--- title: Fast Food Chains Wage Low-Price Hot Dog Wars description: After Burger King added a hot dog to its menu, other fast food chains are trying to outdo each other to market the cheapest hot dog. authors: - name: Kerry Close url: https://money.com/author/kerry-close/ at_money_since: 2016 articles: 182 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/kerryclose former_staff: true published: '2016-02-24T16:02:44.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T10:07:08.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - 7-Eleven - Burger King - Fast Food - Hot Dog - pubdesk word_count: 342 canonical: https://money.com/fast-food-hot-dog-wars/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Hot dogs on yellow background](https://img.money.com/2016/02/160224_em_hotdogwar.jpg) Every dog has its day, and U.S. fast food chains are battling one another to make sure it's their dog that takes home top honors. In some cases, both the prices and the maturity level of competitors are going straight downhill. On Tuesday, Burger King released its Grilled Dogs, priced at $1.99 each or $2.39 with chili. Competitors who have been hawking hot dogs long before BK entered the fray have responded with a wide range of wiener deals. Checkers & Rally's fired back by dropping the price of its hot dogs to only $0.79 and its chili dogs to $0.99. On Wednesday, the Florida-based burger chain also placed a full-page ad in *USA Today* challenging Burger King to ["compare wieners."](http://www.wowktv.com/story/31300912/checkers-rallys-ignites-wiener-war-with-full-page-ad-in-usa-today) "We're engaged in a fun, aggressive and provocative Wiener War with Burger King," said Terri Snyder, chief marketing officer of Checkers & Rally's, in a news release. West coast chain Wienerschnitzel went one step further: It will offer a coupon for a [free all-beef hot dog with chili](http://burgerbusiness.com/bk-extends-long-concept-to-breakfast/) with any purchase through the end of February. Meanwhile, 7-Eleven has eagerly jumped into the mix by promoting its own dogs with a series of provocative, trash-talking tweets: > .[@BurgerKing](https://twitter.com/BurgerKing) - In the great hot dog war, there can only be one weiner. [pic.twitter.com/mfoOgzY72T](https://t.co/mfoOgzY72T) > > — 7-Eleven (@7eleven) [February 23, 2016](https://twitter.com/7eleven/status/702200504978436096) [//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js](//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js) > Kings selling hot dogs? What's next, dictators selling Slurpees? LOLOLOL [pic.twitter.com/SHlmAWqLXz](https://t.co/SHlmAWqLXz) > > — 7-Eleven (@7eleven) [February 23, 2016](https://twitter.com/7eleven/status/702215601465520128) [//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js](//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js) Burger King hasn't yet responded to the jabs from its competitors. Burger King simply promoted its new menu item Tuesday with the tweet, "#GrilledDogs are now available at Burger King. What a time to be alive." The burger chain's nationwide hot dog roll-out follows a test last year in five U.S. cities: Salt Lake City, Memphis, Baltimore, Detroit, and Kansas City. This is not the first time this year the chain has found itself embroiled in a price war with other fast food joints. 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