Fast food price insights
What the drive-thru really costs: prices from 404 fast food restaurants in Vietnam across 1 chains, checked 2026-10-05. 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 Vietnamese dong.
Key findings
- KFC has the biggest price gap between locations: its priciest restaurant charges 0% more than its cheapest for the same basket. KFC has the smallest gap, 0%.
- HỒ CHÍ MINH, SG is the biggest cluster of bargain fast food in Vietnam: 66 of its 66 restaurants rank in their brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
- Hanoi is the cheapest province for fast food overall (Drive Thru Index 100, where 100 is the national typical price) and Tay Ninh the most expensive (100), averaging each brand against its own national prices.
- A KFC Fried chicken (1 pc) costs 37,000 ₫ at every one of its 240 restaurants in Vietnam: the brand charges one price nationwide.
- For KFC, HỒ CHÍ MINH, SG has the most bargain restaurants: 66 of 66 are in the brand's cheapest fifth nationally.
The scoop
KFC Holds One Price NationwideAcross 240 KFC restaurants in Vietnam, the basket is 182,000 ₫ everywhere. That includes a mall site in Thái Bình, Hung Yen and a mall site in TÂN UYÊN, Ho Chi Minh City.
Burger King Is Just As SteadyBurger King’s basket is 242,000 ₫ at all 4 restaurants compared. Its WHOPPER is also fixed at 134,000 ₫ everywhere.
KFC Has Vietnam’s Biggest FootprintKFC leads the restaurant count with 240 locations, compared with Burger King’s 4. Even across that much larger footprint, KFC’s priciest store is 0% above its cheapest.
Cheapest to most expensive provinces
Each province'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 | Province | Index | vs national | Brands | Restaurants compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanoi | 100 | +0% | 1 | 44 |
| 2 | Ho Chi Minh City | 100 | +0% | 1 | 95 |
| 3 | Dong Nai | 100 | +0% | 1 | 12 |
| 4 | Can Tho | 100 | +0% | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Hai Phong | 100 | +0% | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Khanh Hoa | 100 | +0% | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Bac Ninh | 100 | +0% | 1 | 5 |
| 8 | Da Nang | 100 | +0% | 1 | 11 |
| 9 | Tay Ninh | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HỒ CHÍ MINH, SG | 66 | 66 | 100% |
| HÀ NỘI, HN | 40 | 40 | 100% |
| THỦ ĐỨC, SG | 9 | 9 | 100% |
| ĐÀ NẴNG, DN | 9 | 9 | 100% |
| ĐỒNG NAI, 39 | 5 | 5 | 100% |
| Brand | Top bargain cities | Top bargain provinces |
|---|---|---|
| KFC | HỒ CHÍ MINH, SG (66 of 66), HÀ NỘI, HN (40 of 40), THỦ ĐỨC, SG (9 of 9) | SG (95 of 95), HN (44 of 44), 39 (12 of 12) |
By brand
| Brand | Restaurants | Item | Typical price | Range | Cheapest province | Priciest province | Gap between locations | Delivery vs pickup |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFC | 240 | Fried chicken (1 pc) | 37,000 ₫ | 37,000 ₫ to 37,000 ₫ | Hanoi | Tay Ninh | 0% | — |
Questions people ask
- How much does a KFC Fried chicken (1 pc) cost in Vietnam?
- As of 2026-10-05, a Fried chicken (1 pc) costs 37,000 ₫ at all 240 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.
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Citing this data: Source: Drive Thru Index (https://drivethruindex.com), prices checked 2026-10-05. Journalists are welcome to quote any figure on this page.