Texas Roadhouse Plans Another Price Hike. Here’s What Ohioans Should Expect
Steak night at Texas Roadhouse is becoming more of a treat than a weekly routine for many Ohioans.
The chain says it plans to raise menu prices again, so the check on your next visit may be higher.
Here’s what the company said, and what it could mean for your favorite Roadhouse meal.
Note: This is general information, not financial advice. Company plans and menu prices are subject to change.
The Planned Hike
Texas Roadhouse plans to raise menu prices 1% at the start of the fourth quarter.
That comes from a Restaurant Business report, which Nation’s Restaurant News published on Aug. 7.
With that hike, the chain’s pricing would total 2.9% in the fourth quarter and again in the first quarter of 2027.
The report doesn’t say what the 2.9% is measured against. So don’t read it as a menu increase over one year.
Those are the plans as of the company’s Aug. 6 earnings report. A later quarterly report could change them.
The company’s 2026 outlook counts menu price moves as part of the sales growth it expects.
Texas Roadhouse lists 40 restaurants in Ohio as of Dec. 30, 2025. That count covers Texas Roadhouse, Bubba’s 33 and Jaggers.
Nationwide, the chain has 648 company-owned Texas Roadhouse restaurants.
The filing says prices are reviewed one local market at a time.
Your check may differ.
The Earlier 1.9% Hike
In February, Texas Roadhouse said it would take a 1.9% menu price increase at the start of the second quarter.
The chain tied that hike to high beef prices.
More than half of the chain’s ingredient basket is beef.
With pricing already in place, the menu was set to be up 3.6% in the second and third quarters.
Management said that’s lower than casual-dining peers.
In February, it said it was too early to tell whether beef pressure would last into 2027.
How to Read These Percentages
Nation’s Restaurant News doesn’t say whether February’s 3.6% menu figure includes the 1.9% hike. So adding the two together would be a guess.
Here’s the dollar math on a $20 entrée. It’s an example, not a menu price.
If 2.9% applied to a $20 entrée, that would be 58 cents. The 1% hike alone would be 20 cents.
Or think of a $100 dinner check. 2.9% would be about $2.90, and the 1% hike alone would be $1.
Beef and Ingredient Costs
Texas Roadhouse said the cost of the ingredients it buys rose 7.0% in the second quarter.
This is known as commodity inflation.
It now expects about 5% for all of 2026. That’s a cut from its earlier forecast of 6% to 7%.
In plain words, ingredients still cost the chain more than a year ago, but the jump is getting smaller.
Beef still hurts its profits, though less than before.
Beef at your grocery store costs more too.
Beef and veal ran 5.9% higher in August 2026 than a year earlier.
That’s the U.S. city average from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
They did slip 0.6% from July to August.
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Labor Costs
Texas Roadhouse said wage and other labor costs rose 3.9% in the second quarter.
It expects 3% to 4% for all of 2026.
Labor costs touch every dish on the menu, not just the steaks.
Sales Growth
Sales at comparable restaurants rose 6.2% in the second quarter. Traffic, meaning how many people came in, grew 3%.
The company's release says higher sales only partly covered the cost increases. Restaurant margin is what's left of sales after the restaurant's own costs.
It slipped to 16.4% from 17.1% a year earlier.
Put another way, out of every $100 in sales, about $16.40 was left, down from about $17.10.
The chain has historically been careful about price hikes, Nation's Restaurant News reported.
Management said the 2.9% balances covering rising costs with keeping its everyday value.
Restaurant Prices Nationwide
Texas Roadhouse's 2.9% sits below the 3.5% rise BLS measured for full-service meals and snacks from August 2025 to August 2026.
But Texas Roadhouse's figure covers one chain over two quarters. So the gap between the two isn't a discount.
Weighing a night out against cooking at home?
Food away from home rose 3.4% from August 2025 to August 2026.
Grocery prices rose 2.2%.
So $100 of restaurant food from a year ago costs about $103.40 now.
$100 of groceries costs about $102.20.
In February, Nation's Restaurant News cited full-service meal prices up 4.7% over the year through January.
So that national pace slowed by 1.2 percentage points between January and August.
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