Pintos n Cheese

Pintos n Cheese at Taco Bell. 170 calories, $2.99.

Taco Bell lists this item as available meatless.

170calories
$2.99price
57calories per dollar

How it compares on the Taco Bell menu

At 170 calories it is lighter than 89% of the 103 Taco Bell items we track, against a menu median of 350.

What a Pintos N Cheese costs across America

Priced at 415 Taco Bell restaurants in 49 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $2.39 and $3.19, a spread of 33%.

$2.89median price
$2.39–$3.19middle 80%
415restaurants priced
49states
12 restaurants at $1.99–$2.080 restaurants at $2.08–$2.188 restaurants at $2.18–$2.2712 restaurants at $2.27–$2.3610 restaurants at $2.36–$2.4520 restaurants at $2.45–$2.5527 restaurants at $2.55–$2.6458 restaurants at $2.64–$2.7357 restaurants at $2.73–$2.8355 restaurants at $2.83–$2.9279 restaurants at $2.92–$3.012 restaurants at $3.01–$3.1047 restaurants at $3.10–$3.2028 restaurants at $3.20 and above$1.99$3.20+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last bar gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest of the chart.

$1.69cheapest sampled — New Bern, NC
$5.49most expensive sampled — Universal City, CA

The cheapest Pintos N Cheese in the sample is $1.69 in New Bern, NC, and the most expensive is $5.49 in Universal City, CA — 225% more. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 39 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 31 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
MS$1.993cheapest
WI$2.297cheapest
NJ$2.397cheapest
NE$2.493cheapest
IA$3.193most expensive
CO$3.199most expensive
MI$3.1917most expensive
CT$2.994most expensive

Calorie and price data come from Taco Bell's own ordering system. USDA does not publish a full nutrient panel for this item.