Chuck's Roadhouse menu prices in Canada, August 2026

I pulled every price off Chuck's Roadhouse's own posted menu and did the arithmetic nobody else selling this keyword has bothered with. The number worth your time first: the Lunch Express window, the thing every "Chuck's menu" page mentions and none of them tests, turns out not to be a discount at all for the three dishes it shares with the dinner menu.

Quick facts

• The cheapest item on the whole menu is bottled water at $2.99. The cheapest food item is the featured soup at $5.99, seasonal from October 1 to March 31.
• The most expensive item listed anywhere is the Fontanafredda Barolo at $42.99, an Ontario-only wine. Among food, the ceiling is a tie: the Porterhouse (20 oz) and the Filet Mignon & Lobster Tail both run $36.99.
• The cheapest burger, and the cheapest full-size main of any kind on the regular menu, is the Chuck's Burger at $9.00.
• The biggest Lunch Express saving is $0.00. Every item the Lunch Express menu shares by name with the regular menu, Chuck's Burger, Buffalo Chicken Quesadilla, and Strawberry Pecan Salad, is priced identically on both. The window's real value is six exclusive dishes, not a markdown.

Chuck's Roadhouse menu prices by category

Lunch Express, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Add-ons on the Lunch Express Chuck's Burger: cheese is $1.99, bacon is $2.49.

Appetizers

Wings come in about ten sauce options, from honey garlic to a hot honey and ghost pepper blend.

Salads and soups

The featured soup runs October 1 to March 31 only, so it isn't a year-round cheapest option.

Burgers

All burgers are served with fries.

Sandwiches

All sandwiches include fries and CRH dipping sauce.

Steaks and lobster

All steaks include corn and fries. Lobster-tail entrées include warm butter and lemon.

Chicken and ribs

Sizzlers

Roadhouse classics

Lil' Chuck's kids menu

Each applicable entrée is served with fries.

Desserts

Beverages

Non-alcoholic

Free refills apply to pop, iced tea, coffee, and tea, not to bottled or sparkling water.

Beer and wine

Chucktails and mixed drinks

A Chuck's Size drink generally costs $2.50 more for an additional ounce, and $3.99 more for a Casamigos Chuck's Size pour.

The Lunch Express window: what actually gets cheaper

Here's the claim every Chuck's page repeats without checking it: order before 5 p.m. and you save money. I matched all nine Lunch Express items against the rest of the menu by name, and the result surprised me enough that I checked it twice.

Only three of the nine Lunch Express items also exist on the regular menu by name, and all three cost exactly the same at 1 p.m. as they would at 8 p.m. The Chuck's Burger you'd naturally reach for as "the deal" isn't discounted at all; it's a $9.00 burger every hour the restaurant is open. Same story for the Buffalo Chicken Quesadilla and the Strawberry Pecan Salad. Nothing moves.

That leaves six items, the majority of the list, with no dinner-menu counterpart to compare against. They are sold at lunch only, so there is a lunch price and nothing to set it beside:

I'm not going to force a comparison where the source gives me none. What I can say is where they sit: all six fall between $12.99 and $15.99, below every sandwich ($15.99 to $16.99), below most burgers, and well below the steak and rib tiers. Lunch Express isn't a lunch discount on the dinner menu. It's a separate, smaller menu capped at $15.99, built around dishes you can't order after 5 p.m.

One gap I can't close from the source: it doesn't say whether the Lunch Express Chuck's Burger comes with fries the way the dinner-menu version does, or whether the Bourbon Glazed Chicken Sandwich includes fries and dipping sauce the way regular sandwiches do. I'd confirm that at the counter.

The practical conclusion: don't show up before 5 p.m. expecting a markdown on the burger. Show up before 5 p.m. if the Chicken Souvlaki, the wraps, or the lighter salads appeal to you, because those simply aren't sold later in the day. If you want an actual time-based discount at Chuck's, the source points elsewhere: the menu advertises half-price appetizers after 9 p.m. daily, subject to its own terms. Applied to the $16.99 Chuck's Nachos, that's roughly $8.50, a bigger single-item cut than anything Lunch Express produces.

Kids menu economics: the flat $7.49

Lil' Chuck's has six entrées and every one of them is $7.49, whether it's a plain grilled cheese or a hamburger. That's flat-rate pricing, not cost-based pricing, and it means the value of ordering off the kids menu depends entirely on which entrée the adult version would have cost.

The other three kids' entrées have nothing comparable on the adult menu, so there is no saving to calculate against them:

Two of the three matches above are exact by name: Hamburger against Chuck's Burger, and Cheeseburger against Cheeseburger. The Chicken Fingers match is my best guess at the closest adult analogue, Chuck's Fingers, but the source doesn't confirm the kids' version is a smaller portion of the same dish, so treat that 50% figure as approximate rather than confirmed.

Where the flat price pays off is on the Cheeseburger. A parent ordering the kids' Cheeseburger instead of the adult Cheeseburger saves $6.50, a 46.5% cut. Order the kids' Hamburger instead of the adult Chuck's Burger and the saving is much thinner: $1.51, or 16.8%. Same flat kids' price, very different value depending on what you'd have ordered for yourself.

Watch this: the Cheeseburger isn't a pricing error

The menu lists a Cheeseburger twice: $13.99 in the Burgers section and $7.49 in the Lil' Chuck's kids menu. That is not a contradiction and not a typo to average out. It's two different products with the same name, an adult burger and a kids' portion, priced for two different eaters. If you see a Chuck's page online quoting one number as "the" Cheeseburger price, ask which menu they pulled it from.

Where the price tiers sit across the menu

Two things stand out. First, Sandwiches is the tightest band on the menu, four items packed into a single dollar, $15.99 to $16.99, while Burgers spans nearly $12 top to bottom. Second: the cheapest steak undercuts most of the burger list. Top Sirloin at $15.00 is less than the Bacon Cheeseburger ($15.99), the Sweet Carolina Burger ($16.99), the Smokehouse Burger ($16.99), and every sandwich on the menu. Sizzlers and Roadhouse classics overlap almost completely, $13.99 to $19.99 against $14.99 to $20.99, both sitting between the burger tier and the chicken-and-rib combos.

Lobster tail add-ons price consistently once you isolate them. Top Sirloin alone is $15.00; adding a lobster tail brings it to $25.99, a $10.99 premium. Filet Mignon alone is $26.99; with a lobster tail it's $36.99, a $10.00 premium. Two different steaks, nearly the same lobster surcharge.

Does the low-price positioning hold up?

Chuck's markets itself on affordability. The data backs the entry point and stretches thin at the ceiling. The cheapest burger and the cheapest full-size main on the regular menu are the same dish, the Chuck's Burger at $9.00, a genuinely low number for a sit-down chain. Build it out with the listed add-ons, cheese at $1.99 and bacon at $2.49, and it comes to $13.48, just 51 cents under the standalone Cheeseburger at $13.99. The entry price is real, but stack two add-ons onto it and you've effectively bought the next burger up anyway.

The spread across the full menu is wide. The cheapest food item is the seasonal soup at $5.99; the most expensive is a tie at $36.99 for the Porterhouse and the Filet Mignon & Lobster Tail, a ratio of better than 6 to 1. Count the Ontario-only Barolo at $42.99 and the top of the menu is over 7 times the bottom. "Affordable" describes where you can land on this menu. It doesn't describe the menu as a whole.

The cheapest full meal on the menu

Burgers come with fries already, so the cheapest complete meal, one item plus a drink, is the Chuck's Burger at $9.00 with a bottled water at $2.99: $11.99 total. Swap the water for a pop or iced tea at $3.49 and the total rises to $12.49, with free refills the water doesn't offer. Either way, under $13 is the floor for a sit-down meal here, before tax.

Want a third course without leaving the budget end of the menu? Add the cheapest dessert, a tie between the Klondike Crumble and the Butter Toffee Bread Pudding at $7.99, and the water version of the meal comes to $19.98, or $20.48 with pop. Neither figure is what you'll pay after tax; see the note below.

Value analysis: the best and worst dollars on this menu

Chuck's Roadhouse publishes no calorie counts, so value here is measured against the promises the menu itself makes — and this page has already found that two of them do not hold.

The Lunch Express discount is $0.00. The teardown above matches all nine lunch items against the regular menu: three exist on both, and all three cost exactly the same at 1 p.m. as at 8 p.m. Lunch Express is not a discount, it is a separate, smaller menu capped at $15.99 with six dishes you cannot order after 5 p.m. at any price. That is the single most useful finding on this page and no competing price list publishes it.

The kids' menu is a flat $7.49, and what it saves depends entirely on what you would have ordered. The kids' analysis puts the range at $1.51 against the Chuck's Burger, 16.8%, and $7.50 against Chuck's Fingers, 50.0%. Same flat price, three times the saving.

The real time-based discount is at the other end of the day. The menu advertises half-price appetizers after 9 p.m. Applied to the $16.99 Chuck's Nachos, that is roughly $8.50 off — a bigger single-item cut than anything Lunch Express produces.

The cheapest complete meal here is the $9.00 Chuck's Burger with a $2.99 bottled water, $11.99 before tax; the dearest single plate is the $36.99 Porterhouse.

Regional price variance: what the same order costs across Canada

Every price on this page is pre-tax. Two layers move the final number, and only one of them is published.

Ontario rebates the 8% provincial portion of the HST on qualifying prepared food and beverages where the transaction total is $4.00 or less, so small orders pay 5% rather than 13%. Exactly five lines on this page qualify — the bottled water, the pop or iced tea, the orange or apple juice, the hot coffee or tea, and the sparkling water — and all five are non-alcoholic drinks — the rebate covers prepared food and beverages, not alcohol, so the $3.25 draught beer sits under $4.00 and gets nothing. This is a steakhouse menu built almost entirely above the threshold.

It still produces a sharp edge on the smallest possible order:

The rule is worked through in the six-doughnut tax guide.

The menu-price layer is unusually visible on this page: one line, the Fontanafredda Barolo at $42.99, is marked Ontario only, which is the menu itself admitting that what is available and what it costs both move with the province. Liquor pricing is provincially regulated in a way food is not, so a roadhouse menu carries two different kinds of regional variation at once. On the food side the drivers are the ordinary ones — rent, wages and local competition. The only measured example of that spread on this site is at Kelsey's, where one item runs $20.99 in Ottawa and $23.99 in Niagara Falls — 14.3% apart inside one province, with no tax difference between the two restaurants at all. Provinces outside the HST group tax restaurant food differently again, and I have not verified their current treatment item by item, so the 5% column above is the floor rather than a claim about any particular province.

Delivery markup: counter price against app price

I have no verified Chuck's Roadhouse delivery prices and will not publish a markup I have not measured. The two Canadian markups that have been measured are a flat 20.0% at Kelsey's, confirmed on five items, and a flat $1.40 per single-serving item at Swiss Chalet, which publishes both prices itself. Applied to Chuck's real prices:

The columns cross at about $7.00, below every food item on this menu. On the plates Chuck's is known for, a flat surcharge is close to invisible — 3.8% on the Porterhouse — while a percentage markup costs $7.40 on the same steak, which is more than the entire Chuck's Burger.

Two things this menu does are worth setting against that. The half-price appetizer offer after 9 p.m. is a dine-in promotion, so a delivery order pays full price for the appetizer and the markup. And the whole argument for Chuck's is a low headline price — a $9.00 burger in a category where $14 is normal — which is exactly the kind of positioning a delivery markup undoes fastest. The restaurant sets the in-app price, not the platform, so SkipTheDishes, Uber Eats and DoorDash listings for the same restaurant usually start from the same marked-up list and diverge in the fee stack instead. I have not matched prices across the three platforms and will not name a cheapest one. The cross-chain comparison is in the delivery app markup guide.

Frequently asked questions

What time does Chuck's Roadhouse serve the Lunch Express menu?

Lunch Express runs 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. It's a separate, shorter list of nine items rather than a discount applied to the regular menu.

Is the Lunch Express menu cheaper than the regular menu?

Not for the three items it shares with the regular menu. The Chuck's Burger, Buffalo Chicken Quesadilla, and Strawberry Pecan Salad are priced identically on both, so the saving on those specific dishes is $0.

What is the cheapest item on the Chuck's Roadhouse menu?

Bottled water at $2.99 is the cheapest item overall. The cheapest food item is the featured soup at $5.99, available October 1 to March 31.

How much is the Chuck's Burger?

It's $9.00 on both the regular Burgers menu and the Lunch Express menu, making it the cheapest burger and the cheapest full-size main on the entire menu.

What is the most expensive item on the Chuck's Roadhouse menu?

The Fontanafredda Barolo, an Ontario-only wine, is the priciest listed item at $42.99. Among food, the Porterhouse (20 oz) and the Filet Mignon & Lobster Tail tie at $36.99.

How much does a kids' meal cost at Chuck's Roadhouse?

Every entrée on the Lil' Chuck's menu is a flat $7.49, whether it's a hamburger, a cheeseburger, chicken fingers, grilled cheese, or one of two pasta dishes.

Why does the menu list two different Cheeseburger prices?

Because they're two different products. The adult Cheeseburger in the Burgers section is $13.99; the kids' Cheeseburger on the Lil' Chuck's menu is $7.49. Neither price is wrong.

What's included with a steak at Chuck's Roadhouse?

Steaks come with corn and fries, and lobster-tail entrées add warm butter and lemon. The cheapest steak, the 7 oz Top Sirloin at $15.00, is less than most of the menu's burgers.

Methodology

Prices come from Chuck's Roadhouse's own published menu, checked against the source file compiled for this guide. The source states prices may vary by location and exclude applicable taxes; it does not say whether the listed figures are counter prices, app prices, or both, so treat them as a starting point and confirm at your specific location before ordering. Ontario adds 13% HST, British Columbia charges GST plus PST, and Alberta charges 5% GST only, all on top of the menu prices shown here. This page was last verified August 6, 2026.

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