Same chain. Each number is the median across the restaurants we priced in that city, not one store wearing the skyline. A restaurant in a city is not the city; this mode is the city.
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A typical Classic Chicken Sandwich in Phoenix is $5.79; in Sacramento it is $5.49. Those are city medians (6 restaurants against 7 restaurants), not one store standing in for the skyline. Same chain, two city medians, pickup prices from Popeyes own ordering system.
This page is the city, not a restaurant. Phoenix’s figure is the median pickup price across 6 Popeyes restaurants we priced; Sacramento’s is the median across 7. One expensive airport location cannot drag either city, and one cheap store cannot pretend to be it.
Inside Phoenix a Classic Chicken Sandwich runs $5.79 to $5.79 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). Inside Sacramento it runs $5.49 to $5.49 at most of those restaurants (middle 80%). The city-to-city gap on that item is $0.30 on the medians, which is a statement about the two cities, not about a single till in either one. A spread inside one city is why a state average hides half the story.
To compare two specific addresses, use Store mode on the picker above. A Popeyes in Phoenix is not “Phoenix.”
Phoenix as of 1 November 2026 · Sacramento as of 23 October 2026. Cities and states mix restaurants last priced on different days of the weekly rotation, so the as-of dates can differ.
47 overlapping items are cheaper in Phoenix as a city, 22 cheaper in Sacramento as a city, and 2 cost the same on both city medians. The biggest gap on this pair is the 12 Biscuits: $10.49 vs $16.99.
Only items that show up at enough restaurants in both cities to publish a median. Sorted by the city-to-city gap, not by either city’s menu board.
| Item | Phoenix city median | Sacramento city median | City gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Biscuits | $10.49 | $16.99 | +$6.50 |
| 6 Biscuits | $5.99 | $8.99 | +$3.00 |
| Cajun Gravy Side | $0.99 | $3.99 | +$3.00 |
| Gallon Hawaiian Punch | $6.99 | $8.99 | +$2.00 |
| Gallon Minute Maid Lemonade | $6.99 | $8.99 | +$2.00 |
| Gallon Sweet Tea | $6.99 | $8.99 | +$2.00 |
| Gallon Unsweet Tea | $6.99 | $8.99 | +$2.00 |
| Half Gallon Cane Sweeeet Iced Tea | $4.99 | $6.99 | +$2.00 |
| Half Gallon Unsweet Tea | $4.99 | $6.99 | +$2.00 |
| Large Homestyle Mac & Cheese | $5.99 | $7.99 | +$2.00 |
| 2 Cinnamon Apple Pies | $2.99 | $4.49 | +$1.50 |
| 2 Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie | $2.99 | $4.49 | +$1.50 |
| Large Cajun Fries | $5.49 | $6.79 | +$1.30 |
| Large Coleslaw | $5.49 | $6.79 | +$1.30 |
| Large Mashed Potatoes with Cajun Gravy | $5.49 | $6.79 | +$1.30 |
| Large Red Beans & Rice | $5.49 | $6.79 | +$1.30 |
| Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie | $1.89 | $2.99 | +$1.10 |
| Cinnamon Apple Pie | $1.99 | $2.99 | +$1.00 |
| 6 Jalapeño Peppers | $2.25 | $3.00 | +$0.75 |
| Chilled Mango Premium Lemonade | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Chilled Premium Lemonade | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Chilled Strawberry Premium Lemonade | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Frozen Mango Premium Lemonade | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Frozen Premium Lemonade | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Frozen Strawberry Premium Lemonade | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Cane Sweeeet Iced Tea | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Coca-Cola | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Coca-Cola Zero Sugar | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Diet Coke | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Dr Pepper | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Fanta Orange | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Fanta Strawberry | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Hawaiian Punch | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Hi-C® Flashin’ Fruit Punch | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Minute Maid Lemonade | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Sprite | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Large Unsweet Tea | $3.29 | $3.99 | +$0.70 |
| Bottled Water | $2.69 | $1.99 | $-0.70 |
| Chilled Pineapple Premium Lemonade | $3.49 | $3.99 | +$0.50 |
| Frozen Pineapple Premium Lemonade | $3.49 | $3.99 | +$0.50 |
| Pineapple Sweet Tea | $2.99 | $3.49 | +$0.50 |
| Pineapple Unsweet Tea | $2.99 | $3.49 | +$0.50 |
| Biscuits | $1.29 | $1.69 | +$0.40 |
| 3 Jalapeño Peppers | $1.19 | $1.50 | +$0.31 |
| Classic Chicken Sandwich | $5.79 | $5.49 | $-0.30 |
| Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich | $5.79 | $5.49 | $-0.30 |
| Mango Sweet Tea | $3.29 | $2.99 | $-0.30 |
| Mango Unsweet Tea | $3.29 | $2.99 | $-0.30 |
| Spicy Chicken Sandwich | $5.79 | $5.49 | $-0.30 |
| Strawberry Sweet Tea | $3.29 | $2.99 | $-0.30 |
| Strawberry Unsweet Tea | $3.29 | $2.99 | $-0.30 |
| Cane Sweeeet Iced Tea | $2.79 | $2.99 | +$0.20 |
| Classic Bacon & Cheese Chicken Sandwich | $7.49 | $7.29 | $-0.20 |
| Honey BBQ Sandwich with Bacon and Cheese | $7.49 | $7.29 | $-0.20 |
| Spicy Bacon & Cheese Chicken Sandwich | $7.49 | $7.29 | $-0.20 |
| 1 Jalapeño Pepper | $0.39 | $0.50 | +$0.11 |
| Small Coca-Cola® | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Diet Coke® | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Dr Pepper® | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Fanta® Orange | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Fanta® Strawberry | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Hi-C® Flashin’ Fruit Punch | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Minute Maid® Lemonade | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Mountain Dew® | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Sierra Mist® | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Small Sprite® | $2.59 | $2.49 | $-0.10 |
| Caramel Apple Cheesecake Cup | $3.99 | $4.00 | +$0.01 |
| Strawberry Cupcake Cup | $3.99 | $4.00 | +$0.01 |
| 2Pc Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Cup | $7.89 | $7.89 | same |
| Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Cup | $3.99 | $3.99 | same |
Phoenix’s restaurants listed 1 comparable item often enough to publish a city median that Sacramento did not. Sacramento listed 0 that Phoenix did not. Those stay off the city-to-city table, because a median for a city that barely sells the item would be a fake number.
Common in Phoenix, not in the other city: Large Cajun Rice.
Each price is the median pickup quote at the restaurants we priced in that city, not one celebrity store and not a mean pulled by an airport. Tax is not included. A gap of a few cents on one sandwich is noise; 71 overlapping items pointing the same way is a difference between the two cities.
Compare a different pair of cities with the picker at the top, or see every priced Popeyes restaurant on the price map — the map is store grain; this page is the city sitting on top of it.
What this does not do yet. It does not match a Chicken Sandwich to a Whopper, and it does not hunt down the cheapest restaurant for a custom order. Those are next. This page is the city-grain question: two cities, same chain, median overlapping menu, different typical prices.