In the first half of 2025, McDonalds announced the return of the snack wrap, which was removed from its menu in 2016. In the years (or months, in Popeyes’s case) before that announcement, a number of other fast food chains all added their own versions of the item to their menus. Burger King launched its own version of McDonalds Snack Wraps in 2023, for example.
While chains like Chick-fil-A and Subway offer chicken wraps, what makes a snack wrap distinct is that its not an entree. Rather, within each snack wraps small tortilla is a single chicken tender or tender-sized portion of chicken. Its typically accompanied by just a few other ingredients and often anchored by a sauce.
I visited my local Arbys, Sonic Drive-In, Jack in the Box, Popeyes, and Burger King locations in order to try every snack wrap in the fast food game. After analyzing my selection of 15 chicken snack wraps from those five chains, I landed on the following ranking of every fast food chicken snack wrap, from worst to best.
In the past few years, chicken wraps have become a popular item on the menus of many fast food chains and restaurants. Because they are small and can be used in many ways, they are great for making a quick and tasty meal on the go. But now that so many chains serve chicken wraps, how do you know which ones are the best? I tried wraps from a bunch of big chains and restaurants to find out who really does the best 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 is made with a flour tortilla, grilled chicken that has been marinated in herbs, cheddar cheese, crispy romaine lettuce, and a creamy sauce. It’s a solid grilled chicken wrap option for fast food. Some customers make it more decadent by adding fried chicken or other changes.
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 are made with flour tortillas, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and signature sauces. They have crispy chicken tenders inside. 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
The Arby’s Breaded Chicken Wrap comes in a flour tortilla and has cheddar cheese, lettuce, and your choice of ranch, barbecue, or honey mustard sauce. It also has crispy chicken tenders. As an alternative to Arby’s traditional roast beef sandwiches, they serve tasty chicken wraps.
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. Even though it sounds less exciting, the grilled chicken doesn’t dry out the wrap like the breaded chicken does, so it’s 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 from Arby’s is the best of the three snack wraps because the tasty BBQ sauce makes the other ingredients taste better. 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. Monday was the first time Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen sold its own chicken wraps. Since 2023, Burger King and Wendy’s have also sold them. Even the convenience store chain Wawa sells a chicken wrap.