Large Mac & Cheese
Large Mac & Cheese at Chick-fil-A. 450 calories, $8.29, 20 g protein.
Photograph from Chick-fil-A, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Chick-fil-A menu
At 450 calories it is heavier than 66% of the 277 Chick-fil-A items we track, against a menu median of 320. It delivers 4.4 g of protein per 100 calories, 124th of 220 items with published protein. At 54 calories per dollar it is 147th of 205 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Chick-fil-A
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken & Waffles Breakfast Sandwich W/ Grilled Filet | 440 | −10 |
| Grilled Chicken Club W/ No cheese | 440 | −10 |
| Market Salad W/ No Chicken | 440 | −10 |
| Chick-fil-A® Deluxe Sandwich W/ No cheese | 430 | −20 |
| Chick-fil-A® Chicken Sandwich | 420 | −30 |
What a Large Mac & Cheese costs across America
Priced at 2836 Chick-fil-A restaurants in 49 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $7.95 and $9.09, a spread of 14%.
Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.
Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.
The cheapest Large Mac & Cheese in the sample is $7.65 in Covington, GA, and the most expensive is $10.59 in Brooklyn, NY. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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By state, for what it is worth
About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 45 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 37 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | $7.95 | 86 | cheapest |
| GA | $7.99 | 237 | cheapest |
| NC | $7.99 | 146 | cheapest |
| TX | $7.99 | 408 | cheapest |
| HI | $10.39 | 6 | most expensive |
| CA | $9.79 | 212 | most expensive |
| WA | $9.09 | 30 | most expensive |
| NY | $9.09 | 68 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
None of the 2,970 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-09-05. A typical one charges $8.29.
2026-09-05 · $8.25 to 2026-09-26 · $8.29. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.
The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.
Priced like this at Chick-fil-A
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Large Mac & Cheese’s $8.29. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken & Waffles Sandwich w/ Chick-fil-A® Filet | $8.29 | 23% | 2,919 |
| Grilled Chicken Club w/ No Cheese | $8.39 | 16% | 2,898 |
| Chick-fil-A Cool Wrap® | $8.45 | 16% | 2,856 |
| Chicken & Waffles Sandwich w/ Spicy Filet | $8.69 | 22% | 2,918 |
| 12 ct Grilled Nuggets | $8.69 | 18% | 2,905 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 70 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 20 g |
| Saturated Fat | 16 g |
| Sodium | 1190 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 28 g |
| Total Fat | 29 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
The nutrition label as Chick-fil-A publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.