Pollo Campero Menu Prices USA 2026: Every Item, Six Cities Compared

Pollo Campero is a Guatemalan chain that now sells chicken in 20 US states and the District of Columbia, which means a lot of the people searching for its prices are Guatemalans, Salvadorans and Hondurans living in the United States — and the answer they get back is usually a delivery app’s guess. This page is the menu as Pollo Campero’s own ordering system priced it on 17 September 2026, at six restaurants in six states, so you can see both the menu and how far it moves between cities.

Summary: Prices vary by restaurant far more than most people expect. The same Two Piece Meal was $7.60 in Austin and $9.90 in Los Angeles on the same day — a 30% spread. Seven items did not move at all, led by 8 Pieces - Chicken Only at $19.99 in all six restaurants. Family meals beat assembling the same food à la carte, but by less than you would guess: $1.99 on the 8-piece, $7.00 on the 12-piece.

Where these prices come from

Every figure on this page was read on 17 September 2026 from Pollo Campero’s US ordering site, which publishes a live priced menu per restaurant. The site was in Pickup mode, so these are in-store pickup prices — not delivery prices, and before tax.

The chain’s marketing menu page at us.campero.com/menu does not publish prices at all, which is why the ordering site is the source here.

Prices vary by location. That is not a disclaimer we are adding to be safe — it is the single biggest finding on this page, and the tables below show exactly how much.

The six restaurants

Individual meals — six cities, 17 September 2026

Pickup prices, before tax, read from each restaurant’s own ordering page on 17 September 2026.

* Boyle Heights does not sell the nuggets meal the way the other five do. Instead of one meal with a +$1.50 upgrade option, it lists two separate products: a 6 Count Campero Nuggets Meal at $11.60 and a 9 Count Campero Nuggets Meal at $13.10. The $11.60 in the table is the 6-count, which is the one comparable to the other five restaurants.

Austin was the cheapest restaurant on every individual meal, and Los Angeles the most expensive on every one. The Four Piece Special is the exception to the tidy ordering: Nashville priced it at $15.75, above Queens, Manassas and Hyattsville, even though Nashville was cheaper than all three on the two-piece and three-piece meals.

Family meals and chicken by the bucket

The prices that do not move. 8 Pieces - Chicken Only was $19.99 at all six restaurants — the only item in the six-city tables above that did not move at all. It is not the only flat price on the menu, though: checking every product that all six restaurants carried, seven came back identical everywhere — 8 Pieces - Chicken Only $19.99, the $12 Queso Box $12.00, the 3 PC Dark Special and the Sandwich Special at $9.99 each, Queso Bacon Fries and Queso Bacon Yuca at $6.99 each, and the Side of Queso at $2.99. Everything else in the family range swung by up to $10.10 between Austin and Los Angeles on the 12-piece.

Note also that the 20 Piece Family Meal breaks the pattern: Queens ($64.89) undercut both Manassas and Hyattsville ($66.90), even though Queens was the more expensive restaurant on almost every individual meal.

Sides, add-ons and drinks (Nashville, 17 September 2026)

Sides do not carry a headline price at Pollo Campero — the ordering system prices them through a size choice. Here is what that size choice cost at each restaurant:

The six sides are French Fries, Coleslaw, Campero Beans, Campero Rice, Yuca Fries and Plantains, and the figures above are the French Fries prices. Within a restaurant the sides are normally priced alike, but not always: Austin is the exception — Campero Rice was $2.99 individual against $3.25 for the rest, and Coleslaw was $4.99 family against $5.25 for the rest. And Manassas listed only five sides, with no Coleslaw at all on the date we read it.

Everything else on the Nashville menu, with the calorie ranges the chain publishes:

Calorie figures are the ranges Pollo Campero’s own ordering system attaches to each item. Where it publishes none, none is shown here — we do not estimate calories. The chain’s full nutrition disclosures are at us.campero.com/nutrition.

Meal calories at Nashville: Two Piece Meal 401-760, Three Piece Meal 511-956, Four Piece Special 730-1817, Campero Nuggets Meal 476-1045, Campero Chicken Sandwich Meal 409-885, Campero Spicy Chicken Sandwich Meal 409-885, Empanada Trio Meal 601-861, 8 Piece Family Meal 1728-3558, 12 Piece Family Meal 2592-5337, 20 Piece Family Meal 4156-7950.

The upcharge table nobody publishes

The menu price is not what you pay. Every meal carries option groups, and some of those options add money. These are the paid options at the Nashville restaurant on 17 September 2026. The same option groups appear at all six restaurants, but the amounts do not carry over — the 8-piece family-meal chicken upgrade was $0.60 in Austin and Boyle Heights against $2.00 in Nashville, and the Three Piece Meal upgrade was $0.75 in Nashville against $1.90 in Manassas. Read the table as Nashville’s, not as the chain’s:

Two things fall out of this table.

The cut of chicken is the hidden cost on big orders. Every chicken box carries a free option and a paid one. Nashville and Austin label the free one “(Legs & thighs)” and the paid one “(Mixed)”; the other four restaurants spell the same pair out as “Leg, Thigh” against “Breast, Wing, Leg, Thigh” — so the paid upgrade is the one that adds breast and wing to the legs and thighs. On Nashville’s 20 Pieces - Chicken Only that upgrade costs +$4.50, more than double what the same upgrade costs on its 8-piece. The listing marks no option as a default, but the legs-and-thighs option is the $0.00 one at every restaurant, so ordering it is what costs nothing.

There is no combo discount on drinks or dessert. Adding a regular drink to a meal costs $2.76, and buying a regular drink on its own costs $2.76. The Caramel Flan is $3.50 either way. The only dessert bundle that actually saves money is the five-flan family add-on at $7.00, against $17.50 for five flans bought individually.

Combo versus à la carte: does the meal save you money?

All of the following uses Nashville prices from 17 September 2026, so the comparison is internally consistent.

Individual meals. A Two Piece Meal is $8.00 and includes two pieces of chicken, one individual side and a tortilla or roll. The individual side on its own is $3.75, so the chicken and bread inside that meal are effectively priced at $4.25.

Adding pieces is not linear. The third piece costs $2.20 (Three Piece Meal $10.20 minus Two Piece Meal $8.00). The jump from the Three Piece Meal to the Four Piece Special is $5.55, but that buys a second side worth $3.75 — so the fourth piece costs about $1.80, cheaper than the third.

Family meals. Here is the arithmetic on each one:

Chicken-only price per piece tells a different story again, and it is not monotonic: 8 pieces at $19.99 is $2.50 a piece, 12 pieces at $31.00 is $2.58 a piece, and 20 pieces at $44.00 is $2.20 a piece. The 12-piece box is the worst value per piece of the three.

The nugget upgrade is a small trap. Inside the Campero Nuggets Meal, going from 6 nuggets to 9 costs +$1.50. Bought à la carte the same three nuggets cost $1.27 (9 nuggets $9.00 minus 6 nuggets $7.73). The in-meal upgrade is 23 cents worse.

What the delivery apps show, and why it does not match

We pulled a Grubhub-powered listing for the same street address as the Manassas, VA restaurant on the same day, and compared it to Pollo Campero’s own pickup prices:

We are not calling this a delivery markup, because it is not shaped like one. A markup pushes every row the same direction. Here the third-party listing is lower on nine rows and higher on two (the Four Piece Special and, by five cents, the 8 Piece Family Meal) — that is what a menu captured on a different date looks like, not a surcharge. What it means in practice is simple: a third-party listing is not evidence of what you will be charged. Price your order on Pollo Campero’s own ordering site for your specific restaurant.

If you are ordering from the US for a Guatemalan household

A few things that matter to this audience specifically and that the aggregator listings never mention.

Tortillas are free — on the meals that offer them. At Nashville the Two Piece Meal, Three Piece Meal, Four Piece Special and Campero Nuggets Meal each carry a Choice of Dinner Roll or Tortilla group with both options at $0.00. The two sandwich meals and the Empanada Trio Meal carry no such group at all, so there is no tortilla to choose. Family meals let you split it — the 8-piece offers four dinner rolls, four tortillas, or two of each, all at $0.00. Extra tortillas beyond that cost $0.93 to $1.00 each, so a family that goes through tortillas fast should size the free allocation rather than buying singles.

Horchata is sold by the gallon. Take Out Gallon: Horchata was $15.25 at Nashville. Campero’s horchata contains peanuts, soy and milk, per the allergen note attached to the drink option on the ordering menu.

Not every state has one. On 17 September 2026 Pollo Campero’s locator listed 21 entries - 20 states plus the District of Columbia: Arkansas, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. If you are outside those, there is no Campero to drive to.

Feeding a big group is where the city gap bites hardest. A 12 Piece Family Meal cost $38.30 in Austin and $48.40 in Los Angeles on the same day — a $10.10 difference on one order. If you are between two restaurants in different towns, it is worth pricing both.

Related on Living in Guatemala

• Diaspora guides — the section for Guatemalans living in the United States
• Sending groceries and food to family in Guatemala
• Food prices in Guatemala — what the same basket costs at home, in quetzales

Last checked: 17 September 2026. Prices change without notice and vary by restaurant. We re-pull every figure on this page from Pollo Campero’s own ordering system rather than editing numbers in place, so if a price here is stale it is stale everywhere, not silently patched.