What Taco Bell Costs, Restaurant by Restaurant

Every dot is a real restaurant, priced from Taco Bell’s own ordering system. 416 of them, in 50 states.

A Bean Burrito runs $1.99 to $2.99 depending on which Taco Bell you walk into.

That is the range across the middle 80% of the 416 restaurants we priced — 50% apart for the same item at the same chain. Roughly half of that gap happens between restaurants inside the same state, which is why this is a map of restaurants rather than of states.

416restaurants priced

50states covered

$2.44national average, Bean Burrito

50%typical spread, Bean Burrito

Pick an item

one dot = one restaurant

The extremes

Two restaurants sit well outside the pack, and both are worth naming rather than averaging away.

Restaurant	Where	Bean Burrito	vs national average
1815 Neuse Blvd	New Bern, North Carolina	$1.69	31% below
100 Universal City Plaza	Universal City, California	$5.79	137% above

The most expensive one is a theme-park location, which is its own kind of finding — but it is one restaurant out of 416, so it does not belong in a headline about what Taco Bell costs.

What do you pay?

The cheapest and most expensive restaurants we found

For the Bean Burrito, across all 416 restaurants priced.

Restaurant	City	State	Price
1815 Neuse Blvd	New Bern	North Carolina	$1.69
611 23rd St	Canyon	Texas	$1.79
3013 S. Highway 27	Somerset	Kentucky	$1.89
1113 W. 3rd St.	Elk City	Oklahoma	$1.89
402 Dixieland Rd	Harlingen	Texas	$1.89
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83-10 Astoria Blvd	East Elmhurst	New York	$3.19
3350 W. Roosevelt Rd	Chicago	Illinois	$3.19
7751 Bonnie View Road	Dallas	Texas	$3.79
178 North Wabash Ave	Chicago	Illinois	$4.09
100 Universal City Plaza	Universal City	California	$5.79

Average by state

State	Average	Restaurants	vs national
Louisiana	$1.94	8	20% below average
Alabama	$1.99	9	18% below average
Wyoming	$1.99	2	18% below average
Hawaii	$1.99	2	18% below average
South Dakota	$1.99	2	18% below average
North Dakota	$1.99	2	18% below average
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Montana	$2.85	2	17% above average
Connecticut	$2.89	4	18% above average
Alaska	$2.89	2	18% above average
Arizona	$2.97	11	22% above average
Massachusetts	$2.99	5	23% above average
Iowa	$2.99	3	23% above average

States are shown only where we priced at least two restaurants. Because so much of the variation sits inside states rather than between them, a state average is a summary rather than a price you can count on — the map above is the more honest picture.