How we source Burger King prices and calories

Dataset compiled 28 August 2026

Why we publish ranges instead of single prices

There is no such thing as "the" price of a Whopper in the United States. The overwhelming majority of Burger King restaurants are owned and run by independent franchisees, and those franchisees set their own menu prices. Burger King Corporation can recommend pricing and can fund national promotions, but it does not decide what an individual restaurant charges for a sandwich. Non-traditional locations - airports, motorway service areas, stadiums, hospitals and university campuses, commonly run well above ordinary high-street pricing, because rent and labour there are higher and the customer is captive.

This means any site quoting one exact national price for a menu item is publishing a number that is wrong nearly everywhere. We would rather tell you a Whopper runs roughly $6.19–$8.04 and be right about the shape of the market than name a single figure to two decimal places and be precisely wrong , a "national average" of $7.12 would match almost no restaurant. When you need the exact figure for your restaurant, the Burger King app will show it, because it prices per location.

What we accept, and why

A source has to earn its place. We ran two tests before accepting anything. The first is whether the source states when its data was gathered. The second, for calorie data, is a roundness check: US nutrition labels are legally rounded, so genuine label calorie values are almost always multiples of ten. A database whose values are not round is computing figures from recipes rather than reporting what Burger King publishes, and those computed numbers will not match the board in the restaurant.

• Nutritionix, calories (view source)
• FatSecret, calories (view source)
• ThirstyBear, prices ; source states: "national pricing as of August 2026" (view source)
• MenuPriceToday, prices ; source states: "updated weekly" (view source)
• Burger King USA Nutritionals, macros ; dated 2020-04 , BK’s own document, but last revised April 2020; item list is stale. (view source)
• First-hand checks, 2 cities, prices ; source states: "New York, NY, 2026-08-23 (in-restaurant); Perris, CA, 2026-08-23 (in-restaurant)" , One location on one date each — local observations, not national ranges.

The standard a source has to meet

Plenty of menu sites will quote you a price without telling you where it came from. We hold every reference to the same short checklist before a single number from it reaches a page.

• Published figures, not computed ones. US nutrition labels are legally rounded, so genuine label calories land on multiples of ten. A source whose numbers do not behave that way is calculating them, not reporting them, and we do not use it.
• An honest date. If a page advertises this month at the top while its own figures are years old, we treat the whole source as unreliable. Faking freshness is worse than being openly out of date, because it takes away your ability to judge the data yourself.
• Consistent units. A price or calorie range has to describe one item at one size. Sources that blur sizes together get set aside.
• Traceability. We keep a raw capture of everything we use, so every figure on this site can be traced back rather than taken on trust.

Sources that fail any of these are not used. We do not publish a scoreboard of other websites, and we are not interested in picking fights with them — the checklist is the point, not the names.

Not everything that fails is an outside site, either. That same standard is why we decline to confirm whether the SpongeBob movie menu is still on sale, even though several sites assert that it is.

Burger King's own nutrition document

Burger King published a detailed nutrition guide covering its full US menu, and we use it, but only for supporting detail such as fat, sodium, carbohydrate and protein figures, and only with its date attached. The reason for that restraint is that the document was last revised in April 2020. Archive records show the identical file sat unchanged at Burger King's corporate address from May 2020 until April 2024, after which that address stopped resolving altogether.

A six-year-old document is not a reliable guide to what is on sale today. Its item list still contains the salad range, which disappeared from US menus by 2022, and it naturally has no entry for anything launched since. Its calorie figures have drifted too: it lists the Cheeseburger at 280 calories where current databases say 300, and the Big Fish at 510 where current sources say 570. So we take structure and macronutrients from it, and we take current calorie counts from current sources.

How we handle disagreement between sources

When our two nutrition databases differ on an item, we do not average them and we do not quietly pick the more flattering figure. We publish the range and mark the item as disputed. Most disagreements cluster in fountain drinks and fried sides, where databases differ on what a "medium" contains and whether ice is accounted for. Actual food items agree far more often than not.

Where a calorie threshold matters (for example a list of items under 500 calories) we always use the upper bound of the range. Nothing should be presented as under a limit when it could arrive above it. For the same reason, when we describe an item as costing "from" a figure we use the low bound, and when we rank items by value we use the midpoint. We say which of the two we are using wherever it could matter.

We also drop data that fails a plausibility check. Our two price trackers typically differ by around 18 to 28 percent, which is ordinary franchise variance. When a gap exceeded twice the lower figure we treated it as a name-matching error rather than genuine variance, discarded the outlier and recorded that we had done so. That check caught a Jr.-sized breakfast item that had been matched to a full platter price.

What the date at the top of the page means

This site rebuilds every day, which is why the date in the page title moves. We want to be exact about what that claims. It says "Dataset compiled 28 August 2026" and not "updated today", because a rebuild re-runs our checks against our sources, it is not a statement that Burger King changed a price that day. Claiming an update on a day when nothing changed would be a freshness signal we cannot support.

When the underlying dataset genuinely changes, the modification date in our structured data changes with it. The visible date tells you when we last looked; the structured date tells you when the data last moved. Those are different claims and we keep them separate.

Corrections

If a price or calorie figure here is wrong, we want to know, and a specific report is far more useful than a general one. Tell us the item, the figure you saw and the restaurant or city, and we will re-check it against our sources. Our contact page explains how to reach us and what to include. Menu data is a moving target and we would rather be corrected than be confidently wrong. You can also read more about who runs this site on our about page.

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