Costco Food Court Nutritional Information

May 13th, 2009 · 44 Comments

The other day someone posted a comment looking for some nutritional (specifically, calories) information for a couple of the Costco food court items. Since I didn’t have the information, I asked our friends at the Costco online Customer Service team if they had any information they could send me. They totally came through with a very helpful PDF that lists the complete nutritional and allergen information for 26 items that are served in their food court area.

The nutritional data sheet was last updated almost a year ago now, July 2008. And of course, your food court most likely doesn’t have all 26 items on this list. For instance, I know that my Austin Costco does not have french fries (thankfully). And where do they have Italian Sausage Sandwiches? In any case, this PDF has lots and lots of helpful information if you’re trying to watch your calories or just like to know what you’re eating, nutritionally speaking. Like, who knew that the hot dog or Polish sausage had somewhere between 540 – 570 calories? No wonder they can fill you up like a meal, huh? If you’re looking for low calorie, the Fruit Smoothie with just 290 calories, really is the best bet.

Costco Food Court Nutritional Data (PDF)

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44 Responses so far ↓

1 Jonathan // 2009.05.13 at 1:19 pm

The Italian sausage sandwich is available at NJ Costco locations (go figure) and it’s delicious – it’s a sweet sausage served on a hoagie roll with peppers and onions. Unfortunately my waistline is expanding and I need to cut down on the number of times I visit the food court. Luckily I’ve decided to rely on Costco for fat pants – they’ve got some good deals in basic clothing too.
2 Laura // 2009.05.13 at 3:22 pm

obviously we knew that the hotdogs were high in calories and fat, but geeze look at the chicken wrap, who knew? Thanks for posting this..
3 Kimberly // 2009.05.13 at 4:39 pm

I should have known it was NJ. I wish we had them though because they sound really yummy.
4 Kimberly // 2009.05.13 at 4:41 pm

I think that the Chicken Cesar Salad and the Chicken Bake are shockingly high in calories but what is up iwth the Turkey Wrap? I mean, 810 calories is beyond crazy for one single thing!
5 sfguy // 2009.05.14 at 2:03 am

Fascinating – the chicken bake has less calories, calories from fat and sodium than the turkey wrap. Whoda thunk?
6 Jethro // 2009.05.14 at 1:13 pm

Was quite surprised to see that Trans Fat is still in quite a few of the items. Would have thought this would have been eliminated by now. Thanks for posting this!
7 LeeAnn // 2009.05.15 at 12:06 am

Wow, I am really disappointed. I have celiac disease and two of my kids are gluten intolerant. I had no idea there was wheat in Costco’s hot dogs. I thougth 100% beef meant “just beef.” Dang. There goes another quickie food option for us. Thanks for providing this info though. I can’t find anything about it on the Costco website.
8 Clue // 2009.05.15 at 2:07 am

I’m fairly certain it’s the mayo in the Turkey Wrap that’s the main culprit. Cut that out and I’ll bet you cut out at least 1/3 of the fat and calories. I always special order mine without mayo.

But I also wonder if there is lard being use dint he tortillas for the wraps?

Now as for that sodium load, I’m a bit stymied!
9 Kimberly // 2009.05.15 at 6:39 am

LeeAnn, my guess is that the wheat comes from the hot dog bun, and not the hot dog itself. Unfortunately, I no longer have my package of hot dogs or I could check their ingredients list. I know I looked at the ingredients list and I really remember them being beef and spices. I’ll look at the list of ingredients when I go to Costco this weekend.
10 Kimberly // 2009.05.15 at 6:40 am

Clue, I’ll bet you’re right about the mayo and very possibly the lard too. With regards to the sodium, I’ll bet that comes from the way that they prepare the turkey; I’m guessing they use a brine.
11 Rickie M // 2009.05.15 at 11:18 pm

I used to wonder why Costco has such a preponderence of large sizes in the pants but now I know.. you eat first at the Food Court and then go shop for your new size. Or I guess you can buy pants in anticipation of visiting the Food Court.
12 Michelle // 2009.05.17 at 2:22 pm

Actually, my guess is that most of the fat (and sodium) in the Turkey Wrap is from the Havarti Cheese. It typically has something like 11 grams of fat per 1 oz. serving!
13 Mary // 2009.06.02 at 5:55 pm

Thanks for publishing this. I loved those Mocha Freezes but I just realized that if I get a Latte Freeze I’ll get less calories! Anyone know what the difference is?
14 Omar // 2009.06.19 at 9:46 am

Several of the items listed are actually quite a bit healthier than their counterparts at fast food places. Most items are relatively low in fat, and decent sources of protein. The chicken bake, chicken caesar salad, and turkey wrap are all good items. Don’t blame Costco just because you can’t control the portions you eat. Sure, the turkey wrap has 810 calories, but it is also almost a one pound serving. The chicken caesar is one and a quarter pounds. In typical Costo fashion, items sold at the food court are also kind of “bulk” items. Try sharing with a friend, or saving half for later. If you’d like to cut out more calories and fat, avoid using most if not all dressing, and avoid mayo. Also, LeeAnn, wheat is listed as an allergen because of the bun that the hot dogs are listed on. The nutritional information posted for the hot dogs include the frank, bread, ketchup, mustard, relish, and onion.
15 Fran // 2009.06.22 at 11:18 pm

Does that mean the hot dogs include the roll? Where do they sell the freezes?
Thanks
16 UhoH. // 2009.07.04 at 1:46 am

the nutrition information HAS changed. i work at the food court. on the nutrition information we have it says there is NO sugar in the yogurt! (which i was really surprised at) the hot dog includes the bread, the dog, ketchup, mustard, relish, onions and kraut. i don’t think the turkey wrap has improved. the chicken bake nutrition information really varies because of the difference in size! they actually make the chicken bakes there, so obviously the sizes are going to be different.
17 Destinee // 2009.09.04 at 3:36 pm

is a slice of combination pizza REALLY 680?? or is that the whole damn pizza?
18 B-rye // 2009.09.20 at 12:59 pm

The difference between the mocha and latte freezes is the chocolate I think. They are sold in Michigan, and are fantastic!!
19 Terri // 2009.10.23 at 7:28 pm

I love that you posted the nutritional information for the food court items. I will say NO more often due to sodium restrictions.
Terri
20 Kathy // 2009.10.29 at 4:32 pm

Sheesh! Quitcherbitchin’ about fat, calories and the like! (How is it working for you anyway?) What matters is the SUGAR GRAMS and the carbohydrate. Strive for a maximum of 15gm of sugar per day, and about 80 grams of carbs, and you should lose your belly fat. Go to youtube and check out Dr. Wayne Dyer’s appearance on Ellen on 5/22/09.
21 Greg // 2009.11.12 at 8:18 pm

“is a slice of combination pizza REALLY 680?? or is that the whole damn pizza?”

That sounds about right. Your typical large slice of pizza from Domino’s, etc will have about 350-400 calories. The Costco pizzas are 18″, which works out to nearly twice the size of a 14″ pizza. A Costco slice is easily twice as big as a slice of pizza you’d get elsewhere. Plus Costco loads their pizzas with cheese, while most places put relatively little cheese on their pizzas. Cheese is very high in calories. A “whole damn” Costco pizza probably has more than 5000 calories.
22 Elene // 2009.12.01 at 12:50 am

The link is broken. Please, please find a way to post it again!
23 Kimberly // 2009.12.01 at 8:17 am

Elene, I’ll have to do some investigating because the link to the PDF still works for me.
24 Kimberly // 2009.12.03 at 12:39 pm

I went ahead and moved the Costco Food Court PDF to Google Docs, so that it would possibly be a little faster to download (and thus more reliable). I’ve updated the links in the post or you can just go here: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0Bzb7-0vqRhPyNTFkMTQ0OTctMzBlYS00MzA5LTgyMWMtOGUyMTM3ZTQ4NDY0&hl=en.
25 rebeckah // 2009.12.09 at 12:23 am

Does anyone have an ingredient list of hot dog and pizza?
26 kiva // 2010.01.31 at 11:16 pm

How can a california churro only have 1g of sugar? The whole thing is rolled in sugar! The J&J churro is listed elsewhere on the web as not the one at Costco. What gives?
27 Felen // 2010.02.17 at 3:24 pm

I don’t believe the information in the PDF to be true. That’s too much saturated fat for one slice of combo pizza. The information needs to be reevaluated.
28 Kimberly // 2010.02.17 at 7:12 pm

Well, it came from Costco and I’m sure that they had a nutritional analysis and didn’t just guesstimate. They do use a lot of cheese on their pizza, and my guess is that accounts for the high level of fats.
29 Jenny // 2010.04.23 at 6:23 pm

Thanks for posting this info! I was trying to decide if I should “save up” my calories this afternoon in order to have something for dinner at the food court before we do our shopping, but, no thank you! I shudder when I think a couple weeks ago I had a chicken bake and a mocha freeze in one sitting! Ignorance really is bliss….and a bigger waistline in this case. Thanks for the enlightenment!
30 Rich // 2010.04.25 at 4:19 pm

**I realize this comment doesn’t belong under the Food Court, but does fall under nutrition info that really should be made available as there is no safe level for trans fat consumption. **

I’m a dad concerned about what goes down the hatch of my kiddos. My kids got hooked on the Costco cookies (Oatmeal Raisin and Chocolate Chunk) when over at Grandma and Grandpas. Since nothing is spelled out on the container label, I spoke with someone in the bakery area of Costco today (4/25/10) and they pulled a binder that had the the nutrition facts for muffins and cookies.

The various muffins showed 0 g of trans fat but the cookies show 2 grams of trans fat for each cookie.

That’s the end of those cookies for this family.
31 Kimberly // 2010.04.26 at 1:18 am

Rich, I’ve got another post that covers nutritional information for at least some of the Costco Bakery items, such as the cakes. You might want to check that out too.
32 Karen // 2010.04.26 at 12:01 pm

I was a little shocked by the calorie counts as well. I thought the Turkey Wrap was a good way to go, but I guess not. However, if it is the mayo, then maybe it’s not so bad? In CA they serve it dry…very dry. My mom & I were joking about bringing along our own mayo. The last time we ordered it we asked for mayo on the side & they don’t even carry it at the food court.
33 Kelley // 2010.05.14 at 7:53 am

I did notice on another site with nutritional info. from Costco that one serving of pizza (700 calories) is 1/6 of the 18 in. pizza. Costco typically cuts their pizzas into 8 slices, or 16 if you have little kids. My guess would be that one serving of costco pizza is actually closer to two servings of regular pizza.
34 Emily // 2010.06.09 at 3:44 pm

I don’t see milk listed as an allergen with the fruit smoothie. Is there any way to find out if the smoothie is vegan?
35 Emily // 2010.06.09 at 3:52 pm

With some more research I found this ingredient list for the fruit smoothie.

Ingredients: water, marionberry puree, strawberry puree, sucrose, corn sweetner, banana puree, raspberry puree, boysenberry puree, orange juice concentrate, natural and artifical flavor, motified food starch, citric acid, FD&C red color #40, red color #3, blue #1, mono-and diglyerides, cellulose gum, and guar gum

Mono and diglycerides can be animal or plant derrived, so it depends on how hard core vegan someone is.
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37 Tom Nelson // 2010.07.26 at 2:02 pm

The nutritional information is definitly incorrect for the two items I was interested in learning about:
1. a slice of cheese pizza
2. turkey wrap

1. While the slices are certainly huge, I doubt that each single slice of cheese pizza has such a high number of calories (700) and protein (44 grams)
Two of their cheese pizza slices may have the calories and protein mentioned.
Perhaps the person who puit together this PDF for Costco meant to say a serving size was two slices?

2. Unless I am reading it wrong, it appears that the simple turkey wrap (whole wheat wrap, turkey, tomato, lettuce, mayo) has 800 calories!

Again, must be a big mistake.
There is no way such a small and simple item made up of mostly healthy veggies and lean protein (turkey) would have 800 calories.
The mayo they use isn’t really all that much, and the amount of mayo clearly doesn’t add enough calories to equal this absurd figure of 800 calories.

Can someone out there check these obviously incorrect figures?
Whoever put this PDF together for Costco should do some explaining about their astronomical figures.
I would bet that every single item has incorrect (vastly overblown) amounts of calories and protein listed (and probably fat, sugar, and sodium as well)

The numbers just don’t match up with the items.
They can’t be accurate.

Thanks.
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39 John // 2010.08.21 at 2:16 pm

Costco’s turkey wrap would probably be a sensible meal if they didn’t insist on slathering mayonnaise all over it. Where I live [Georgia] I have had varying success asking them to prepare them without the mayo. Sometimes they will, but usually they just tell me they’re pre-made and that’s the way they come. Seems to me the smarter approach would be to make hem plain and let those who want mayo add it themselves.
40 Kimberly // 2010.08.23 at 4:27 am

@John – I agree! I’m not a huge mayo fan and everybody always wants to really slather it on sandwiches. So, I am with you, they should put it on the side and let you add your own, if you want it. I think that is definitely a big part of the calories too because mayo is not really a low-fat, health food.
41 Justin // 2010.08.23 at 6:42 pm

I guess I am lucky because they give you the mayo on the side for the turkey wraps at my Costco. They are fantastic. I was going to get a wrap just the other day when I noticed they had a big sign for a carne asada bake. A new item at the food court, I had to try it. Oh man it was so good!! All the great flavors of a carne asada burrito, but in a bread. Kind of like a torta sandwich.
42 John // 2010.08.23 at 7:42 pm

Justin – Which Costco are you referring to? Costco is supposed to be a uniform operation, so if they can do that where you are then they should be able to do it for me here in north Georgia as well. Might be worth looking into.
43 Justin // 2010.08.25 at 9:18 am

Market St. Costco in Gilbert, AZ. Good luck.
44 Paul // 2010.09.01 at 4:45 am

The slices of pizza are huge…I can believe they have that many calories. What are, they, 1/6th of an entire pizza? 1/8th? Your numbers match up with a more recent nutritional data sheet from Costco that I found posted here.