Large Cajun Rice
Large Cajun Rice at Popeyes. 780 calories, $5.99, 31 g protein.
Photograph from Popeyes, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Popeyes menu
At 780 calories it is heavier than 88% of the 60 Popeyes items we track, against a menu median of 230. It delivers 4.0 g of protein per 100 calories, 17th of 27 items with published protein. At 130 calories per dollar it is 18th of 48 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Popeyes
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Chicken Sandwich | 700 | −80 |
| Spicy Chicken Sandwich | 700 | −80 |
| Large Red Beans & Rice | 640 | −140 |
| Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich | 630 | −150 |
| Large Hawaiian Punch | 620 | −160 |
What a Large Cajun Rice costs across America
Priced at 913 Popeyes restaurants in 40 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $5.29 and $6.99, a spread of 32%.
It is on the menu at 913 of the 3050 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.
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.
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The cheapest Large Cajun Rice in the sample is $3.99 in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, and the most expensive is $9.49 in Winder, GA. 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 32 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 24 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS | $5.29 | 63 | cheapest |
| TN | $5.29 | 42 | cheapest |
| AR | $5.49 | 22 | cheapest |
| KS | $5.49 | 3 | cheapest |
| CA | $7.39 | 34 | most expensive |
| NJ | $6.99 | 8 | most expensive |
| NY | $6.99 | 35 | most expensive |
| FL | $6.99 | 24 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
1 of the 1,043 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-09-04. A typical one now charges $5.99.
Priced like this at Popeyes
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Large Cajun Rice’s $5.99. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Large Red Beans & Rice | $5.99 | 33% | 3,043 |
| Spicy Chicken Sandwich | $5.49 | 9% | 3,041 |
| Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich | $5.49 | 9% | 3,012 |
| Gallon Hawaiian Punch | $6.99 | 50% | 2,727 |
| Spicy Bacon & Cheese Chicken Sandwich | $7.19 | 28% | 3,030 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 105 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 31 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 1650 mg |
| Sugars | 1 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 107 g |
| Total Fat | 26 g |
| Trans Fat | 1 g |
The nutrition label as Popeyes publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.