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Restaurant Calorie Calculators

By Alec Zakhary Updated

TL;DR

Three build-your-own bowl calculators — Chipotle, CAVA, and Sweetgreen. Pick your base, protein, and toppings; see the official calories and macros from each chain's own nutrition data, plus a realistic portion-variance range most calculators hide. The Chipotle range is built from a published 75-bowl portion audit, not a guess.

Pick a chain

Each calculator is built from that chain's own published nutrition data. The realistic range is the differentiator — a single "official" number assumes every scoop is the exact standardized serving, which real portions rarely are.

How these calculators work

Every official calorie and macro number comes straight from the chain's published nutrition data Brand. We do not re-estimate the baseline.

The realistic range is sourced differently depending on what data exists:

  • Chipotle uses a per-ingredient variance model User built from a published 75-bowl portion audit and 200 aggregated customer reports, so rice and protein scoops swing more than salsas. See the underlying research.
  • CAVA and Sweetgreen have no published portion study, so they apply a documented fast-casual portion band Est. (−15% to +20%) on top of the official numbers. We don't invent chain-specific variance figures where the data doesn't exist.

Read the full approach on the methodology page. These numbers are for reference, not medical or dietary advice.