Welcome to Cookout Menu with Prices 2026, your simple guide to the best items from the Cookout restaurant. Here you can explore the full Cookout menu and check updated Cookout prices in one place.
Char grilled burgers, BBQ, hot dogs and 36 milkshake flavors across 366 locations in 11 states. Every item, price and calorie count sits on this page, starting at $0.99.
Every burger hits the grill when you order it. This site tracks all 123 items with live prices and full nutrition data.
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Cookout is a privately held fast food chain built around a char grill and a drive thru window. It opened in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1989 and has stayed deliberately regional since, with 366 restaurants across 11 states rather than a national rollout. The format sits closer to a drive in than a sit down restaurant: most locations are laid out around drive thru lanes with a walk up window and outdoor seating instead of a full indoor dining room, and that low overhead is a large part of why the prices land where they do.
What the chain is known for is range at a low price. The board carries char grilled burgers, chopped pork BBQ in the North Carolina style, char grilled hot dogs, chicken breasts and strips, quesadillas, a short list of sides built on fries and hushpuppies, and 36 hand spun milkshake flavors. Very little of it crosses $6.65 for a single item.
The menu itself splits two ways across 12 sections and 123 items. One half is single items, ordered on their own. The other half is the tray, which bundles a main with two sides and a large drink under one price. Nearly every main can be ordered either way, and that one choice drives most of what a visit costs.
A tray is the Cookout combo meal and the most ordered thing on the board. One main, two sides and a large drink arrive together under a single price, starting at $2.99 and reaching $6.65 for the largest build. Sixteen trays sit on the menu and between them they cover nearly every main the kitchen makes.
The reason it gets ordered is arithmetic. Two sides and a large drink bought separately cost more than the gap between a tray and the same main on its own, so the tray is almost always the cheaper route to identical food. A regular order of fries by itself is already $0.99.
Choice is where the tray earns its reputation. The main comes from nearly any section: burgers, BBQ, hot dogs, char grilled or fried chicken, or a quesadilla. Both sides come off the full sides list, so hushpuppies, onion rings, cheese fries and chili fries all count. The large drink can be traded for a milkshake for a small upcharge, which turns a tray into a full meal with dessert for close to the same money.
Cook Out is a Southern chain rather than a national one. It opened in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1989, still runs out of Thomasville, North Carolina, and almost everything it is known for traces back to that: Carolina vinegar BBQ, hushpuppies, Cheerwine, and a char grill still working at 2 AM. Six things come up more than the rest.
Char Grilled Burgers
North Carolina BBQ
The Cook Out Tray
36 Milkshake Flavors
Hushpuppies
Cheerwine FloatsAll six run on one menu, all day. Cook Out serves no breakfast and pulls nothing off the board late, so every item here is available from 10:30 AM until close, which is 3 AM at most of the 366 restaurants and 4 AM on Friday and Saturday. The cheapest thing on it costs $0.99 and the most expensive costs $6.65. Every one of the 123 prices is in the table above.
Cookout publishes no prices of its own. Nothing on the website, nothing in the app until you are at the window, which is exactly why Cookout menu prices are so hard to pin down before a trip. Every figure on this page was read off live ordering menus at real restaurants and cross checked between them, so it reflects what those stores were charging rather than an estimate.
They still move. The chain is privately held and sets no national price, so the same burger can sit a few cents apart between two towns, and delivery apps price higher again than the in store board. Treat everything here as the going rate rather than a promise, and expect small differences at the counter.
Use the menu above as the reference point. It carries all 123 items with prices and calorie counts, from $0.99 up to $6.65, and it rebuilds every week so a change shows up here rather than going stale. Each section also breaks out onto its own page. For the final word on today's price at one specific restaurant, that store's phone number is on its page in the locator.
First visits go slowly, because the board is long and nothing on it is grouped. Work the Cookout menu above in this order and the whole thing takes under a minute.
Start with the 12 sections above. Every one of the 123 items carries its price and calorie count, so you can settle the whole order before you leave the house.
This is the choice that sets your bill. A tray from $2.99 bundles a main, two sides and a large drink. A single item from $0.99 is cheaper on its own but costs more once you add anything to it.
Burgers, BBQ, hot dogs, char grilled or fried chicken, quesadillas and wraps all work as a tray main. Char grilled items are cooked when you order, so they set the wait.
Both come off the full sides list at no extra cost inside a tray: fries, cheese fries, chili fries, cheese and chili fries, onion rings or hushpuppies. Bought alone they run from $0.99 each.
A large drink is included. Trading it for one of the 36 milkshake flavors costs a small upcharge and is the cheapest way to get one, since a shake ordered separately starts at $2.79.
Prices move a few cents between towns and closing times differ, so confirm both before you drive out. All 366 restaurants are in the store locator with hours, address and phone.
Almost every restaurant opens at 10:30 AM and runs the full Cookout menu straight through to closing. There is no breakfast service and no limited late night board.
Most close at 3 AM, and at 4 AM on Friday and Saturday, which is later than nearly anything else with a drive through. Hours were checked one restaurant at a time rather than assumed from a chain average.
Hours & Holiday ClosuresCalorie counts sit beside 108 of the 123 items on the Cookout menu, and 110 carry full macros: protein, carbs, fat, sugar, fiber and sodium.
The numbers move more than people expect. A single milkshake can carry more calories than a full tray, so totalling the whole order matters more than picking one item well.
Build & Total an OrderCook Out runs no coupon program, no app offers and no rotating promotions, so there is nothing to clip or wait for. The value is built into the Cookout menu itself and it does not expire.
That means the tray at $2.99, and the items at $0.99 that stay there all year. Our specials page ranks what actually costs least per calorie.
Cheapest Items RankedA full tray with two sides and a drink starts at $2.99. Check every price before you drive out.
Cookout publishes no prices of its own. Not on the website, not in the app, nothing until you are standing at the window. Most menu sites fill that gap by copying each other and hoping the numbers still hold. Not one figure on this page came from another menu site. Every price, calorie count and opening time was pulled from a live Cookout source, store by store, and the whole page rebuilds every week.
Prices are read off live Cookout ordering menus at real store locations and cross checked between them, so what you see is what those restaurants were charging, not an estimate. Nutrition comes from the chain's own published nutrition data, and every address and set of opening hours was checked against that restaurant's own listing, one store at a time, all 366 of them.
Cookout started in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1989 and stays privately held, which is why it never posts a price and why the same burger can cost a few cents more one town over. This page rebuilds every week, so when a number moves the page moves with it. For the final word on today's price, call your nearest location; for everything else, this page has it covered.
366 restaurants across 11 states and 276 cities. Search for today's hours and directions.
Cookout runs its own app for pickup, and most locations sit on DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub. Delivery menus price higher than the in store board.
Twelve menus, from 36 shake flavors to trays.
Every item carries a current price and calorie count.
Add items in the nutrition calculator or meal planner.
366 restaurants with today's hours.
Full nutrition data on 110 items: calories, protein, sodium, carbs and more.
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