Chicken wraps have become a popular menu item across fast food chains and restaurants in recent years. Their portability and versatility make them an ideal choice for a quick, tasty meal on the go. But with so many chains now offering chicken wraps, how do you know which ones are the best? I tried wraps from numerous major chains and restaurants to find out who really delivers when it comes to chicken wraps.
Fast Food Chains with Noteworthy Chicken Wraps
Many fast food chains now feature chicken wraps on their menus Here are some of the top picks
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A’s Cool Wrap contains sliced grilled chicken, Monterey Jack and cheddar cheese, lettuce, and is served in a flaxseed flour flatbread. The chicken is juicy and flavorful, and the wrap itself is on the lighter side at 660 calories. It’s tasty on its own, but Chick-fil-A’s selection of dressings like avocado lime ranch add even more flavor.
Wendy’s
Wendy’s Grilled Chicken Wrap features herb-marinated grilled chicken, cheddar cheese, crispy romaine lettuce, and a creamy sauce in a flour tortilla. It’s a solid grilled chicken wrap option for fast food. Some customers add fried chicken or other customizations to make it more indulgent.
McDonald’s
The returning McDonald’s Snack Wraps, available in spicy and ranch flavors, offer a nostalgic blast from the past for 2000s kids. Crispy or grilled chicken, cheese lettuce and the signature sauce make these wraps simple yet tasty. At snack size, they work perfectly for, well, a snack.
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen’s Flamethrower Spicy Chicken Wrap mimics the McDonald’s Snack Wrap with its crispy chicken strip, cheddar, lettuce, and spicy sauce. It’s essentially a reincarnation of the discontinued McDonald’s favorite, and a good option for fans of spicy crispy chicken wraps.
Sonic Drive-In
Sonic’s new Cheesy Baja Crispy Tender Wraps and Honey Chipotle Crispy Tender Wraps feature crispy chicken tenders, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and signature sauces wrapped up in flour tortillas. They’re solid snacks, packing lots of flavor into snack-sized portions.
Jack in the Box
Jack in the Box has offered its chicken wraps for a while. Choices like the Classic Crispy Chicken Wrap with lettuce, cheese, sauce, and a crispy chicken strip deliver straightforward flavor in a bite-sized wrap.
Arby’s
Arby’s Breaded Chicken Wraps contain crispy chicken tenders, cheddar, lettuce, and your choice of ranch, barbecue, or honey mustard sauce in a flour tortilla. They provide a tasty chicken wrap alternative to Arby’s classic roast beef sandwiches.
Sit-Down Restaurant Chains with Delectable Wraps
In addition to fast food chains, some sit-down restaurant chains also offer appetizing chicken wraps worth trying:
The Cheesecake Factory
The Cheesecake Factory is known for its massive food portions, but its Asian Chicken Lettuce Taco Wraps are refreshingly light. Crisp butter lettuce leaves hold chicken, rice noodles, shredded veggies, and a tasty cashew sauce. The lettuce shell is a clever low-carb swap for a traditional tortilla.
Red Robin
Red Robin’s Whiskey River BBQ Chicken Wrap impresses with its slices of chicken, cheddar, lettuce, tortilla strips, and smoky whiskey BBQ sauce. The flavor profile matches one of Red Robin’s signature burgers, bringing that indulgent taste to wrap form. It’s a filling wrap with 890 calories and 42g protein.
Subway
Subway allows for complete customization in their wraps. A top pick is the steak and cheese wrap with shaved steak, peppers, onion, cheese, and your choice of veggies and sauces layered on a wheat wrap. You really can’t go wrong crafting your perfect sub or wrap at Subway.
Starbucks
For a lighter breakfast option, Starbucks’ Spinach, Feta, and Egg White Wrap offers a vegetarian choice with cage-free eggs, spinach, sun-dried tomato pesto, and feta cheese in a whole wheat wrap. It tastes great with your morning Starbucks coffee.
Who Really Has the Best Overall Chicken Wraps?
While many major chains offer tasty chicken wraps these days, a few clearly stand out from the pack in terms of flavor, ingredients, and overall execution:
For fast food, the return of the McDonald’s Snack Wraps earns major nostalgia points while also delivering on simplicity and flavor. Chick-fil-A also shines with its Cool Wrap that features high-quality, juicy grilled chicken and lighter ingredients.
Among sit-down chains, The Cheesecake Factory and Red Robin go beyond basic wraps, incorporating creative, crave-worthy flavors like Asian cashew sauce and whiskey BBQ that make their wraps truly unique and indulgent.
The abundance of chicken wraps across so many restaurants is a win for people seeking quick, portable meals with protein and flavor. But for the very best chicken wraps out there, look to the big chains that have found ways to make their wraps truly stand out from the competition. A wrap with juicy chicken, high-quality ingredients, and unique flavors is difficult to beat.
So next time you’re craving a handheld chicken meal, consider stopping by McDonald’s and Chick-fil-A for fast food wraps, or The Cheesecake Factory and Red Robin for full-size restaurant wraps. Their wraps deliver when it comes to taste, quality of ingredients, creativity, and nostalgia, making them the best destinations for chicken wraps.
1 Jack in the Box Classic Grilled Jack Wrap
Whereas Jack in the Boxs crispy wraps revolve around a breaded chicken strip, each Grilled Jack Wrap contains a few pieces of un-breaded chicken, similar to what might top a chicken Caesar salad. While less exciting in theory, the fact that those grilled chicken pieces dont dry out the wrap like their breaded counterpart makes for a better item.
Other than the difference in chicken, the ingredients in the Classic Grilled Jack Wrap are identical to the Classic Crispy Jack Wrap, with lettuce, cheese, pickles, and sauce. Unfortunately, despite a bit more moisture, I had no idea there were two sauces on my wrap. All I got was a subtly bright flavor for lack of a better description — none of the dill or garlic flavor found in bolder ranches, nor whatever the Good Good sauce is supposed to add. Plus, the Jack in the Box tortilla was still too bready, making for an overall subpar experience.
Arby’s BBQ Chicken Wrap
At its worst, a Chicken Wrap at Arbys isnt necessarily bad but simply uninteresting. The BBQ Chicken Wrap is the best of the three snack wraps from Arbys thanks to the tasty BBQ sauce uplifting the rest of its otherwise boring ingredients. Instead of failing to do anything compelling on their own, those ingredients become a delivery system for that super solid sauce.
Arbys BBQ sauce hits all the notes a good barbecue sauce should — its a tad sweet, plenty tangy, and accented by a rich smokiness. Because nothing else in the wrap contributes a strong flavor, good or bad, the wrap is wholly dedicated to that sweet, tangy, smokiness. This is also the only BBQ-flavored wrap at a major fast food chain. Because of its standout flavor and inherent uniqueness, the Arbys BBQ Chicken Wrap is one of the better widely available snack wraps options.
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FAQ
Does McDonald’s have chicken wraps now?
Yes, McDonald’s is bringing back its Snack Wraps in the US, starting July 10th.
Who sells chicken snack wraps?
Snack Wraps will also help McDonald’s compete with a growing number of rivals. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen introduced its own chicken wraps on Monday, while Burger King and Wendy’s have sold them since 2023. Even the convenience store chain Wawa sells a chicken wrap.