Cookout in Hickory, NC

Cookout Hickory, NC Menu

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About Cookout in Hickory

Cook Out runs two restaurants in Hickory, at 1710 N. Center Street and 1935 US Highway 70 SE. Hickory accounts for two of the 144 across North Carolina. The closest restaurant outside the city is in Conover, about 7 miles away, which matters on a night when the local one has a queue.

Food is cooked to order on a char grill rather than pulled from a warmer, which adds a minute or two at the window. The building follows the chain pattern, built around drive thru service with a walk up window and outside seating. Between them they average 3.8 out of 5 on Google. One menu runs the whole day, with no reduced overnight board.

Dining at Cookout in Hickory

Char grilled chicken starts at $2.99 and chicken strips at $3.39. Wraps are $1.79 each, and a milkshake from the 36 flavor list begins at $2.79. Prices at Hickory restaurants are set locally rather than nationally, so expect small differences of a few cents from the figures here. The full menu carries every item with its price and calorie count.

The Hickory restaurants open at 10:30 AM and serve until 3:00 AM, with Friday and Saturday running to 4:00 AM. There is no breakfast service, so the full menu starts the moment the doors open. Order at the drive thru or the walk up window, or use the Cook Out app for pickup. Delivery runs through DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub at most locations, priced above the in store board.

Larger orders are simpler here than the format suggests. A tray is a finished meal on its own, so ordering in bulk needs no sides worked out separately. There is no catering department to book, so anything sizeable in Hickory goes through the restaurant on the phone, ideally with warning ahead of time.