What KFC actually charges in California — read from the chain's own ordering system at 50 California restaurants, not from a national menu board.
Prices checked November 5, 2026 · 138 menu items priced in California · Full menu: KFC menu prices
Across the whole KFC menu, California pays 6.8% above the national typical price for the same items. Across all 10 chains, California ranks #3 of 51 in our fast food prices by state index, paying 14.7% above the national typical price overall.
| Item | California typical | US typical | Difference | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 pc. Chicken Only | $22.49 | $20.99 | +7.1% | 50 |
| Famous Bowl | $7.19 | $6.79 | +5.9% | 50 |
| 3 pc. Chicken Combo | $12.59 | $11.79 | +6.8% | 50 |
| 8 pc. Chicken Meal | $32.24 | $30.19 | +6.8% | 50 |
| 12 pc. Chicken Only | $31.49 | $29.74 | +5.9% | 50 |
| Mac & Cheese | $3.99 | $3.49 | +14.3% | 50 |
| Chicken Breast | $4.49 | $3.89 | +15.4% | 50 |
| Classic Chicken Sandwich Combo | $10.29 | $9.19 | +12.0% | 49 |
Typical = median price across the restaurants in the right-hand column. The full KFC menu for a single restaurant is on the KFC menu prices page.
Named locations are the lowest and highest listed price for each item among California restaurants in the checked collection, with till-glitch listings excluded (see methodology). Where several locations tie at the same extreme price, one is named and the tie is shown.
The typical price is $22.49, the median across the 50 KFC restaurants we price in California (checked November 5, 2026). The cheapest is $16.99 at 10865 Sepulveda Blvd, Mission Hills; the priciest is $26.39 at 72922 Baker Blvd, Baker.
Across the whole KFC menu, California pays 6.8% above the national typical price for the same items.
Our collection tracks prices at 50 KFC restaurants in California, and 138 menu items are priced at three or more of them.
At the KFC on 10865 Sepulveda Blvd in Mission Hills, at $16.99 — against a state typical price of $22.49.
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.