Fast food price insights
What the drive-thru really costs: prices from 102 fast food restaurants in Qatar across 2 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 Qatari riyals.
Key findings
- Burger King has the biggest price gap between locations: its priciest restaurant charges 0% more than its cheapest for the same basket. Burger King has the smallest gap, 0%.
- Doha, DA is the biggest cluster of bargain fast food in Qatar: 22 of its 22 restaurants rank in their brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
- Doha is the cheapest municipality for fast food overall (Drive Thru Index 100, where 100 is the national typical price) and Al Rayyan the most expensive (100), averaging each brand against its own national prices.
- A Burger King Whopper costs QAR 16.00 at every one of its 20 restaurants in Qatar: the brand charges one price nationwide.
- A KFC Zinger costs QAR 17.00 at every one of its 60 restaurants in Qatar: the brand charges one price nationwide.
- For Burger King, None, DA has the most bargain restaurants: 8 of 8 are in the brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
- For KFC, Doha, DA has the most bargain restaurants: 22 of 22 are in the brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
Cheapest to most expensive municipalities
Each municipality'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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doha, DA | 22 | 22 | 100% |
| Rayyan, RA | 17 | 17 | 100% |
| None, DA | 8 | 8 | 100% |
| None, RA | 6 | 6 | 100% |
| Wakrah, WA | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| Brand | Top bargain cities | Top bargain municipalities |
|---|---|---|
| Burger King | None, DA (8 of 8), None, RA (6 of 6) | — |
| KFC | Doha, DA (22 of 22), Rayyan, RA (17 of 17), Wakrah, WA (5 of 5) | DA (27 of 27), RA (20 of 20) |
By brand
| Brand | Restaurants | Item | Typical price | Range | Cheapest municipality | Priciest municipality | Gap between locations | Delivery vs pickup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | 20 | Whopper | QAR 16.00 | QAR 16.00 to QAR 16.00 | Doha | Al Rayyan | 0% | — |
| KFC | 60 | Zinger | QAR 17.00 | QAR 17.00 to QAR 17.00 | Al Rayyan | Al Wakrah | 0% | — |
Questions people ask
- How much does a Burger King Whopper cost in Qatar?
- As of 2026-10-04, a Whopper costs QAR 16.00 at all 20 Burger King restaurants.
- How much does a KFC Zinger cost in Qatar?
- As of 2026-10-04, a Zinger costs QAR 17.00 at all 60 KFC restaurants.
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.