Cheesecake Factory vs Texas Roadhouse: Steak Prices, Calories and Value (2026)

Steak for steak: the price ladder

Start with the ladder, because it is the whole story in one table. Texas Roadhouse's Ft. Worth Ribeye is $25.49 for 12 oz in Dallas and Oklahoma City and $27.99 in Phoenix, $27.99 to $30.99 for 14 oz, and $30.49 to $33.99 for 16 oz. Cheesecake Factory's Grilled Rib-Eye Steak is $43.95 to $47.95, with no size choice on the menu. The filet gap is wider still: Texas Roadhouse's Dallas Filet is $24.99 to $25.99 for 6 oz and $28.99 to $29.99 for 8 oz, while Cheesecake Factory's Filet Mignon is $49.95 to $51.95. Sirloin is the only cut where the two come close to the same shelf: Texas Roadhouse's Hand-Cut Sirloin is $14.99 to $16.99 for 6 oz, $17.49 to $19.99 for 8 oz, $21.49 to $23.99 for 11 oz, and $25.99 to $28.99 for 16 oz, and Cheesecake Factory has no sirloin on the menu at all. On calories the ladder runs the same direction: the 12 oz ribeye is 960 calories at Texas Roadhouse against 1,360 for Cheesecake Factory's rib-eye, and the 6 oz filet is 270 against 840, but read the next section before taking those numbers at face value, because the two chains do not count the same plate.

The table is the November 12, 2026 check on the official Texas Roadhouse menu, three cities, with calories from the official Texas Roadhouse nutrition menu.

* Texas Roadhouse calories are for the meat alone, without sides; Cheesecake Factory calories are as served. See the calories section below.

What $15 buys at each place

Fifteen dollars is the honest test of a steakhouse, because it is the price of the cheapest real meal. At Texas Roadhouse it buys a 6 oz Hand-Cut Sirloin at $14.99 in Dallas and Oklahoma City and $16.99 in Phoenix, with two sides included, at 250 calories for the meat. At Cheesecake Factory it buys Buffalo Chicken Strips at $15.50 to $15.95, at 1,090 calories, and the menu says the order serves 2 to 4, so it is an appetizer doing the work of an entree. Chicken is the closer fight: Texas Roadhouse's Chicken Critters are $15.49 to $16.49 at 480 calories without sauce, and its Grilled BBQ Chicken is the same $15.49 to $16.49 at 300 calories. Cheesecake Factory's chicken entrees start higher and run heavier, and there is no $15 chicken entree with two sides on its menu. Ribs split the difference: Texas Roadhouse's Fall-Off-The-Bone Ribs are $19.99 to $20.49 for a half slab at 900 calories and $25.99 to $26.49 for a full slab at 1,450, and Cheesecake Factory has no ribs to put next to them. If the budget is $15 and the order has to be a meal, Texas Roadhouse is the only one of the two that sells one. The full price list behind that claim is in the Cheesecake Factory menu with every price.

Sides and rolls: what is built into the price

A Texas Roadhouse steak price buys more than steak. Every entree comes with two sides, so the $25.49 ribeye is a ribeye plus two sides, and the baked potato on the side is $3.49 on its own at 380 calories plain. Cheesecake Factory's steak prices buy the plate as the menu describes it, with mashed potatoes at 450 calories among the sides, and there is no baked potato on its menu. The rolls are the part everyone repeats and nobody should print without checking: Texas Roadhouse says its rolls are baked fresh every five minutes and served with honey cinnamon butter, and no official page describes them as free or unlimited, so this guide does not call them that either. A roll is 200 calories. What is certain is that the bread is part of the meal at Texas Roadhouse and an extra at Cheesecake Factory, where bread is not the draw. The practical difference is a few dollars of sides and bread that Texas Roadhouse folds into the steak price and Cheesecake Factory does not.

Calories, with one warning about the numbers

The calorie numbers in this post need one warning before anyone uses them. Texas Roadhouse lists its steak calories without sides: a 6 oz Dallas Filet is 270 calories for the meat alone, an 8 oz sirloin is 340, a 12 oz ribeye is 960. Cheesecake Factory lists its steak calories as served: Filet Mignon is 840, Grilled Rib-Eye Steak is 1,360. Add two sides to the Texas Roadhouse filet, a baked potato at 380 and green beans at 100, and the 270 becomes 750, which is much closer to Cheesecake Factory's 840 than the headline numbers suggest. The same warning runs the other way on chicken: Texas Roadhouse's Chicken Critters are 480 calories without sauce, and the sauces run 80 to 320 calories per two ounces, so a ranch dip nearly doubles the order. Cheesecake Factory's Buffalo Chicken Strips are 1,090 calories as served for an order that serves 2 to 4. Compare the meat alone and Texas Roadhouse looks far lighter. Compare the plate as eaten and the gap is a side dish, not a different diet.

Dessert: $8.99 against $12.50

Dessert is the one course where Texas Roadhouse beats Cheesecake Factory on price, which is not the result anyone expects from a cheesecake restaurant. Texas Roadhouse's Strawberry Cheesecake is $8.99 in all three cities at 800 calories, and its Big Ol' Brownie is $8.99 at 1,200 calories. A Fresh Strawberry Cheesecake slice at Cheesecake Factory is $12.50 to $13.95 and 1,000 calories. The Texas Roadhouse slice is cheaper by about $3.50 and lighter by 200 calories, and its brownie is cheaper than any Cheesecake Factory dessert of the same weight: the Godiva Chocolate Brownie Sundae is 1,750 calories and serves 2 to 4, with no verified slice price to put next to the $8.99 brownie. Cheesecake Factory's answer is the same as against Olive Garden, the bench: more than 30 cheesecake flavors against two desserts, and a Steak Diane dinner that ends with a cheesecake menu instead of a cheesecake. If dessert is a single slice after steak, Texas Roadhouse's is the better buy. If dessert is the reason for the visit, Cheesecake Factory still owns the course.

Deals, hours and the wait

Neither chain wins the deals round outright, because they discount different things. Texas Roadhouse runs almost no traditional coupons: no current national deal with an end date was found on its official site, offers go through its VIP Club email list, and its Early Dine special is named on location pages with no days, times or prices published officially. There is no happy hour page on the official Texas Roadhouse site at all. Cheesecake Factory discounts in the open: Happy Hour at Cheesecake Factory runs Monday to Friday, 4 to 6 PM, bar only, with 24 food items from $9.95, its Dessert Month redemption runs to November 22, and its $15 Bonus eCard holiday offer runs November 12 to December 31 online, as listed on the the $15 Bonus eCard holiday offer page. Locations cut the other way: Texas Roadhouse has 760 restaurants system-wide and 693 in the US, against Cheesecake Factory's 218 restaurants in the US and 35 more abroad, so the steakhouse is closer for most Americans. The wait is the last difference worth naming: both chains draw a crowd at dinner, and Texas Roadhouse's smaller menu and steakhouse pace turn tables faster than Cheesecake Factory's 250-plus-item kitchen, though neither chain publishes a wait time to compare.

Cheesecake Factory vs Texas Roadhouse: who should go where

Start with the steak, because that is why anyone picks between these two. Order the ribeye or the filet at Texas Roadhouse and the same cut costs $18 to $26 less, with two sides built into the price, and the Chicken Madeira comparison on the Cheesecake Factory side shows the same pattern in reverse, a chicken entree that costs more than the steakhouse's chicken and feeds fewer people per dollar. Then look at the rest of the table: Cheesecake Factory wins when the order is not steak, because its menu covers the pasta, the salads and the desserts that Texas Roadhouse does not sell, and its Happy Hour gives the after-work table something Texas Roadhouse has no version of. So the pick is the steak itself: order it at Texas Roadhouse, and order everything else at Cheesecake Factory. And the last surprise is dessert: the steakhouse sells the cheaper slice, $8.99 against $12.50, so even the course Cheesecake Factory owns costs less across the street.