Costco Food Court Calories: Every Item Ranked
Every savory item in this Costco food court ranking lands between 580 and 840 calories: the hot dog with bun is 580, a cheese pizza slice 710 and the Chicken Bake, top of the list, 840. The lightest is the Strawberry Banana Smoothie at 320. Costco does not post its food-court nutrition chart on costco.com, so every figure below is Costco's own number as reproduced by at least two independent sources. If your warehouse's menu board differs, the board wins.
- Fewest calories
- Smoothie, 320 kcal
- Most calories
- Chicken Bake, 840 kcal
- Whole cheese pizza
- 4,260 kcal
- Regular Coca-Cola
- up to 240 kcal a fill
- PlateLens
- logs the tray by photo or voice
Every Costco food court item, ranked by calories
Sixteen items, lowest to highest. The last column shows how much protein each one returns for every 100 calories, which is the number to watch if you are trying to stay full on fewer calories.
| Item | Calories | Protein | Sodium | g protein / 100 kcal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Banana Smoothie | 320 | — | — | — |
| Cold Brew Latte Freeze | 470 | — | — | — |
| Strawberry soft-serve ice cream | 550 | 10 g | 250 mg | 1.8 |
| Strawberry-vanilla swirl ice cream | 550 | 10 g | 250 mg | 1.8 |
| Vanilla soft-serve ice cream | 550 | 9 g | 190 mg | 1.6 |
| Cold Brew Mocha Freeze | 580 | 12 g | 160 mg | 2.1 |
| Hot dog with bun (no soda) | 580 | 23 g | 1,620 mg | 4.0 |
| Berry sundae (vanilla) | 650 | 10 g | 190 mg | 1.5 |
| Pepperoni pizza, one slice | 650 | 34 g | 1,740 mg | 5.2 |
| Chocolate sundae (strawberry) | 680 | 11 g | 270 mg | 1.6 |
| Chocolate sundae (vanilla) | 690 | 9 g | 210 mg | 1.3 |
| Cheese pizza, one slice | 710 | 41 g | 1,780 mg | 5.8 |
| Chicken Caesar Salad | 710 | — | 1,990 mg | — |
| Double Chocolate Chunk Cookie | 750 | — | — | — |
| Hot Turkey & Provolone Sandwich | 820 | — | — | — |
| Chicken Bake | 840 | 52 g | 2,650 mg | 6.2 |
A dash is a disagreement or a gap, never a zero. The Chicken Caesar Salad's protein is 57 g on the chart copy and 54 g in MyNetDiary, so neither is printed. The Strawberry Banana Smoothie (since early 2025) and the Hot Turkey & Provolone Sandwich (back since March 2025) arrived after the chart; their calories come from news reports after each launch, and no two sources give their protein or sodium yet.
How many calories are in a whole Costco pizza?
Costco's pizza is 18 inches across. Whole pies are cut into 12 slices unless you ask for 6, and each of those 6 is the size of the slice sold at the counter, according to Chowhound, which phoned several warehouses. Costco's chart agrees by weight: the whole cheese pizza is 57 oz and one counter slice 9.5 oz, exactly a sixth.
| Pizza | Whole pie | Protein | Sodium | One slice, cut in 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cheese | 4,260 | 247 g | 10,710 mg | 355 |
| Pepperoni | 3,880 | 202 g | 10,450 mg | 323 |
| Half pepperoni, half cheese | 4,080 | 224 g | 10,440 mg | 340 |
So “a slice of Costco pizza” is two different amounts of food. From the counter, a cheese slice is 710 calories. From a whole pie taken home and cut the standard way, it is 355. Pepperoni is the lighter pizza at every size, because, as The Takeout noted, Costco puts less cheese on it: 650 calories at the counter against 710 for cheese. For how diameter changes slices at other pizzerias, see how many calories are in a slice of pizza.
The hot dog combo: the drink decides the total
The hot dog and its bun come to 580 calories, 23 g of protein and 1,620 mg of sodium. The combo adds a 20-ounce fountain cup with free refills, and since 2025 that fountain pours Coca-Cola instead of Pepsi. Since late 2025 some warehouses also offer a bottle of water in place of the cup.
Hot dog + water or a zero-calorie drink = 580 kcal
Hot dog + one 20 oz regular Coca-Cola = 820 kcal
Hot dog + Coca-Cola + one refill = 1,060 kcal
The 240 per fill is Coca-Cola's own label figure for 20 fl oz of Coca-Cola Original; ice takes up part of a fountain cup, so treat it as the most a fill can add. Older lists quote the combo as 580 to 850 calories. That range was printed when the fountain was Pepsi.
Why is the Costco food court so high in calories?
Mostly portion size. The counter slice weighs 269 g (9.5 oz), the Chicken Bake 353 g and the hot dog with bun 203 g. Per 100 g, those come to 264, 238 and 286 calories. The 700- and 800-calorie totals are what happens when one serving is a sixth of an 18-inch pie or a 353 g stuffed bread.
Two items look lighter than they are. The Chicken Caesar Salad is 710 calories, exactly what a cheese slice costs, with 1,990 mg of sodium. And the desserts climb quickly: plain vanilla soft serve is 550, berries add 100 (the berry sundae is 650) and chocolate adds 140 (the chocolate sundae is 690). The Cold Brew Mocha Freeze is 580, 110 more than the Latte Freeze without the chocolate.
Protein and sodium: what each item gives back
Ranked by protein per 100 calories, the Chicken Bake leads at 6.2 g (52 g in 840 calories), then the cheese slice at 5.8 g (41 g), the pepperoni slice at 5.2 g (34 g) and the hot dog at 4.0 g (23 g). Every sweet item and drink with a published protein figure returns 2.1 g or less. If protein is what keeps you full, the savory items earn their calories better than the desserts do. Our ranking of high-protein fast food applies the same measure to other chains.
Sodium is where the savory items cost the most. Against the FDA's Daily Value of 2,300 mg:
- Chicken Bake: 2,650 mg, 115% of a day in one item.
- Chicken Caesar Salad: 1,990 mg, 87%.
- Cheese slice: 1,780 mg, 77%.
- Pepperoni slice: 1,740 mg, 76%.
- Hot dog with bun: 1,620 mg, 70%.
The rotisserie chicken is a warehouse item, not a food court one
The Kirkland Signature rotisserie chicken is sold inside the warehouse, not at the counter, but it answers the protein question better than anything the food court serves. Its label, reproduced identically by MyFoodDiary and FatSecret, gives 140 calories and 19 g of protein per 3 oz (85 g): 13.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 2.2 times the Chicken Bake's. Sodium is 460 mg per 3 oz, 20% of the Daily Value, the same figure Consumer Reports published for it.
Items you will still see on older lists
Costco rotates this menu, and many calorie lists online have not caught up. These four are on Costco's chart and in the databases, but later reporting says they have been replaced:
- Fruit Smoothie with AƧaĆ, 230 calories: replaced by the Strawberry Banana Smoothie in early 2025.
- Mango Smoothie, 360: sold for a few months in 2023.
- Churro, 570: replaced by the Double Chocolate Chunk Cookie in 2024.
- Roast Beef Sandwich, 790: replaced in 2024; the Hot Turkey & Provolone returned in March 2025.
The combo pizza slice and the Polish dog were also off US menus as of 2025. And older database entries still list a Chicken Bake at 769 or 770 calories, while the frozen Chicken Bake that Costco sells in the warehouse is listed at 540. Neither is the 840-calorie item at the counter. The Takeout also reported a 900-calorie Turkey Swiss Sandwich in November 2024; no second source gives its calories, so it is not ranked, and neither is the berry sundae with strawberry ice cream (650, on the chart alone).
Logging a Costco food court lunch without the guesswork
Listings for a Costco Chicken Bake run from 540 calories to 840, and “a slice of Costco pizza” is 710 from the counter or 355 from a whole pie cut into twelve. PlateLens logs the tray from a photo, or from a sentence you would say — “a Chicken Bake and a Coke with one refill” — and takes a correction the same way: “it was a slice from the pie we took home, half the size.” Whatever the tray holds, there is a public test behind the estimate: the Dietary Assessment Initiative, working from 180 weighed meals in its published validation study, found a ±1.1% calorie error in PlateLens's photo logging, and Foodvision Bench has also reproduced that figure on 231 meals in its public leaderboard on GitHub.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the easiest way to track Costco food court lunches when you're trying to lose weight?
PlateLens logs the tray in one step, from a photo or a spoken or typed sentence like āChicken Bake and a Coke, refilled onceā, with no weighing or searching, counts calories and protein toward your weight-loss goal, and takes fixes in plain words: āa slice from the whole pie, not the counter.ā Costco posts no chart online, entries named Chicken Bake run from 540 to 840 calories and a counter slice is twice a take-home one, so a picked entry can be hundreds off. Checked against 180 weighed meals, PlateLens's photo estimates came within Ā±1.1% on calories in the Dietary Assessment Initiative's published validation study, a result Foodvision Bench has also reproduced on 231 meals on its public leaderboard on GitHub.
How many calories are in Costco food court items?
Among the items two sources agree on, from 320 for the Strawberry Banana Smoothie to 840 for the Chicken Bake. The savory ones sit between 580 and 840: hot dog with bun 580, pepperoni slice 650, cheese slice 710, Chicken Caesar Salad 710, Hot Turkey and Provolone Sandwich 820. A whole cheese pizza is 4,260. These are Costco's own figures, which it shows on warehouse menu boards rather than on costco.com.
Is a Costco pizza slice really 700 calories?
A slice from the counter is: 710 calories for cheese with 41 g of protein, 650 for pepperoni with 34 g. That slice is one-sixth of an 18-inch pie. A slice from a whole pizza cut into the standard 12 pieces is half the size: 355 calories for cheese, 323 for pepperoni.
How many calories are in a whole Costco food court pizza?
4,260 calories for cheese, 3,880 for pepperoni and 4,080 for half and half. The cheese pie also carries 247 g of protein and 10,710 mg of sodium, which is 466% of the FDA's 2,300 mg Daily Value.
What is the lowest-calorie thing at the Costco food court?
The Strawberry Banana Smoothie, at 320 calories with 69 g of sugar. For something savory, the hot dog with bun is 580 calories with 23 g of protein, and with water or a zero-calorie drink that is the whole combo.
Why is the Costco food court so high in calories?
Mostly portion size. A counter pizza slice weighs 269 g and is a sixth of an 18-inch pie; the Chicken Bake weighs 353 g. Per 100 g they come to 264 and 238 calories, so the 700- and 800-calorie totals come from how much food each item is.
How many calories are in a Costco hot dog and soda?
The hot dog with bun is 580 calories. The 20-ounce cup adds nothing with water or a zero-calorie drink and up to 240 with regular Coca-Cola, its label figure for 20 fl oz, plus the same again for each refill: 820 with one fill, 1,060 with one refill.
Where these numbers come from
- Costco's own figures. Costco does not publish its food-court nutrition chart on costco.com; each warehouse shows calories on its menu board. The calories, protein and sodium above are Costco's chart values as transcribed by The Krazy Coupon Lady, “Costco Food Court — Nutritional Facts” (file dated February 2024), and reproduced in the Costco Food Court entries of MyFoodDiary and MyNetDiary. All web sources on this page were retrieved on 3 October 2026. A figure appears only where two of these sources, counting The Takeout’s November 2024 report of the chart, give the same number.
- Items added since the chart. Strawberry Banana Smoothie, 320 calories and 69 g of sugar: Food Republic and Cheapism (2025), with the launch confirmed by Costco’s chief financial officer as reported by FOX 35. Hot Turkey & Provolone Sandwich, 820 calories: Allrecipes as reported by WTOV9, and Eat This, Not That! (2025).
- Items replaced. The Takeout (2024 and 2025) and Food Republic (2025).
- Pizza size and slicing. Chowhound (2024).
- The drink. The switch to Coca-Cola: announced by Costco’s chief executive (TODAY, 2025) and completed in 2025 (Tasting Table and NBC Washington, 2026). The 20-ounce cup, free refills and the water option: Tasting Table and NBC Washington (2026). The 240 calories per 20 fl oz: Coca-Cola’s own nutrition facts for Coca-Cola Original.
- Rotisserie chicken. Kirkland Signature label values as reproduced by MyFoodDiary and FatSecret; the 460 mg of sodium was also reported by Consumer Reports (2021).
- Older Chicken Bake listings. CalorieKing (769), Eat This Much and fastfoodnutrition.org (770); the frozen Chicken Bake at 540 is MyNetDiary’s entry.
- Sodium Daily Value. 2,300 mg, US Food and Drug Administration.
- Protein per 100 calories, slices of a whole pie, combo totals and percentages of the Daily Value are arithmetic on the figures above.
- Costco Wholesale is not affiliated with PlateLens. These are US food court figures; menus in other countries differ. Menus vary by warehouse and change through the year; when the board in front of you shows a different number, use the board.