Dave's Hot Chicken calorie calculator: build an order under your cap
Set a calorie cap from 200 to 1,500 and build a Dave's Hot Chicken order from 36 single orders — 32 entrées and 4 sides — using Dave's Hot Chicken's own published figures, rounded to whole calories and grams. The lightest meal-sized main is the Single Cauli Slider (Lite Mild or No Spice) at 490 calories; the heaviest entrée, the Dave's Hot Mozz (5 Pieces, Mild to Reaper), is 2,350. The most protein in a complete meal under 500 is 8 g.
Source: Dave's Hot Chicken nutrition guide (official), June 2026 edition (Dave's chart prints "Revised 3/16/26" on every page, but it was made in June 2026: its Hot Mozz rows are from June, and the rest are unchanged since March.) · Data refreshed
- 36 single orders
- 490 cal lightest main
- 8g protein in a meal under 500
- 200–1,500 cal cap range
As of October 2026, 36 Dave's Hot Chicken single orders can go into a built order, and the most protein in a complete Dave's Hot Chicken meal under 500 calories is 8 g (A Single Cauli Slider, lite mild or no spice, and a water).
Build your Dave's Hot Chicken order
Pick a cap, choose what matters, then add, swap or remove items; the total, the macros and the words to say at the counter update as you go, and the link in the address bar carries your order.
Three complete Dave's Hot Chicken meals under 500 calories
Starting points for the builder — One meal-sized entrée, up to two different sides and a drink — the MinMax app's meal and the best under the cap, drink included (water only where no published drink fits; the lightest meal takes a zero-calorie drink, or water).
Most protein
- Single Cauli Slider (Lite Mild or No Spice)490 cal · 8g
- Water0 cal
490 of 500 cal · 8 g protein
What to say at the counter: “A Single Cauli Slider, lite mild or no spice, and a water — 490 cal, 8 g protein.”
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- Single Cauli Slider (Lite Mild or No Spice)490 cal · 8g
- Water0 cal
490 of 500 cal · 8 g protein
What to say at the counter: “A Single Cauli Slider, lite mild or no spice, and a water — 490 cal, 8 g protein.”
Get it at the nearest Dave's Hot Chicken →Lightest
- Single Cauli Slider (Lite Mild or No Spice)490 cal · 8g
- Water0 cal
490 of 500 cal · 8 g protein
What to say at the counter: “A Single Cauli Slider, lite mild or no spice, and a water — 490 cal, 8 g protein.”
Get it at the nearest Dave's Hot Chicken →The 20 lightest meal-sized mains at Dave's Hot Chicken
Meal-sized entrées and breakfast mains (at least 150 calories or 10 g protein), lightest first — the mains the builder builds on at a tight cap; sides and drinks are added in the builder. Every Dave's Hot Chicken item is in the full table on the Dave's Hot Chicken calories page and in /data/daves-hot-chicken.json (each row carries its role and id).
| Item | Calories | Protein |
|---|---|---|
| Single Cauli Slider (Lite Mild or No Spice) | 490 | 8g |
| Single Cauli Slider (Mild to Reaper) | 520 | 8g |
| Single Slider (Lite Mild or No Spice) | 620 | 31g |
| Dave's Bites (10 Pieces, Lite Mild or No Spice) | 650 | 41g |
| Dave's Hot Mozz Slider (Lite Mild or No Spice) | 650 | 11g |
| Dave's Hot Mozz Slider (Mild to Reaper) | 650 | 11g |
| Single Slider (Mild to Reaper) | 680 | 31g |
| Dave's Bites (10 Pieces, Mild to Reaper) | 750 | 41g |
| Cauli Dave's #4 (1 Cauli Slider with Fries, Lite Mild or No Spice) | 920 | 14g |
| Cauli Dave's #4 (1 Cauli Slider with Fries, Mild to Reaper) | 960 | 14g |
| Cauli Dave's #1 (2 Cauli Tenders with Fries, Lite Mild or No Spice) | 970 | 10g |
| Cauli Dave's #1 (2 Cauli Tenders with Fries, Mild to Reaper) | 1,040 | 10g |
| Dave's #4 (1 Slider with Fries, Lite Mild or No Spice) | 1,060 | 37g |
| Dave's Bites with Fries (10 Pieces, Lite Mild or No Spice) | 1,090 | 47g |
| Cauli Dave's #3 (1 Cauli Tender & 1 Cauli Slider with Fries, Lite Mild or No Spice) | 1,100 | 16g |
| Dave's #4 (1 Slider with Fries, Mild to Reaper) | 1,110 | 37g |
| Cauli Dave's #3 (1 Cauli Tender & 1 Cauli Slider with Fries, Mild to Reaper) | 1,180 | 16g |
| Dave's Bites with Fries (10 Pieces, Mild to Reaper) | 1,190 | 48g |
| Dave's Hot Mozz Slider with Fries (Lite Mild or No Spice) | 1,190 | 14g |
| Dave's Hot Mozz Slider with Fries (Mild to Reaper) | 1,200 | 14g |
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MinMax finds the best Dave's Hot Chicken meal under your calorie goal — at the location nearest you — and lets you swap items to hit your protein. Free on iPhone.
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