Iced Latte (16 oz) Cost Calculator
Iced espresso drink with milk, no flavoring. Coffee shop drink food cost; typical retail $4.50-6. 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 Iced Latte (16 oz)?
About 88 cents at 2026 US prices for a 16 oz iced latte with whole milk, 16.8% of a $5.25 menu price. The double shot is 50 cents of it, eight ounces of milk 24 cents, the cup, lid, and straw 12 cents, and the ice 2 cents. With oat milk the same drink costs $1.92, more than double.
Where the money goes
| Espresso shots (2) | 56.8% · $0.50 | |
|---|---|---|
| Whole milk | 27.3% · $0.24 | |
| Cup + lid + straw | 13.6% · $0.12 | |
| Ice | 2.3% · $0.02 |
What 80 of them return at different prices
| Your price | Food cost % | Over recipe cost, each | Over recipe cost, 80 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $3.94 | 22.3% | $3.06 | $244.80 |
| $5.25 US average | 16.8% | $4.37 | $349.60 |
| $6.56 | 13.4% | $5.68 | $454.40 |
Ingredients and packaging (the Cup + lid + straw line). Labor, fuel, and stall or platform fees come out of these figures.
The espresso is the biggest line, 56.8% of the cost, and the one that varies least from cup to cup. A double shot is about 18 grams of beans. At $12.85 a pound (the median wholesale price for their most-purchased coffee in a Fresh Cup survey of 40-plus US roasters, published October 2026), that is about 50 cents. Each extra $1 a pound on the beans adds 4 cents a drink, under one point of food cost; even the top of the survey range, $17.99 a pound, puts the latte at $1.09, or 20.8%. About half of the roasters who answered plan to raise prices in 2027: reason enough to recost, not to rethink the menu.
The milk is the line the customer chooses. Whole milk at 3 cents an ounce, a little under the $4.11-a-gallon US retail average for September 2026, puts eight ounces at 24 cents. Barista oat milk runs about 16 cents an ounce ($4.99 for a 32 oz carton at retail, $65 for a case of twelve; club packs are cheaper), so the same drink costs $1.92, more than double, and 36.6% of a $5.25 price. Starbucks stopped charging for non-dairy milk in the US in November 2024. Matching the dairy latte's dollar margin takes a $1.04 upcharge on the oat latte; any upcharge below that, including none, earns less on every oat drink.
Iced is the cheaper latte to make. A hot 16 oz latte takes about 12 ounces of steamed milk; in the iced cup, ice fills four of those ounces, so the hot one carries 12 cents more of whole milk and 64 cents more of oat milk. Many cafés still charge the same for iced or more. "Light ice" is the request that eats into that gap: three more ounces of milk make the dairy latte 97 cents, 18.5%, and the oat latte $2.40, 45.7%.