Kids' Hamburger at Wendy's. 230 calories, $3.29, 12 g protein.
At 230 calories it is lighter than 81% of the 184 Wendy's items we track, against a menu median of 420. It delivers 5.2 g of protein per 100 calories, 40th of 151 items with published protein. At 70 calories per dollar it is 151st of 171 priced items on value.
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald's | Kids Fry | 110 | — |
| McDonald's | Hamburger | 250 | 10.2 |
| McDonald's | Hamburger Hm | 250 | — |
| Burger King | Hamburger | 260 | 10.32 |
| Burger King | Kid's Hamburger | 260 | — |
Priced at 3773 Wendy's restaurants in 45 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $2.99 and $3.79, a spread of 27%.
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.
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The cheapest Kids' Hamburger in the sample is $2.14 in EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, and the most expensive is $6.50 in ENDICOTT, NY. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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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.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO | $2.69 | 12 | cheapest |
| NJ | $2.99 | 135 | cheapest |
| VA | $2.99 | 176 | cheapest |
| IN | $2.99 | 122 | cheapest |
| WI | $4.39 | 45 | most expensive |
| HI | $4.09 | 10 | most expensive |
| MD | $3.79 | 84 | most expensive |
| DE | $3.79 | 12 | most expensive |
None of the 4,043 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-09-08. A typical one charges $3.29.
2026-09-08 · $3.29 to 2026-09-26 · $3.29. 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.
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Kids' Hamburger’s $3.29. 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.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crispy Chicken BLT | $3.29 | 43% | 3,774 |
| Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger | $3.39 | 27% | 3,788 |
| Medium Natural-Cut Fries | $3.39 | 30% | 3,788 |
| Homestyle French Toast Sticks, 4 PC | $3.19 | 20% | 3,787 |
| 6 PC. Spicy Chicken Nuggets | $3.39 | 31% | 3,781 |
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 2 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Iron | 15 mg |
| Potassium | 4 mg |
| Protein | 12 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 360 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Total Fat | 10 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Vitamin A | 0 mcg |
| Vitamin C | 0 mg |
The nutrition label as Wendy's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.