Cheese Only QuesadillaVegetarian

What Chipotle says it is

Chipotle’s own quesadilla page says: “We start with a warm flour tortilla, your choice of Adobo Chicken, Steak, Beef Barbacoa, Carnitas, Plant-Based Sofritas, or Fajita Veggies, then layered with Real Monterey Jack Cheese and folded before being pressed until golden and crisp.” “Every Chipotle Quesadilla comes with your choice of three sides.” It is a digital order: “The Quesadilla is a digital-only menu item at Chipotle, meaning you can order it exclusively through the Chipotle app or website for pickup or delivery.” The ordering menu tags the cheese quesadilla “Includes Guacamole”, and the build on this page marks guacamole included rather than priced for it.

On the cheese, Chipotle’s ingredients page says of cheese cultures: “Cheese cultures are strains of bacteria (the good kind) that are isolated by culture makers (yup, there are such people) so they can keep making the best cheeses. When added to milk, cheese cultures consume the lactose (or milk sugar) and turn it into lactic acid, which helps the vegetable rennet (proteins with coagulating properties) turn the milk into a solid block of cheese. In simpler terms, magic. Magic makes cheese happen.” The statement for the cheese names five ingredients: Cheese Cultures, Monterey Jack Cheese, Milk, Vegetable Rennet and Salt.

On 25 September 2026 the Cheese Only Quesadilla was listed at 367 of the 368 restaurants read, in 48 states and DC. That makes it a core item, on 367 of the 368 open menus read. Five of those menus marked it unavailable on the read day: a quesadilla is made on the digital line, and the menu marks it off where that line is off.

Why the listing and the build differ

The ordering menu lists the Cheese Only Quesadilla at zero calories. The zero is the brand’s own figure for an option with no protein of its own: the parts chosen on the line carry every calorie, so the listing has nothing to count until they are chosen. This site prints the zero as what it is and sums the parts instead.

Five parts make the classic build, 865 calories in all: Monterey Jack Cheese (in a quesadilla, 3 oz) (330 calories), Flour Tortilla (burrito) (320 calories), Fresh Tomato Salsa (25 calories), Sour Cream (110 calories) and Roasted Chili-Corn Salsa (80 calories). The other reference builds: light at 695 calories and loaded at 1,330 calories.

Protein runs 31 g across the classic build, 3.6 g per 100 calories, and sodium 2,080 mg, 90 percent of the 2,300 mg the FDA uses as the daily value. Press any part in the build above and the bars redraw from that part’s own record.

What the price buys

$9.00 to $12.65 for pickup across 367 restaurants, with a median of $10.35, read on 25 September 2026. The same menus carry Chipotle’s own delivery price: $13.45 at the median, 30 percent above pickup, before the service fees the checkout adds. Among the seven quesadillas on the board it is the cheapest at the median, level with Chicken Quesadilla and Sofritas Quesadilla; the dearest is the Steak Quesadilla at $12.35.

The cheapest state median on the read date was Kansas at $9.72, the dearest New York at $11.70. A state median stands on eight restaurants at most, so one dear or cheap restaurant moves it; the national range is the safer figure. Pick a state at the top of the page and every price on this site prints that state’s median.

The priced add-ons on a quesadilla: Queso Blanco $2.95 at the median ($2.85 to $3.20, 367 restaurants) and Cilantro Lime Sauce $1.50 at the median ($1.50 to $1.50, 367 restaurants). Guacamole is included on this order at no charge, by the brand’s own menu; queso blanco is still priced.

The figures against a day

The classic build is 43 percent of a 2,000 calorie day and 90 percent of the sodium daily value. Carbohydrate runs 75 g with 7 g of fiber (25 percent of the 28 g daily value); fat 43.5 g, of which 22.5 g saturated.

Allergens and diets on this order

Chipotle’s allergens and special diets chart has a row for Monterey Jack Cheese: it contains dairy; the row marks it vegetarian and keto. The classic build on this page contains dairy, wheat and gluten and sulphites, by the rows for its parts; it is vegetarian but not vegan (Monterey Jack Cheese (in a quesadilla, 3 oz) rules vegan out).

On the tortilla the brand is plain: “If you avoid gluten, don’t eat our flour tortillas. If you are highly sensitive to gluten and would like us to change our gloves, just let us know at the start of your order.” Every row on the chart carries the same two cautions: “Individual foods may come into contact with one another during preparation, which is not reflected on this chart.” “Although we do not use eggs, mustard, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, shellfish, or fish as ingredients in our food, Chipotle cannot guarantee the complete absence of these allergens in its restaurants.”

Where else the protein turns up

For a child, the Cheese Only Kid’s Quesadilla is $4.60 at the median.

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