What the big chains actually charge in Columbus — read from each chain's own ordering system at 176 restaurants, with the cheapest and priciest locations named.
Prices checked November 5, 2026 · 9 chains priced in Columbus
Every figure below comes from Columbus restaurants' own listed prices. Ohio ranks #42 of 51 in our fast food prices by state index, paying 0.8% below the national typical price.
| Chain | Restaurants | Signature item | Columbus typical | US typical | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald's | 41 | Big Mac® | $5.49 | $6.09 | -9.9% |
| Wendy's | 31 | Dave's Single® | $5.59 | $5.99 | -6.7% |
| Taco Bell | 26 | Crunchwrap Supreme® | $6.79 | $6.79 | +0.0% |
| Chipotle | 21 | Chicken Burrito | $9.50 | $9.80 | -3.1% |
| Domino's | 13 | Large (14") Hand Tossed Pizza | $13.99 | $14.99 | -6.7% |
| Papa John's | 13 | 14 Inch Original Pepperoni Pizza | $15.99 | $17.50 | -8.6% |
| Burger King | 12 | Whopper | $5.79 | $6.19 | -6.5% |
| Popeyes | 11 | Classic Chicken Sandwich | $5.59 | $5.79 | -3.5% |
| Chick-fil-A | 8 | Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich | $5.19 | $5.25 | -1.1% |
One gap in this guide: KFC has 10 restaurants in our Columbus store list, but their Columbus 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 Columbus so far.
Typical prices in Columbus: Big Mac® $5.49 · Quarter Pounder® with Cheese $5.69 · McCrispy™ $4.59
Cheapest Big Mac®: $5.29 at 3600 W Dublin Grandville Rd (one of 2 at this price) · priciest: $5.99 at 1972 N High St (one of 2 at this price).
Typical prices in Columbus: Dave's Single® $5.59 · Baconator® $7.89 · Spicy Chicken Sandwich $5.99
Cheapest Dave's Single®: $5.49 at 3545 S. High Street (one of 9 at this price) · priciest: $7.29 at 3600 Interchange Road.
Typical prices in Columbus: Crunchwrap Supreme® $6.79 · Mexican Pizza $6.19 · Burrito Supreme® $6.49
Cheapest Crunchwrap Supreme®: $5.99 at 2225 Dublin Granville Rd (one of 5 at this price) · priciest: $7.49 at 480 Ackerman rd (one of 5 at this price).
Typical prices in Columbus: Chicken Burrito $9.50 · Chicken Bowl $9.50 · Steak Burrito $11.65
Cheapest Chicken Burrito: $8.85 at 1726 N High St (one of 2 at this price) · priciest: $10.10 at 4782 W Broad St.
Typical prices in Columbus: Large (14") Hand Tossed Pizza $13.99 · Medium (12") Hand Tossed Pizza $11.99 · Stuffed Cheesy Bread $8.49
Every priced Domino's in Columbus charges $13.99 for a Large (14") Hand Tossed Pizza.
Typical prices in Columbus: 14 Inch Original Pepperoni Pizza $15.99 · 14 Inch Original Create Your Own $15.99 · 14 Inch Thin Pepperoni Pizza $15.99
Cheapest 14 Inch Original Pepperoni Pizza: $15.99 at 1314 Bethel Rd (one of 12 at this price) · priciest: $17.99 at 2579 South Hamilton Road.
Typical prices in Columbus: Whopper $5.79 · Whopper with Cheese $5.79 · Original Chicken Sandwich $5.44
Cheapest Whopper: $5.69 at 1084 Cleveland Ave (one of 2 at this price) · priciest: $5.79 at 5470 Renner Road (one of 10 at this price).
Typical prices in Columbus: Classic Chicken Sandwich $5.59 · Spicy Chicken Sandwich $5.59 · Regular Cajun Fries $3.29
Cheapest Classic Chicken Sandwich: $5.59 at 1275 E Dublin Granville Rd (one of 6 at this price) · priciest: $6.69 at 1500 Polaris Pkwy.
Typical prices in Columbus: Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich $5.19 · Spicy Chicken Sandwich $5.59 · 8 ct Chick-fil-A® Nuggets $5.29
Cheapest Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich: $5.19 at 6240 E Broad St (one of 6 at this price) · priciest: $5.59 at 1924 N High St (one of 2 at this price).
The typical price is $5.49 across the 41 McDonald's restaurants we price in Columbus (checked November 5, 2026). The US typical price is $6.09.
The same Dave's Single® costs $5.49 at the Wendy's on 3545 S. High Street and $7.29 at 3600 Interchange Road — 33% more, inside one city. (9 Columbus locations charge the low price and 1 charge the high; the two named are examples.)
McDonald's, with prices tracked at 41 Columbus restaurants, of the 176 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.