge in San Jose — read from each chain's own ordering system at 100 restaurants, with the cheapest and priciest locations named.
Prices checked November 5, 2026 · 9 chains priced in San Jose
Every figure below comes from San Jose restaurants' own listed prices. California ranks #3 of 51 in our fast food prices by state index, paying 14.7% above the national typical price.
| Chain | Restaurants | Signature item | San Jose typical | US typical | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald's | 26 | Big Mac® | $6.89 | $6.09 | +13.1% |
| Taco Bell | 18 | Crunchwrap Supreme® | $7.24 | $6.79 | +6.6% |
| Chipotle | 13 | Chicken Burrito | $11.15 | $9.80 | +13.8% |
| Burger King | 11 | Whopper | $8.39 | $6.19 | +35.5% |
| Domino's | 11 | Large (14") Hand Tossed Pizza | $19.99 | $14.99 | +33.4% |
| Popeyes | 8 | Classic Chicken Sandwich | $5.99 | $5.79 | +3.5% |
| Chick-fil-A | 5 | Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich | $6.49 | $5.25 | +23.6% |
| Wendy's | 5 | Dave's Single® | $8.39 | $5.99 | +40.1% |
| Papa John's | 3 | 14 Inch Original Pepperoni Pizza | $22.55 | $17.50 | +28.9% |
One gap in this guide: KFC has 10 restaurants in our San Jose store list, but their San Jose prices have not been collected yet — KFC joined the collection on November 4, 2026 and its weekly rotation is still filling in. The guide covers the 9 chains priced in San Jose so far.
Typical prices in San Jose: Big Mac® $6.89 · Quarter Pounder® with Cheese $6.99 · McCrispy™ $5.89
Cheapest Big Mac®: $6.49 at 1702 Oakland Rd · priciest: $7.79 at 898 S Bascom Ave (one of 2 at this price).
Typical prices in San Jose: Crunchwrap Supreme® $7.24 · Mexican Pizza $6.69 · Burrito Supreme® $6.49
Cheapest Crunchwrap Supreme®: $6.59 at 5431 Camden Ave. (one of 6 at this price) · priciest: $7.99 at 609 Horning Street (one of 6 at this price).
Typical prices in San Jose: Chicken Burrito $11.15 · Chicken Bowl $11.15 · Steak Burrito $13.15
Cheapest Chicken Burrito: $10.80 at 975 The Alameda (one of 5 at this price) · priciest: $11.50 at 1566 Monterey Hwy.
Typical prices in San Jose: Whopper $8.39 · Whopper with Cheese $8.39 · Original Chicken Sandwich $6.79
Cheapest Whopper: $7.79 at 1030 Mclaughlin Ave. · priciest: $8.49 at 6477 Almaden Rd Spc D-1a (one of 3 at this price).
Typical prices in San Jose: Large (14") Hand Tossed Pizza $19.99 · Medium (12") Hand Tossed Pizza $16.99 · Stuffed Cheesy Bread $9.99
Every priced Domino's in San Jose charges $19.99 for a Large (14") Hand Tossed Pizza.
Typical prices in San Jose: Classic Chicken Sandwich $5.99 · Spicy Chicken Sandwich $5.99 · Regular Cajun Fries $4.49
Cheapest Classic Chicken Sandwich: $5.99 at 7270 Bollinger Road (one of 7 at this price) · priciest: $7.49 at 925 Blossom Hill Rd.
Typical prices in San Jose: Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich $6.49 · Spicy Chicken Sandwich $6.99 · 8 ct Chick-fil-A® Nuggets $6.59
Cheapest Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich: $6.49 at 53 Headquarters Dr (one of 3 at this price) · priciest: $6.59 at 5815 Silver Creek Valley Place (one of 2 at this price).
Typical prices in San Jose: Dave's Single® $8.39 · Baconator® $10.59 · Spicy Chicken Sandwich $8.69
Cheapest Dave's Single®: $8.39 at 782 S. Bascom (one of 3 at this price) · priciest: $8.49 at 2275 Mc Kee Road (one of 2 at this price).
Typical prices in San Jose: 14 Inch Original Pepperoni Pizza $22.55 · 14 Inch Original Create Your Own $22.55 · 14 Inch Thin Pepperoni Pizza $22.55
The typical price is $6.89 across the 26 McDonald's restaurants we price in San Jose (checked November 5, 2026). The US typical price is $6.09.
The same Classic Chicken Sandwich costs $5.99 at the Popeyes on 7270 Bollinger Road and $7.49 at 925 Blossom Hill Rd — 25% more, inside one city. (7 San Jose locations charge the low price and 1 charge the high; the two named are examples.)
McDonald's, with prices tracked at 26 San Jose restaurants, of the 100 restaurants across 9 chains in this guide.
We read the price of every item on the menu at each restaurant from the chain's own ordering system, every week. A "typical" price is the median across the restaurants named on the page, and every restaurant counts once: when a menu lists the same item twice under two spellings, the restaurant still contributes one price. The cheapest and priciest restaurants named on this page exclude the handful of listings whose price sits outside 0.4–2.5× the item's national typical price — a $99 sauce cup is a till glitch, not a price, and it should not be able to win "priciest" either. Named extremes also exclude one-day pricing anomalies: a price that appears at dozens of restaurants in a single day's collection and nowhere else in our archive is treated as a collection glitch, not a price, though those restaurants still count toward every typical price. State and city indexes average each menu item's local typical price against its national typical price, so every item counts once and no single chain dominates.