Side Salad
Side Salad at Chick-fil-A. 470 calories, $4.35, 6 g protein.
Photograph from Chick-fil-A, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Chick-fil-A menu
At 470 calories it is heavier than 71% of the 277 Chick-fil-A items we track, against a menu median of 320. It delivers 1.3 g of protein per 100 calories, 200th of 220 items with published protein. At 108 calories per dollar it is 36th of 205 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Chick-fil-A
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken Sandwich | 466 | −4 |
| Spicy Deluxe Sandwich W/ No cheese | 460 | −10 |
| Small Southwest Veggie Wrap Tray | 460 | −10 |
| Grilled Chicken Bundle | 460 | −10 |
| Large Southwest Veggie Wrap Tray | 460 | −10 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| McDonald's | Side Salad | 18 | 170.98 |
What a Side Salad costs across America
Priced at 2896 Chick-fil-A restaurants in 49 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $4.19 and $4.75, a spread of 13%.
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 Side Salad in the sample is $3.99 in Covington, GA, and the most expensive is $5.95 in New York, 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 46 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 38 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA | $4.19 | 237 | cheapest |
| NC | $4.19 | 167 | cheapest |
| AL | $4.19 | 85 | cheapest |
| TX | $4.19 | 420 | cheapest |
| HI | $5.29 | 6 | most expensive |
| CA | $5.09 | 215 | most expensive |
| DC | $4.89 | 7 | most expensive |
| WA | $4.75 | 30 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
None of the 3,027 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-09-05. A typical one charges $4.35.
2026-09-05 · $4.29 to 2026-09-26 · $4.35. 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.
See every Side Salad we price on the map — 2,896 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at Chick-fil-A
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Side Salad’s $4.35. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon, Egg & Cheese Muffin | $4.39 | 18% | 2,713 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese Muffin | $4.39 | 18% | 2,709 |
| Frosted Mello Yello® | $4.29 | 9% | 221 |
| Medium Fruit Cup | $4.25 | 16% | 2,904 |
| Medium Mac & Cheese | $4.25 | 16% | 2,890 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 35 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 8 g |
| Sodium | 700 mg |
| Sugars | 5 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 14 g |
| Total Fat | 42 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.