Full Sam's Club Cafe menu prices for 2026. The headline deal is the $1.38 all-beef hot dog + drink combo — actually 12 cents cheaper than Costco's famous $1.50 dog. Whole 16-inch pizza is $8.98, a pizza slice $1.98, soft pretzels and frozen yogurt $1.00, ICEE and fountain drinks $0.89, sundaes $1.58, and churros around $1. The cafe is intentionally cheap, centrally priced across ~600 U.S. Sam's Club warehouses, and — unlike Costco — usually open to non-members. Below: the full priced menu, the cheapest items, what's popular, calories + prices, and a head-to-head price comparison vs. the Costco Food Court.
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The four things people most often Google about the Sam's Club food court — answered up top with current prices.
20 oz ICEE or 30 oz fountain drink. The cheapest thing on the menu.
1/4 lb all-beef hot dog + drink. 12 cents cheaper than Costco's combo.
Cheese or pepperoni; feeds 3-4 people. Undercuts Costco's $9.95 pie.
Vanilla soft serve + mixed-berry compote. Cafe favorite.
Costco gets the headlines for its $1.50 hot dog, but Sam's Club quietly sells the same quarter-pound all-beef dog + drink combo for $1.38 — twelve cents less. It's the cheapest hot-dog-and-drink combo of any major U.S. warehouse club.
The combo: One quarter-pound, all-beef hot dog on a bun plus a fountain drink, for $1.38 total. The cheddar cheese pork hot dog combo is the same price. Both are designed to pull warehouse-club shoppers toward the cafe as a loyalty perk.
How it compares: Costco's combo is $1.50 and has the longer price-lock history (unchanged since 1985). Sam's Club's $1.38 is set centrally by Walmart's warehouse-club division and has held in the $1.38-$1.50 range for years. The 12-cent gap is small, but on a like-for-like basis Sam's Club holds the cheaper price.
Why it stays cheap: Like Costco, Sam's Club runs the cafe as a near-zero-margin loyalty driver rather than a profit center. Walmart's scale on beef, buns and fountain syrup lets the club hold the combo well under $2 while charging a small non-member surcharge at some locations to cover the difference.
Access advantage: Unlike most Costco food courts, the Sam's Club Cafe is frequently positioned near the entrance and open to non-members (sometimes with a ~10% upcharge). That makes the $1.38 dog one of the most accessible cheap meals in U.S. retail.
The short version: usually no. The Sam's Club Cafe is more open to non-members than Costco's food court — though a small surcharge sometimes applies.
Many Sam's Club Cafes sit near the entrance or exit, outside the membership check, so anyone can order. This is the main difference from Costco, whose food courts are usually inside the warehouse past the card scan.
Some Sam's Club locations apply a roughly 10% surcharge to non-member cafe orders to mirror the membership-pricing model. Even with the upcharge, the $1.38 hot dog stays comfortably under $2.
If you have a Sam's Club Club ($50/yr) or Plus ($110/yr) membership, you simply order at the cafe counter — no surcharge. Plus members also get cash-back rewards that can offset cafe spending.
Policy varies by location and is not formally advertised. Confirm with your local Sam's Club; the cafe menu sign at the counter is authoritative on current pricing.
A short menu makes for a tight cheap list — and Sam's Club's cheap list is extraordinary by any standard. Almost the entire menu is under $2.
The hot dog combo and pizza lead on volume; the ICEE and sundaes round out the top tier. Ranked by widely-reported popularity.
The cafe menu is deliberately stable, but Sam's Club does rotate seasonal treats and occasionally adjusts the lineup. Here's what's changed recently.
The all-beef hot dog + drink combo holds at $1.38 in 2026 — still 12 cents under Costco's $1.50. No change planned.
$1.38Cookie-dough brownie joined the rotating dessert lineup; seasonal sweets like holiday cookie crunch sundaes cycle in through the year.
$1.22The cheese-and-pepperoni-stuffed pizza pretzel remains a cafe favorite at $1.98 — a Sam's Club twist on the standard soft pretzel.
$1.98ICEE continues at $0.89 in blue raspberry, cherry and Pepsi flavors. Flavor rotation is the cafe's main seasonal lever on drinks.
$0.89Slice + fountain drink bundled at $2.50 — the cheapest hot-meal combo after the hot dog. Steady in 2026.
$2.50Brownie sundae joins the 4-berry as a $1.58 dessert option; soft-serve base shared with the frozen yogurt line.
$1.58All five Sam's Club Cafe menu categories with item counts.
Sam's Club doesn't publish exhaustive cafe nutrition data on every item, but warehouse signage and member-reported figures give a useful estimate. Approximate values below.
| Item | Calories | Price |
|---|---|---|
| All-Beef Hot Dog (no drink) | ~570 | Part of combo |
| Hot Dog Combo (with drink) | ~750 | $1.38 |
| Pizza Slice — Cheese | ~700 | $1.98 |
| Pizza Slice — Pepperoni | ~720 | $1.98 |
| Whole 16" Pizza (per slice) | ~650-720 | $8.98 |
| Pizza Pretzel | ~520 | $1.98 |
| Soft Pretzel | ~380 | $1.00 |
| Churro | ~210 | $1.00 |
| Frozen Yogurt (cup) | ~280 | $1.00 |
| 4-Berry Sundae | ~340 | $1.58 |
| ICEE (20 oz) | ~130 | $0.89 |
Calories approximate, drawn from warehouse signage and member-reported data. Hot dog combo calorie count includes the bun and fountain drink. Confirm with your local Sam's Club for current figures.
Like-for-like price check vs. Costco's food court and BJ's Wholesale cafe — the three U.S. warehouse-club food courts (May 2026 national averages).
| Item | Sam's Club Cafe | Costco Food Court | BJ's Wholesale Cafe | Typical Mall Food Court |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot dog + drink combo | $1.38 | $1.50 | $1.49 | $5.99 |
| Single pizza slice | $1.98 | $1.99 | $2.99 | $4.99 |
| Whole large pizza | $8.98 (16") | $9.95 (18") | $11.99 | $15-22 |
| Pretzel | $1.00 | (not on menu) | $2.49 | $3.99 |
| Churro / dessert item | $1.00 | $1.99 | $2.49 | $5.49 |
| Soft serve / froyo | $1.00 | $1.99 | $2.49 | $4.99 |
| ICEE / slushie | $0.89 | (not on menu) | $1.99 | $3.99 |
| Membership required? | Usually no | Usually yes | Usually yes | No |
Sam's Club Cafe (Walmart's warehouse club) edges Costco on the hot dog combo ($1.38 vs. $1.50), the whole-pizza price, and the ICEE — and is usually more open to non-members. Costco counters with a stronger signature lineup (the $4.99 Chicken Bake and Twisted Churro) and a physically larger 18-inch pizza. BJ's Cafe (East Coast) prices higher across the board. Mall food courts charge 3-4x more for equivalent items.
The cafe runs on a small set of intentionally cheap items — a few of which have quietly become bargain-shopper icons.
Quarter-pound all-beef hot dog on a bun plus a fountain drink. At $1.38 it undercuts Costco's $1.50 combo by twelve cents — the cheapest hot-dog-and-drink combo of any major U.S. warehouse club.
A full 16-inch pizza in cheese or pepperoni for $8.98 — one of the cheapest large pizzas in U.S. food retail, slightly undercutting Costco's $9.95 18-inch on price. Made fresh in-warehouse.
Blue raspberry, cherry or Pepsi-flavored frozen ICEE for 89 cents — tied with the fountain drink as the single cheapest thing on the menu. A checkout-line classic.
A soft pretzel stuffed with pizza-style cheese and pepperoni filling. A distinctly Sam's Club item that the Costco food court doesn't offer — part snack, part mini-pizza.
Vanilla soft serve topped with a mixed four-berry compote. The cafe's most-ordered dessert and a consistent best-of-the-food-court pick among members.
Warm soft pretzel in salt or cinnamon-sugar for a dollar. Sits alongside the $1 frozen yogurt and $0.89 ICEE in the cafe's sub-$1 snack tier — items Costco's court doesn't even carry.
Even with a short menu, the Sam's Club Cafe has a solid set of vegetarian items: cheese pizza slice ($1.98), whole cheese pizza ($8.98), soft pretzels ($1.00), churro ($1.00), all frozen yogurt and sundaes ($1.00-$1.58), the cookie dough brownie ($1.22), and the ICEE and fountain drinks. The cheese pizza plus a dessert makes a complete vegetarian meal for under $4.
The hot dogs are meat, and the pizza pretzel contains pepperoni. Vegan options are limited — the soft serve and sundaes contain dairy. A cheese-less pizza order, a plain pretzel, or the bottled drinks and ICEE are the safer vegan-ish picks.
There are no certified gluten-free items — the pizza, pretzel, churro and hot dog bun all contain wheat. The hot dog itself is GF but the bun is not.
The Sam's Club Cafe is the in-warehouse food court found inside Sam's Club locations — the warehouse-club division of Walmart, with roughly 600 clubs across the United States. Where Costco's food court is usually tucked inside the warehouse past the membership check, the Sam's Club Cafe is frequently positioned near the entrance and open to non-members, sometimes with a small surcharge.
The cafe's identity is the $1.38 all-beef hot dog + drink combo — the same quarter-pound spec as Costco's famous dog, but twelve cents cheaper. The other anchor items are the $1.98 pizza slice, the $8.98 whole 16-inch pizza, the $1.00 soft pretzel and frozen yogurt, the $0.89 ICEE and fountain drink, and the $1.58 sundae. Pricing is set centrally by Walmart's warehouse-club division, so it's unusually consistent warehouse-to-warehouse.
The menu is intentionally short — about 18 items including flavors and variants — and intentionally cheap, with almost everything under $2. Sam's Club Cafe is operated in-house, not franchised; Sam's Club is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, alongside parent Walmart.
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Quick answers on the $1.38 hot dog, membership access, pizza pricing, desserts and how it compares to Costco.
The Sam's Club Cafe hot dog combo is $1.38 in 2026 — a quarter-pound all-beef hot dog plus a fountain drink. That price actually undercuts the famous Costco $1.50 hot dog combo by 12 cents, making it the cheapest hot-dog-and-drink combo of any major U.S. warehouse club. The cheddar cheese pork hot dog combo is the same $1.38. Sam's Club prices the cafe centrally, so the combo costs the same across U.S. warehouses, though a small non-member upcharge applies at some locations.
No — in most cases you do not need a membership to eat at the Sam's Club Cafe. Many Sam's Club food courts are positioned near the entrance or exit so non-members can order without a card. Some locations apply a roughly 10% non-member surcharge at the register, and a handful require you to be past the membership check. This is more open than Costco, whose food courts are usually inside the warehouse. Confirm with your local Sam's Club; if you're already a Plus ($110/yr) or Club ($50/yr) member you simply order at the counter.
A whole 16-inch pizza is $8.98 at the Sam's Club Cafe — available in cheese or pepperoni at the same price. That works out to roughly $1.12–$1.50 per slice and is one of the cheapest large pizzas in U.S. food retail, slightly undercutting Costco's $9.95 whole 18-inch pizza on price (though Costco's pie is larger). A single slice is $1.98, or $2.50 as a combo with a fountain drink.
A 20 oz ICEE is $0.89 at the Sam's Club Cafe — available in blue raspberry, cherry and Pepsi flavors. At 89 cents it's tied with the 30 oz fountain drink as the single cheapest item on the entire menu. The ICEE and the $1.38 hot dog combo are the two items the cafe is best known for among bargain shoppers.
Yes — slightly. The Sam's Club Cafe hot dog combo is $1.38, which is 12 cents cheaper than Costco's $1.50 combo. Both include a quarter-pound all-beef hot dog and a drink with free refills. The difference is tiny, but Sam's Club technically holds the cheaper price. Costco's combo has the longer price-lock history (unchanged since 1985), while Sam's Club's cafe pricing is set centrally by Walmart's warehouse-club division and has held in the $1.38–$1.50 range for years.
The Sam's Club Cafe dessert lineup includes frozen yogurt ($1.00) in vanilla, chocolate or twist; sundaes ($1.58) in 4-berry or brownie; the churro (around $1.00); a cookie dough brownie ($1.22); and rotating seasonal treats. Almost every dessert is under $2, keeping with the cafe's intentionally cheap pricing. The 4-berry sundae and the soft-serve frozen yogurt are the most-ordered sweet items.
A standard soft pretzel is $1.00 at the Sam's Club Cafe, available salted or cinnamon-sugar. A pizza pretzel — a soft pretzel stuffed with cheese and pepperoni filling — is $1.98. The $1 pretzel is one of the cheapest snack items on the menu, sitting right alongside the $1 frozen yogurt and $0.89 ICEE.
Most Sam's Club Cafes are open during warehouse hours, typically 10 AM to 7 PM for dine-in or takeout, though hours follow the local club and can run later on weekends. Because the cafe is often near the entrance, it may stay open slightly past the last warehouse entry at some locations. Confirm exact hours with your local Sam's Club via the store locator on samsclub.com.
Yes — several. Vegetarian items include the cheese pizza slice ($1.98) and whole cheese pizza ($8.98), soft pretzels ($1.00), the churro ($1.00), all frozen yogurt and sundaes ($1.00–$1.58), the cookie dough brownie ($1.22), and the ICEE and fountain drinks. The hot dogs are meat, and the pizza pretzel contains pepperoni, but the cafe is easy to navigate as a vegetarian thanks to the cheese pizza and dessert lineup. There are no certified gluten-free items.
They're close warehouse-club rivals. Sam's Club wins on the hot dog combo ($1.38 vs. $1.50), the whole pizza price ($8.98 for a 16-inch vs. Costco's $9.95 for an 18-inch), and the ICEE ($0.89). Costco wins on signature variety — its $4.99 Chicken Bake and Twisted Churro have a stronger cult following, and its 18-inch pizza is physically larger. Sam's Club is also generally more open to non-members. For pure price-per-item, Sam's Club Cafe is marginally the cheaper of the two.
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