Fast food price insights
What the drive-thru really costs: prices from 81 fast food restaurants in Austria across 1 chains, checked 2026-10-04. Every figure below compares each restaurant's own pickup price from the brand's ordering app, so the numbers are what you would actually pay at the window.
Data as of . Updated daily. Prices are in euros.
Key findings
- Burger King has the biggest price gap between locations: its priciest restaurant charges 16% more than its cheapest for the same basket. Burger King has the smallest gap, 16%.
- Wien, 9 is the biggest cluster of bargain fast food in Austria: 8 of its 15 restaurants rank in their brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
- Lower Austria is the cheapest state for fast food overall (Drive Thru Index 96, where 100 is the national typical price) and Upper Austria the most expensive (100), averaging each brand against its own national prices.
- A Burger King Whopper costs anywhere from €6.40 to €7.20 across 57 restaurants in Austria; the typical price is €6.60.
- Lower Austria is the cheapest state for Burger King and Upper Austria the priciest, comparing the same basket of 5 items at 57 restaurants.
- For Burger King, Wien, 9 has the most bargain restaurants: 8 of 15 are in the brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
Cheapest to most expensive states
Each state's Drive Thru Index score averages every brand's typical basket there against that brand's own national typical price, so 100 is the national norm, 90 is 10% cheaper and 120 is 20% pricier. Brands are never compared with each other.
| Rank | State | Index | vs national | Brands | Restaurants compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lower Austria | 96 | -4% | 1 | 16 |
| 2 | Styria | 96 | -4% | 1 | 6 |
| 3 | Vienna | 98 | -2% | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | Upper Austria | 100 | +0% | 1 | 6 |
Bargain clusters
Where cheap fast food clusters: the places with the most restaurants whose basket ranks in their own brand's cheapest fifth nationally. Each brand is judged against itself, never against another brand's prices.
| City, all brands | Bargain restaurants | Restaurants compared | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wien, 9 | 8 | 15 | 53% |
| Eisenstadt, 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Oberwart, 1 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Tribuswinkel / Baden, 3 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Wolfsberg, 2 | 1 | 1 | 100% |
| Brand | Top bargain cities | Top bargain states |
|---|---|---|
| Burger King | Wien, 9 (8 of 15) | 3 (9 of 16), 9 (8 of 16) |
By brand
| Brand | Restaurants | Item | Typical price | Range | Cheapest state | Priciest state | Gap between locations | Delivery vs pickup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | 57 | Whopper | €6.60 | €6.40 to €7.20 | Lower Austria | Upper Austria | 16% | — |
Questions people ask
- How much does a Burger King Whopper cost in Austria?
- As of 2026-10-04, a Whopper costs €6.40 to €7.20 at 57 Burger King restaurants, with a typical price of €6.60.
- Where is Burger King cheapest in Austria?
- Lower Austria has the cheapest typical Burger King basket and Upper Austria the most expensive (Drive Thru Index, 2026-10-04). The single cheapest restaurant is in Linz, 4.
How the index works
Every day we check the menu at every US restaurant of each chain, using the same ordering app its customers use, and record each item's pickup and delivery price. Restaurants are compared on a basket of items that every full-menu restaurant of that brand sells, so a comparison is never skewed by a missing item. Restaurants with a limited menu, and prices that are clearly a menu code error, are left out of comparisons. "Typical" means the median restaurant.
Browse prices for every state and city or download states.csv and cities.csv.
Citing this data: Source: Drive Thru Index (https://drivethruindex.com), prices checked 2026-10-04. Journalists are welcome to quote any figure on this page.