Chicken Caesar Wrap Cost Calculator
Grilled chicken, romaine, parmesan, and Caesar dressing in a flour tortilla. Lunch counter food cost. Prefilled with US average ingredient costs. Edit any quantity or price to match what you actually pay, and the math updates as you type.
How much does it cost to make Chicken Caesar Wrap?
About $2.70 of ingredients per wrap at foodservice prices, 24.5% of an $11 menu price. Four ounces of grilled chicken cost $1.52, 56.3% of the total. Bought precooked, the chicken lets a counter without a grill roll wraps ahead for the grab-and-go cooler.
Where the money goes
| Grilled chicken breast | 56.3% · $1.52 | |
|---|---|---|
| Flour tortilla (12-inch) | 17.0% · $0.46 | |
| Parmesan cheese | 11.1% · $0.30 | |
| Romaine lettuce | 8.9% · $0.24 | |
| Caesar dressing | 6.7% · $0.18 |
What 40 of them return at different prices
| Your price | Food cost % | Over ingredients, each | Over ingredients, 40 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $8.25 | 32.7% | $5.55 | $222.00 |
| $11.00 US average | 24.5% | $8.30 | $332.00 |
| $13.75 | 19.6% | $11.05 | $442.00 |
Ingredients only. Labor, packaging, fuel, and stall or platform fees come out of these figures.
The chicken is the wrap. Four ounces of grilled chicken breast at 38 cents an ounce cost $1.52, 56.3% of the total. Everything else is small: a 12-inch flour tortilla is 46 cents, half an ounce of parmesan 30 cents, 3 oz of romaine 24 cents, and 2 tbsp of Caesar dressing 18 cents. That totals $2.70, a 24.5% food cost at an $11 menu price, below the 28-32% most restaurants aim for. The chicken Caesar salad on this site has the same four ounces of chicken, twice the romaine and parmesan, and runs 19.6% at $16. The wrap includes the chicken but sells for $11, the price of a Caesar without chicken, so its percentage is higher.
What the wrap can do that the salad cannot is wait. Precooked chicken strips, thawed in the walk-in, go in cold, so a counter with no grill can roll a morning batch and sell it from the cooler through lunch. Two things limit that. The dressing soaks into the tortilla within hours, so shops lay a romaine leaf between the dressing and the tortilla, or pack the dressing in a cup on the side. And whatever is left at closing is the cost of making ahead: roll 40, sell 36, and the four left over raise the cost of each wrap sold from $2.70 to $3.00, a 27.3% food cost. Under the FDA Food Code a cold ready-to-eat item kept past 24 hours needs a date mark and can be held up to seven days at 41°F, but a day-old wrap has a soggy tortilla, so the practical answer is a second, smaller batch before lunch rather than one big batch at opening.
Thirty-eight cents an ounce sits close to what a WebstaurantStore Plus member pays for fully cooked grilled breast strips. Tyson Red Label strips, two 5 lb bags to the case, were $78.49 a case in October 2026 (49 cents an ounce), or $58.77 with Plus (37 cents). At 49 cents the wrap costs $3.14, a 28.5% food cost. Portioning matters too: strips grabbed by hand from the bag are never quite four ounces, and each extra ounce adds 38 cents, about 3.5 percentage points. The tortilla is priced at the 12-inch size a wrap needs: Celia's 12-inch flour tortillas were $32.99 for 72 at WebstaurantStore, 46 cents each.