Large Red Beans & Rice
Large Red Beans & Rice at Popeyes. 640 calories, $5.99, 18 g protein.
Photograph from Popeyes, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Popeyes menu
At 640 calories it is heavier than 82% of the 60 Popeyes items we track, against a menu median of 230. It delivers 2.8 g of protein per 100 calories, 18th of 27 items with published protein. At 107 calories per dollar it is 26th of 48 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Popeyes
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich | 630 | −10 |
| Large Hawaiian Punch | 620 | −20 |
| Caramel Apple Cheesecake Cup | 460 | −180 |
| Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Cup | 400 | −240 |
| Strawberry Cupcake Cup | 350 | −290 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taco Bell | Black Beans and Rice | 160 | — |
What a Large Red Beans & Rice costs across America
Priced at 3043 Popeyes restaurants in 48 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $5.39 and $7.15, a spread of 33%.
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 Red Beans & Rice in the sample is $3.79 in Fort Hood, TX, 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 47 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 39 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS | $5.29 | 68 | cheapest |
| TN | $5.29 | 61 | cheapest |
| AR | $5.49 | 50 | cheapest |
| AZ | $5.49 | 55 | cheapest |
| WA | $7.49 | 19 | most expensive |
| ID | $7.45 | 5 | most expensive |
| OR | $7.29 | 20 | most expensive |
| CA | $7.09 | 274 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
20 of the 3,068 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-03. Where it moved, the typical change was +5.2%. A typical one now charges $5.99.
Priced like this at Popeyes
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Large Red Beans & 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 Cajun Rice | $5.99 | 32% | 913 |
| 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 | 25 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 13 g |
| Protein | 18 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 1420 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 73 g |
| Total Fat | 40 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
The nutrition label as Popeyes publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.