KFC Menu With Prices (September 2026)

KFC Menu Prices at a Glance

KFC prices its menu around two very different shoppers. If you walk in and order a sandwich and a drink off the main board you pay close to what any other chicken chain charges. If you order off the Box Feast board or through the app, you pay noticeably less for the same chicken. That gap is the single most useful thing to know before you order.

The prices below are national in store figures checked across several states in September 2026. KFC is close to fully franchised in the United States, so a bucket in central California can run two or three dollars above the same bucket in Alabama. Delivery app prices are higher again, often 25 to 35 percent over the counter price, so do not treat a DoorDash screenshot as the KFC menu price.

KFC Deals and Value Menu

Box Feasts replaced the older Fill Up boxes and now carry most of the value traffic. Each one is a complete meal in a single box at a fixed price, and the price steps up in two dollar jumps depending on how much chicken you want. The $7 box is the cheapest way to leave KFC full.

Two other routes save money and neither is advertised loudly. The KFC app carries offers that never appear on the in store board, and KFC Rewards pays out points on every dollar that convert into free sides, drinks and eventually free chicken. Many franchises also run a fixed weekday bucket deal, often on Tuesday, at a price below the standard bucket. Ask at the counter because it is rarely on the menu board.

KFC Bucket Prices

A bucket on its own means chicken and nothing else. If you want sides and biscuits with it you want the meal version in the next table, which works out cheaper than buying the sides separately. Buckets come in Original Recipe, Extra Crispy, or mixed, at the same price.

KFC Family Meals

Family meals are where KFC is genuinely cheap per person. The 8 piece meal at $29.99 feeds four adults with sides and biscuits included, which lands near seven fifty a head. Buying the same chicken and sides separately costs closer to thirty seven dollars.

KFC Chicken Combos

A combo is bone in chicken with one individual side, a biscuit and a medium drink. Ordering the same items separately costs about a dollar fifty more, so the combo is the right call for one person unless you already have a Box Feast in mind.

Piece for piece, dark meat is the cheaper order and the leaner one. Two drumsticks in Original Recipe come to about 260 calories. One Extra Crispy breast on its own is more than double that.

KFC Chicken Calories by Piece

This is the table people look for and KFC does not print it on the board. Numbers are for a single piece with the skin and breading on.

KFC Tenders Menu and Prices

Tenders are whole muscle chicken strips rather than formed meat, which is why they cost more per piece than nuggets. Every tender order comes with dipping sauce included, and you can ask for the tenders tossed in a sauce at no extra charge at most restaurants.

KFC Nuggets and Saucy Nuggets

Nuggets are the newest core item on the KFC board and the reason the chain built out its sauce range. A plain nugget runs about 40 calories. Order them Saucy and the nuggets are tossed in the fryer basket with your chosen sauce rather than served with a dip on the side, which adds between 45 and 130 calories depending on the flavor.

KFC Chicken Sandwiches and Chicken Littles

The KFC Chicken Sandwich is a thick breaded filet on a brioche style bun with pickles and mayo. The Spicy version swaps the mayo for a spicy sauce rather than adding heat to the breading, so the burn is mild by chicken sandwich standards. A Chicken Little is the same idea shrunk down and is the cheapest hot sandwich on the board.

KFC Famous Bowl and Other Bowls

The Famous Bowl has been five dollars for a long stretch now and it is the best calorie per dollar order on the menu. Mashed potatoes go in first, then sweet corn, then popcorn chicken, then gravy, then a three cheese blend over the top.

KFC Wings

KFC wings are bone in and come plain or tossed in one of the sauce flavors. Sauce is applied after frying so the coating stays crisp for a few minutes longer than at a wing specialist. They are sold in fixed counts rather than by the pound.

KFC Sides Menu and Prices

Individual sides are single serve cups. Large sides are family size and feed three to four people, which is why the family meals include them rather than individuals. Ordering two individuals costs more than one large, so if there is more than one of you, go large.

KFC Sauces

KFC now runs eleven proprietary sauces, and this is the range that pushed the chain into the sauce conversation with Chick-fil-A and Raising Cane’s. Dips are usually free with tenders and nuggets, with extra cups charged at around 25 to 50 cents depending on the restaurant. Calories are per one ounce cup.

KFC Desserts

Dessert at KFC is short and cheap. The chocolate chunk cookie comes free inside every Box Feast, which is the only place on the menu where a dessert costs nothing.

KFC Drinks

KFC pours Pepsi products. The one drink you cannot get anywhere else is Mtn Dew Sweet Lightning, a peach and honey flavor made for KFC. Sweet tea by the gallon is the cheapest way to buy drinks for a family order and works out well below the cost of four large cups.

KFC Kids Meals

Every kids meal comes with a small side and a small drink. Milk and bottled water are available in place of soda at no extra cost, and the drink swap is worth asking for because it takes about 150 calories off the meal.

Does KFC Serve Breakfast?

Almost no KFC in the United States serves breakfast. Restaurants open around 10:30am and the fryers go straight onto the lunch menu. A small number of legacy locations in the South, mainly in Kentucky, Tennessee and parts of Georgia, still run a morning menu of biscuits and gravy, chicken biscuits and country ham biscuits, but these are the exception and they are franchise decisions rather than a national program.

If you are searching for a KFC breakfast menu because you saw one online, it is most likely from KFC in another country. KFC Malaysia, KFC India and KFC Australia all run full breakfast menus that the United States does not have. The closest thing to a breakfast order at a US KFC is a biscuit with honey at $1.29 once the restaurant opens.

KFC Opening Hours

Hours vary by franchise, and drive thru hours often run later than the dining room. These are the typical hours for a US location.

KFC closes on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day at most locations and runs reduced hours on Easter Sunday and New Year’s Day. Locations inside airports, travel plazas and Taco Bell combination stores keep their own hours.

How to Order KFC for Less

A few things reliably cut the bill without cutting the food.

Order a Box Feast instead of a combo. A $9 Box Feast carries more food than a two piece combo at $8.89 and includes a cookie. Buy large sides, not individuals, whenever two or more people are eating, because two individual mac and cheese costs $6.58 and one large is $5.79 with more in it. Order dark meat when you are paying by the piece, since a drumstick and a thigh cost less than a breast and together give you more chicken.

Use the app before you get in line. KFC Rewards runs points on every dollar and the app carries offers that the counter does not have, including free side and free delivery codes that appear most weeks. Skip delivery apps for pickup orders because the same bucket often carries a 30 percent markup before fees. And if you are feeding a group, the 12 piece meal at $39.99 beats two 8 piece buckets at $43.98 and comes with three large sides on top.

KFC Nutrition Notes

KFC food is high in sodium before it is high in anything else. A single Extra Crispy breast carries roughly 1,190mg of sodium, over half the daily guideline in one piece, and the gravy on the mashed potatoes adds several hundred more. If sodium is the thing you watch, Kentucky Grilled Chicken and green beans are the two orders that move the number most.

On calories, the lightest full meal on the menu is a two piece dark meat Taste of KFC deal with green beans and no biscuit, which lands around 350 calories. The heaviest single order is a large mac and cheese with an Extra Crispy breast and a large soda, which clears 1,400. Nothing at KFC is vegetarian on the fryer side, and the beans, mashed potatoes and gravy all contain animal derived ingredients, so the only reliably vegetarian items are the corn, the green beans and the biscuit.

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