$5.88 buys the two sandwiches in a Barnyard Burger, and $4.68 buys a cheaper route to it.
A Wendy's Barnyard Burger is beef, crispy chicken and bacon in one sandwich, assembled from two listed items rather than ordered by name. A Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger is $2.89 and a Crispy Chicken Sandwich is $2.99, both prices Wendy's publishes itself, so the pair costs $5.88 and carries 690 calories. A cheaper route exists and runs to $4.68. Nothing is discounted for stacking, and no till holds the name.
Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger price and calories · Crispy Chicken Sandwich price and calories · Crispy Chicken BLT price, the cheaper bacon route · Jr. Cheeseburger price and calories · Wendy's secret menu — what staff will actually make
What you need
8 itemsFour routes, four totals
| Route | Components and prices | Total and calories |
|---|---|---|
| The usual one | Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger $2.89 + Crispy Chicken Sandwich $2.99 | $5.88 · 690 Cal |
| A cheaper pairing | Jr. Cheeseburger $1.99 + Crispy Chicken BLT $2.69 | $4.68 · 690 Cal |
| The spicy one | Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger $2.89 + Spicy Chicken Sandwich $4.89 | $7.78 · 910 Cal |
| One sandwich, modified | Asiago Ranch Club Sandwich $6.99 plus a beef patty | No total — the patty carries no published charge |
How it works
Pick the route before you reach the counter
Two sandwiches make this, and which two decides the price. Between the dearest and the cheapest routes priced below sits $3.10.
Order both items by their menu names
Say Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger and Crispy Chicken Sandwich. Neither request is unusual, neither needs explaining, and the crew member never has to recognise a nickname.
Stack it yourself once you sit down
Lift the chicken fillet onto the bacon cheeseburger and discard a bun half. Asking the kitchen to do it turns a routine order into a build nobody has a card for.
Try the modification route only if you want one sandwich
Adding a beef patty to an Asiago Ranch Club Sandwich keeps it as a single item on the till. It also leaves you unable to know the price in advance, because that add-on charge is not published.
Ask what it came to before you pay
Two listed items ring up at two listed prices, so a surprise here means something else was added. Wendy's publishes both figures, which makes this one of the few builds you can check in advance.
If something goes wrong
The name meant nothing to the crew
- Cause
- Wendy's publishes no such item and trains staff on modifiers instead
- Fix
- Name the two sandwiches. A Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger and a Crispy Chicken Sandwich are ordinary requests and the stacking is yours to finish.
It cost more than $5.88
- Cause
- The figures Wendy's posts centrally are not what every restaurant charges
- Fix
- Check the app with your location set. Franchisees run most of the estate and each one prices its own board.
The drive-thru would not take a stacking request
- Cause
- Drive-thru times are measured and a custom build stalls the line
- Fix
- Order the two items as items. Nothing about this needs the kitchen's help, so the request never has to be made.
Adding a patty to the chicken sandwich cost a fortune
- Cause
- Add-on charges are set locally and Wendy's publishes none of them
- Fix
- Ask the price before confirming, or take the two-sandwich route where both figures are known in advance.
There is no Barnyard Burger option in the app
- Cause
- The app exposes configured modifiers, not multi-sandwich assembly
- Fix
- Add two sandwiches to the basket. Extra patties and held ingredients usually appear; merging two products into one never will.
The bacon was missing
- Cause
- Most likely the cheaper route was ordered without noticing where the bacon sits
- Fix
- On the $4.68 route the bacon comes from the Crispy Chicken BLT rather than the burger, so a plain Jr. Cheeseburger is correct there.
What’s fixed, and what actually varies
The arithmetic is unusually firm on this one, because Wendy's publishes its own prices. What the crew will do is the open question.
Fixed
- The build is beef, crispy chicken and bacon in a single sandwich
- Every component is a permanent listed item with a published price
- Two sandwiches cost two sandwich prices, with nothing taken off
- 690 calories is the sum of the two company figures on the usual route
- No Wendy's is obliged to assemble it for you
Varies
- Which two items people mean, since three pairings reach the same result
- Whether a franchisee prices above the figures Wendy's posts centrally
- Whether the crew will combine the two or hand over two wrappers
- The cost of adding a beef patty to a chicken sandwich, which is unpublished
- How a timed drive-thru responds compared with a quiet counter
Put both items in the Wendy's app basket with your restaurant selected and read the subtotal before paying. That number is the answer for that address, and it is the only one that binds. Where it comes out well above $5.88, the cause is local pricing rather than a charge for the request itself.
The same sandwich by four different routes
Guides describe this build the same way every time, as a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger with a chicken fillet added, and then stop before the interesting part. Wendy's posts its own prices, which means the build can be costed properly rather than guessed at, and once you do that the routes stop looking equivalent.
The standard pairing is a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger at $2.89 and a Crispy Chicken Sandwich at $2.99. That is $5.88 for 690 calories, using the company's own counts of 350 and 340. Everyone who writes about this recommends it.
One cheaper pairing does the same job. A Crispy Chicken BLT already carries the bacon, at $2.69, so pairing it with a plain Jr. Cheeseburger at $1.99 reaches beef, crispy chicken and bacon for $4.68. Calories land at 690 there too, which is a coincidence worth checking rather than a rounding. That is $1.20 saved for the same three components.
Going the other way, a Spicy Chicken Sandwich at $4.89 takes the pair to $7.78 and 910 calories. For scale, a Baconator is $7.69. The single-item route is the one that cannot be priced at all. Adding a beef patty to an Asiago Ranch Club Sandwich at $6.99 keeps everything on one till line, and no published figure says what that patty costs. Any total quoted for that version is somebody's receipt.
Ordering is the easy half. The Wendy's Company's Form 10-K for fiscal 2025 counts 5,969 US restaurants, most of them run by franchisees, so the person deciding whether to help is standing in front of you and answers to an operator rather than to head office. Ask in ingredients, off-peak, and the question rarely comes up. The name is the only part of this that ever causes trouble.
Questions people ask
What is the Wendy's Barnyard Burger?
Beef, crispy chicken and bacon in one sandwich. It is a customer build, put together from listed items, and Wendy's has never sold it as a product.
How much does it cost?
$5.88 by the usual route, being a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger at $2.89 and a Crispy Chicken Sandwich at $2.99. Both are prices Wendy's publishes itself.
Is there a cheaper way to build one?
Yes. A Jr. Cheeseburger at $1.99 with a Crispy Chicken BLT at $2.69 comes to $4.68, and the BLT brings the bacon, so nothing is missing.
How many calories are in it?
690 on either of those two routes, adding Wendy's own counts. The spicy version rises to 910 because the Spicy Chicken Sandwich is a larger fillet.
Can I just ask for a patty on a chicken sandwich?
You can, and it keeps everything on one line. The catch is that no add-on charge is published, so the total cannot be known until it is rung up.
Will Wendy's staff build it for me?
Sometimes, off-peak, as a favour. There is no obligation, no button and no bundle price, which is why ordering two items and stacking them is the reliable move.
Are these prices official?
They are Wendy's own, posted on the company's ordering site and read on 19 August 2026. What a restaurant charges can still differ, because most are franchised.