Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Crispy Chicken Sandwich at Wendy's. 340 calories, $2.59, 15 g protein.

Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Photograph from Wendy's, as published on its own menu.

340calories
$2.59price
15 gprotein
+11label score
131calories per dollar

How it compares on the Wendy's menu

At 340 calories it is lighter than 60% of the 184 Wendy's items we track, against a menu median of 420. Scored on Wendy's own printed label, it comes to +11 on the label score, 25th of 74 Wendy's items we can score that way. It delivers 4.4 g of protein per 100 calories, 56th of 151 items with published protein. At 131 calories per dollar it is 53rd of 171 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at Wendy's

ItemCaloriesSaving
Jr. Cheeseburger Deluxe330−10
Chili280−60
Small Seasoned Potatoes280−60
Seasoned Potatoes280−60
Jr. Cheeseburger270−70

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNutrient density
McDonald'sCrispy Chicken150—
Burger KingChicken Jr.440—
Chick-fil-AChicken Sandwich4667.82
McDonald'sHot and Crispy Chicken My550—

What a Crispy Chicken Sandwich costs across America

Priced at 3788 Wendy's restaurants in 45 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $2.19 and $3.19, a spread of 46%.

$2.59median price
$2.19–$3.19middle 80%
3788restaurants priced
45states
231 restaurants at $1.99–$2.09517 restaurants at $2.09–$2.192 restaurants at $2.19–$2.29410 restaurants at $2.29–$2.39370 restaurants at $2.39–$2.49912 restaurants at $2.49–$2.59307 restaurants at $2.59–$2.6913 restaurants at $2.69–$2.79122 restaurants at $2.79–$2.89172 restaurants at $2.89–$2.99308 restaurants at $2.99–$3.0992 restaurants at $3.09–$3.190 restaurants at $3.19–$3.29332 restaurants at $3.29 and above$1.99$3.29+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.

Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.

$0.99cheapest sampled — PHOENIX, AZ
$3.99most expensive sampled — HEBRON, KY

The cheapest Crispy Chicken Sandwich in the sample is $0.99 in PHOENIX, AZ, and the most expensive is $3.99 in HEBRON, KY. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 44 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 36 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
AR$2.0924cheapest
MO$2.0912cheapest
FL$2.19311cheapest
MI$2.1929cheapest
HI$3.4910most expensive
OR$3.3926most expensive
DC$3.333most expensive
CA$3.29257most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

4 of the 4,059 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-08. A typical one now charges $2.59.

$2.44$2.54$2.642026-09-08 - $2.59 - median of 2,965 restaurants2026-09-09 - $2.59 - median of 3,187 restaurants2026-09-10 - $2.59 - median of 3,249 restaurants2026-09-11 - $2.59 - median of 3,249 restaurants2026-09-12 - $2.59 - median of 3,302 restaurants2026-09-13 - $2.59 - median of 3,349 restaurants2026-09-14 - $2.59 - median of 3,507 restaurants2026-09-15 - $2.59 - median of 3,538 restaurants2026-09-16 - $2.59 - median of 3,628 restaurants2026-09-17 - $2.59 - median of 3,628 restaurants2026-09-18 - $2.49 - median of 3,664 restaurants2026-09-19 - $2.49 - median of 3,702 restaurants2026-09-20 - $2.49 - median of 3,736 restaurants2026-09-21 - $2.49 - median of 3,736 restaurants2026-09-22 - $2.49 - median of 3,840 restaurants2026-09-23 - $2.49 - median of 3,929 restaurants2026-09-24 - $2.49 - median of 3,985 restaurants2026-09-25 - $2.59 - median of 4,059 restaurants2026-09-26 - $2.59 - median of 4,119 restaurants2026-09-082026-09-26

2026-09-08 · $2.59 to 2026-09-26 · $2.59. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.

The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.

Everything that changed at this chain →

See every Crispy Chicken Sandwich we price on the map — 3,788 restaurants, one dot each →

Priced like this at Wendy's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Crispy Chicken Sandwich’s $2.59. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
Apple Crumble Frosty Fusion®, Vanilla$2.590%3,451
Jr. Cheeseburger$2.4937%3,788
Classic Chocolate Frosty®$2.4937%3,733
Vanilla Frosty®$2.4937%3,732
Large Seasoned Potatoes$2.6931%3,788

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Calcium4 mg
Dietary Fiber1 g
Iron10 mg
Potassium6 mg
Protein15 g
Saturated Fat3 g
Sodium640 mg
Sugars4 g
Total Fat17 g
Trans Fat0 g
Vitamin A0 mcg
Vitamin C0 mg

The nutrition label as Wendy's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.