Cheddars Soft Drinks: Price, Calories & Nutrition Guide

The Cheddars Soft Drinks are the simplest order on the drinks menu: one flat price, eight familiar fountain flavors, and a calorie count that runs from nothing at all to a full-sugar 160 depending on the pour. Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite and Barq’s Root Beer anchor the lineup, and three of the eight flavors come in at zero calories.

The price is $2.99 at the Arlington, Texas, Cheddar’s — the same $2.99 whichever flavor you choose — with calories from 0 to 160 per 12 fl. oz. pour in Cheddar’s official nutrition guide. One honest heads-up before the list: Diet Dr Pepper is currently unavailable at Arlington, so seven of the eight flavors are pouring. This guide covers the Soft Drinks price, every flavor and its calories, what to pair them with, and how to order them online.

What Comes With the Soft Drinks?

Order a Soft Drink and you pick one flavor from the fountain lineup — every flavor is the same $2.99, so the choice is purely about taste and calories. The eight flavors on the Arlington menu are:

• Coke
• Diet Coke
• Coke Zero
• Dr Pepper
• Diet Dr Pepper (currently unavailable at Arlington)
• Barq’s Root Beer
• Fanta Orange
• Sprite

Seven of the eight are pouring as normal. Diet Dr Pepper stays on the list but is marked currently unavailable at Arlington, so if that is your usual order, Diet Coke or Coke Zero are the zero-calorie stand-ins until it is back.

How Much Do the Soft Drinks Cost?

The Soft Drinks price is $2.99 at the Arlington, Texas, Cheddar’s, and it is a genuinely flat price: no flavor costs more than another, and there is no size ladder to climb. That puts a fountain drink level with the Fresh-Brewed Iced Teas and Hand-Crafted Lemonades at their $2.99 starting price — one of the lowest-priced ways to put a drink on the table.

Soft Drinks

Your choice of eight fountain flavors — Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Barq’s Root Beer and more — poured over ice.

8 Fountain Flavors · 0–160 Calories · One Flat Price

$2.99

Prices can differ between restaurants, and the final total may change if you add extra items to your order. Check the price shown by your local Cheddar’s before checkout, because prices and availability are set by each location.

Soft Drinks Nutrition and Calories

The Soft Drinks run from 0 to 160 calories in Cheddar’s official nutrition guide, and the spread is entirely about sugar: the five full-sugar flavors carry 140 to 160 calories each, while Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Diet Dr Pepper all land on zero. Two facts hold across the whole lineup — per the official guide, every flavor is listed at 0 grams of total fat and 0 milligrams of cholesterol, and every flavor’s protein is 0 grams too, so the table below is really a calories, sodium and sugar comparison. All eight rows are the guide’s 12 fl. oz. figures.

At the top of the table, Barq’s Root Beer and Fanta Orange tie as the biggest pours at 160 calories, while Sprite is the lightest full-sugar flavor at 140. Sodium stays modest in every glass — 40 to 70 milligrams — so the number that really separates one flavor from another is the sugar: 38 to 45 grams in a sugared pour, and none at all in the three zero-calorie options.

What to Pair With the Soft Drinks

A Bacon Cheeseburger is the classic fountain-drink pairing on the menu. A cold Coke or Dr Pepper next to a half-pound burger with bacon and cheddar is the combination most tables land on without thinking twice, and the $2.99 drink barely moves the total.

The Chicken Tender Platter pairs with a soft drink the same easy way. Crispy tenders and fries ask for something cold and fizzy beside them, and a Sprite or Fanta Orange keeps the order in comfort-food territory to the last tender.

A Gallon Iced Tea is the pairing for a table ordering drinks to go. Put a gallon of tea in the takeout order for the group and a $2.99 soft drink in each hand that wants its own flavor, and nobody compromises on what they are drinking.

The Zero-Calorie Three

Three of the eight flavors let you skip the calories entirely. Diet Coke and Coke Zero both come in at 0 calories with 0 grams of sugar, and Diet Dr Pepper matches them at 0 calories for anyone who wants the Dr Pepper taste without the regular pour’s 150 calories. All three still carry a little sodium — 40 milligrams for Diet Coke and Coke Zero, 60 for Diet Dr Pepper — but on calories and sugar they are a clean zero.

One catch at Arlington: Diet Dr Pepper is the flavor marked currently unavailable, so the zero-calorie choice here is between Diet Coke and Coke Zero until it returns. Either way, a zero pour is the easiest single swap on the drinks menu — it takes 140 to 160 calories off the meal without changing anything on the plate.

Nutrition and Allergen Considerations

On nutrition, the soft drinks split cleanly in two: five flavors with 140 to 160 calories and 38 to 45 grams of sugars, and three flavors with neither. Cheddar’s official allergen guide, however, does not cover these drinks at all — the published Allergen Guide prints no beverage rows, so there are no official allergen markers for any soft drink flavor, and this post will not claim the drinks are “allergen-free” on that basis. The chain’s standing caution still applies: Cheddar’s kitchens use shared preparation areas, and it cannot guarantee that any menu item is completely free of allergens. If a drink ingredient is a medical concern, ask your restaurant directly, since the published guide does not list beverages.

How to Order the Soft Drinks Online

To check availability and place a takeout order:

1. Visit the Cheddar’s online menu.
2. Select your restaurant.
3. Open Teas, Lemonades, Soft Drinks.
4. Choose Soft Drinks.
5. Confirm & Place Your Order.

Availability and pricing can vary by location. If you need to change or cancel a To Go order after placing it, Cheddar’s advises contacting the restaurant directly.

More Teas, Lemonades & Soft Drinks

Fresh-Brewed Iced Teas

From $2.99

Hand-Crafted Lemonades

From $2.99

Gallon Lemonade

From $5.79

Final Thoughts

The Cheddars Soft Drinks keep things simple: eight fountain flavors, one flat $2.99 price, and a calorie range from 0 to 160 depending on the pour. Barq’s Root Beer and Fanta Orange are the big glasses at 160 calories, Diet Coke and Coke Zero are the zero-calorie regulars, and Diet Dr Pepper — the third zero option — is the one flavor currently unavailable at Arlington. Confirm the current price with your selected restaurant before ordering.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1: How much do the Soft Drinks cost at Cheddars?

The Soft Drinks cost $2.99 at the Arlington, Texas, Cheddar’s — one flat price for every flavor. Prices can vary by location, so check the price shown by your local restaurant before ordering.

Q2: Which soft drink flavors does Cheddars serve?

The menu lists eight flavors: Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Dr Pepper, Diet Dr Pepper, Barq’s Root Beer, Fanta Orange and Sprite. Diet Dr Pepper is currently unavailable at Arlington; the other seven pour normally.

Q3: How many calories are in a Cheddars soft drink?

Cheddar’s official nutrition guide lists the flavors from 0 to 160 calories per 12 fl. oz. pour. Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Diet Dr Pepper are 0 calories; Coke and Sprite are 140; Dr Pepper is 150; Barq’s Root Beer and Fanta Orange are 160.

Q4: Which Cheddars soft drinks have no sugar?

The three zero-calorie flavors — Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Diet Dr Pepper — are listed at 0 grams of sugars in the official guide. The full-sugar flavors carry 38 to 45 grams of sugars each.

Q5: How do I order Soft Drinks from Cheddars?

Order online for takeout or in the restaurant: open the Teas, Lemonades, Soft Drinks section of the Cheddar’s menu, choose Soft Drinks, pick your flavor, and complete checkout.