Popeyes Brought the $6 Big Box Back on August 31 — Its Second Run in Three Months

Popeyes' own description of this run is one sentence: the $6 Big Box features "Popeyes signature hand-battered chicken, two homestyle sides and the brand's iconic biscuit."

When Nation's Restaurant News covered the June 2026 run it gave the more specific version that the chain had put on the deal then — a choice of two pieces of signature chicken or three tenders, two regular sides and a buttermilk biscuit. Popeyes has not restated that choice-of-chicken detail in the August announcement, so whether the tenders option carries over to this run is not confirmed by the company.

The $6 Big Box is not a new offer and it is not really a limited-time one either, on the evidence of its own history. Nation's Restaurant News traces it to 2014, when it launched as the $5 Bonafide Big Box, and lists returns in 2022, 2024 and 2025 before the June 2026 run. This August relaunch is the second of 2026 alone.

That pattern is the useful thing to know. A reader asking "is the $6 Big Box still available" is asking about a deal that has been withdrawn and reinstated at least five times since 2022, and the answer at any moment is a matter of which run the calendar is in rather than whether the product exists.

The August announcement gives no last day, no number of weeks and no "while supplies last" wording for the Big Box. Neither did the trade coverage on the day.

That matters more than it would for a new product, because no publicly announced last day is on record for the earlier runs either. Anyone planning around this deal is planning around a date Popeyes has not published. This page carries no end date because none exists on the record, and it is scheduled for re-checking so the date can be added if the company states one.

The business reason is on the record rather than inferred. Nation's Restaurant News reported that Popeyes has posted six consecutive quarters of same-store sales declines, including a 5.2% fall in the second quarter of 2026, and that CEO Josh Kobza has framed the response as consistent, easy-to-understand value. Alongside the Big Box, Popeyes has run a $5 Faves menu and a $20 Family Meal this year.

The chain has also said the older approach did not work. Covering the June run, Nation's Restaurant News quoted Popeyes president Peter Perdue saying that a lot of the limited-time offers "attracted new guests that didn't come back" and that this came at the expense of core guests. A recurring $6 box is the opposite bet: the same cheap thing, repeatedly, rather than a novelty each month.