The numbers people quote about fast food prices, computed from the chains' own ordering systems — not estimated, not surveyed. Every figure on this page is the typical (median) price across real restaurants, printed with the number of restaurants behind it.
November 2026 edition. Prices as of November 14, 2026 at 55,046 restaurants across 10 chains — 13,816,920 prices in the current collection. This page is rebuilt from the live collection with every weekly round; the edition is refreshed monthly and this URL never changes.
Across 12,255 priced McDonald's restaurants, the same sandwich runs +26.8% above the national typical price in Alaska and −14.5% in Texas. The full state table, every chain's flagship price, and the week's verified price moves are below — with a CSV download of the headline dataset.
Store-level data — every figure here is computed from prices read at individual restaurants in the chains' own ordering systems, the same collection the rest of this site serves. No figure is a survey response or a franchise disclosure estimate.
Citing this data
Source: Fast Food Index (https://fastfoodindex.com/fast-food-price-statistics/), prices checked November 14, 2026. You are welcome to quote any figure on this page.
The typical Big Mac costs $6.19 nationwide (November 2026 edition): $7.85 in Alaska, $5.29 in Texas. Flagship medians — Big Mac $6.19, Whopper $6.29, Crunchwrap Supreme $6.79 — from 55,046 restaurants.
One signature item per chain, priced at thousands of restaurants. The typical price is the median — half of restaurants charge less, half charge more. The most common price is the single price the largest number of restaurants charge.
| Chain | Flagship item | Typical price | Restaurants priced | Most common price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald's | Big Mac | $6.19 | 12,255 | $5.99 |
| Burger King | Whopper | $6.29 | 6,367 | $6.19 |
| Wendy's | Dave's Single | $5.99 | 4,711 | $5.99 |
| Taco Bell | Crunchwrap Supreme | $6.79 | 7,794 | $6.99 |
| KFC | Famous Bowl | $6.79 | 3,244 | $7.29 |
| Popeyes | Chicken Sandwich | $5.79 | 3,072 | $5.49 |
| Chick-fil-A | Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich | $5.25 | 3,067 | $4.99 |
| Chipotle | Chicken Burrito | $9.80 | 4,205 | $9.80 |
| Domino's | Medium (12") Hand Tossed Pizza | $12.49 | 7,232 | $11.99 |
| Papa John's | 14 Inch Original Pepperoni Pizza | $17.50 | 3,090 | $17.99 |
Prices are the item's own listing in each chain's ordering system — a Big Mac is the sandwich, not a meal or a deal listing that shares its name. Item-by-item menus, with every restaurant's price, are under each chain's menu-prices page, starting from the state index.
The typical Big Mac in each state, against the national typical price of $6.19. Priciest first: Alaska (+26.8%), Arizona (+17.8%), Vermont (+17.8%), New Hampshire (+17.8%), Rhode Island (+16.2%). Cheapest first: Texas (−14.5%), Louisiana (−11.3%), Oklahoma (−9.7%), Alabama (−9.7%), North Carolina (−9.7%). On the all-items basket — every core menu item, not just the Big Mac — Hawaii pays the most (+31.3%) and Oklahoma the least (−5.1%); that full basket ranking is the Fast Food Prices by State page, and our US Big Mac Index follows the sandwich store by store. (This is a store-level price index, not The Economist's PPP Big Mac Index.)
| State | Typical Big Mac | vs national | Restaurants priced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | $7.85 | +26.8% | 19 |
| Arizona | $7.29 | +17.8% | 254 |
| Vermont | $7.29 | +17.8% | 11 |
| New Hampshire | $7.29 | +17.8% | 50 |
| Rhode Island | $7.19 | +16.2% | 28 |
| Massachusetts | $7.19 | +16.2% | 367 |
| New York | $7.09 | +14.5% | 546 |
| Hawaii | $6.99 | +12.9% | 62 |
| California | $6.99 | +12.9% | 1,122 |
| New Jersey | $6.99 | +12.9% | 252 |
| Maine | $6.99 | +12.9% | 49 |
| Washington | $6.79 | +9.7% | 191 |
| Colorado | $6.59 | +6.5% | 180 |
| District of Columbia | $6.59 | +6.5% | 56 |
| Maryland | $6.59 | +6.5% | 273 |
| Nevada | $6.59 | +6.5% | 73 |
| Delaware | $6.55 | +5.8% | 39 |
| Pennsylvania | $6.54 | +5.7% | 454 |
| Virginia | $6.49 | +4.8% | 332 |
| Oregon | $6.40 | +3.4% | 132 |
| North Dakota | $6.39 | +3.2% | 10 |
| Nebraska | $6.29 | +1.6% | 60 |
| Michigan | $6.29 | +1.6% | 486 |
| South Dakota | $6.29 | +1.6% | 18 |
| New Mexico | $6.29 | +1.6% | 64 |
| Montana | $6.25 | +1.0% | 14 |
| Kansas | $6.19 | +0.0% | 117 |
| Florida | $6.19 | +0.0% | 833 |
| Illinois | $6.19 | +0.0% | 608 |
| Minnesota | $5.99 | −3.2% | 190 |
| Wyoming | $5.99 | −3.2% | 5 |
| Idaho | $5.99 | −3.2% | 49 |
| Arkansas | $5.99 | −3.2% | 132 |
| Georgia | $5.99 | −3.2% | 403 |
| Kentucky | $5.99 | −3.2% | 250 |
| Wisconsin | $5.89 | −4.8% | 268 |
| Utah | $5.89 | −4.8% | 108 |
| Ohio | $5.89 | −4.8% | 604 |
| South Carolina | $5.89 | −4.8% | 216 |
| Missouri | $5.79 | −6.5% | 289 |
| Iowa | $5.79 | −6.5% | 104 |
| Tennessee | $5.79 | −6.5% | 334 |
| West Virginia | $5.79 | −6.5% | 93 |
| Mississippi | $5.69 | −8.1% | 103 |
| Indiana | $5.59 | −9.7% | 346 |
| North Carolina | $5.59 | −9.7% | 434 |
| Alabama | $5.59 | −9.7% | 177 |
| Oklahoma | $5.59 | −9.7% | 163 |
| Louisiana | $5.49 | −11.3% | 190 |
| Texas | $5.29 | −14.5% | 1,073 |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
A dash means the current collection has no priced McDonald's restaurants for that item in Connecticut — we publish the gap rather than fill it with an estimate.
Taco Bell relaunched the Flamin' Hot Grilled Cheese Burrito on November 12, 2026, advertised from $5.49. Here is what the collection actually reads, at 3,132 restaurants:
The typical price is $5.99, not $5.49. Only 48 restaurants (1.5%) charge the advertised price; 92.5% charge more, and the full range runs $4.99 to $9.99 across 37 distinct prices.
The companion Mini Taco Salad, advertised from $2.49, is the honest version: its typical price is exactly $2.49, and 62.9% of its 3,128 restaurants charge it — though a few charge as much as $6.99.
The store-by-store reading is our story the advertised price, checked. New launches get the same treatment as they land; this section is the running record.
A price move counts here only when it clears the gate our stories use: the same item, moving from the same old price to the same new price, by at least $1, at 40 or more restaurants of one chain, with both prices plausible for that item. Anything smaller or thinner is noise — or the collector, not the chain.
| Chain | Item | Was | Now | Change | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domino's | 8-piece Boneless Chicken | $9.99 | $10.99 | $+1.00 | 49 |
| Domino's | Domino's Marbled Cookie Brownie | $8.99 | $9.99 | $+1.00 | 46 |
| Domino's | 32-piece Boneless Chicken | $33.99 | $34.99 | $+1.00 | 41 |
| Domino's | 16-piece Boneless Chicken | $18.99 | $19.99 | $+1.00 | 40 |
The round's largest raw change is not in this table: Burger King's chicken nuggets changed price at 4,389 restaurants across their listings, but the listings themselves changed at the same time — a menu restructure, not a like-for-like repricing — so it is excluded here and in our stories. Any other move at the same restaurants in the same days is excluded with it: it cannot be separated from the restructure, and this page only prints moves that stand on their own.
Day-by-day moves across every chain are on the price changes page.
Collection. We read each chain's full menu from its own ordering system, restaurant by restaurant, on a weekly rotation — 55,046 restaurants are priced in the current collection, and the archive behind this page holds 566 daily snapshots reaching back to September 1, 2026, 203,527,745 prices read in all. The current price state — the most recent price of every item at every restaurant — holds 13,978,598 prices.
Medians, not averages. A handful of restaurants report placeholder prices (a $99 sauce cup is a glitch, not a price), and a mean would let a glitch move a state. Every figure here is a median, and every figure prints its sample size — the flagship table alone rests on 55,037 restaurant prices, and the state basket behind the state page compares 3,208 core menu items.
Editions. This page is rebuilt from the live collection with every weekly round and re-issued as a dated edition each month. Figures from an earlier edition stay in that edition's reporting; the URL — and the citation below — never changes.
The headline dataset behind this page — flagship medians and the full Big Mac state table — as one CSV file, free to use with attribution:
Download the CSV (November 2026 edition)
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