Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Spicy Chicken Sandwich at Popeyes. 700 calories, $5.49, 28 g protein.
Photograph from Popeyes, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the Popeyes menu
At 700 calories it is heavier than 85% of the 60 Popeyes items we track, against a menu median of 230. It delivers 4.0 g of protein per 100 calories, 16th of 27 items with published protein. At 128 calories per dollar it is 20th of 48 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at Popeyes
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Large Red Beans & Rice | 640 | −60 |
| Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich | 630 | −70 |
| Large Hawaiian Punch | 620 | −80 |
| Caramel Apple Cheesecake Cup | 460 | −240 |
| Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Cup | 400 | −300 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chick-fil-A | Small Spicy Chilled Grilled Chicken Sub Sandwich Tray | 220 | — |
| Chick-fil-A | Large Spicy Chilled Grilled Chicken Sub Sandwich Tray | 220 | — |
| Burger King | Chicken Jr. | 440 | — |
| Chick-fil-A | Spicy Chicken Sandwich | 450 | — |
| Chick-fil-A | Chicken Sandwich | 466 | 7.82 |
| Chick-fil-A | Spicy Chilled Grilled Chicken Sub Sandwich | 500 | — |
What a Spicy Chicken Sandwich costs across America
Priced at 3041 Popeyes restaurants in 48 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $5.49 and $5.99, a spread of 9%.
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 Spicy Chicken Sandwich in the sample is $4.49 in Montgomery, AL, and the most expensive is $9.99 in Anchorage, AK. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL | $5.49 | 72 | cheapest |
| IL | $5.49 | 151 | cheapest |
| FL | $5.49 | 185 | cheapest |
| TX | $5.49 | 429 | cheapest |
| AK | $9.99 | 3 | most expensive |
| HI | $7.79 | 11 | most expensive |
| WA | $6.49 | 19 | most expensive |
| OR | $6.45 | 20 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
27 of the 3,067 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-03. Where it moved, the typical change was +6.3%. A typical one now charges $5.49.
See every Spicy Chicken Sandwich we price on the map — 3,041 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at Popeyes
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Spicy Chicken Sandwich’s $5.49. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honey BBQ Chicken Sandwich | $5.49 | 9% | 3,012 |
| Large Red Beans & Rice | $5.99 | 33% | 3,043 |
| Large Cajun Rice | $5.99 | 32% | 913 |
| Gallon Hawaiian Punch | $6.99 | 50% | 2,727 |
| Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Cup | $3.99 | 13% | 1,655 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cholesterol | 90 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 28 g |
| Saturated Fat | 14 g |
| Sodium | 1470 mg |
| Sugars | 8 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 50 g |
| Total Fat | 42 g |
| Trans Fat | 1.5 g |
The nutrition label as Popeyes publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.