The Best Frozen Drinks You'll Find At Fast Food Restaurants

No matter how much ice you pack in the cup, sometimes the fast-food fountain drink isn't cold enough to cut it. That's where frozen drinks come in handy. Unlike more familiar milkshakes, these super sweet slushies give soft drink fans a frosty alternative for lowering the temperature of their thirst. Sure, you're used to grabbing Icees and Slurpees at corner convenience stores. But that doesn't work when you're in line at McDonald's picking up your QPC combo meal. You need a fast-food version of a fluffy slush to go with your quick-bagged feast.

Luckily for you, several popular fast-food outlets provide frozen drinks just for this purpose. And there's a tasty selection waiting to be enjoyed, many of which are iced-up versions of your favorite soft drinks. If you're thinking something more than soda is in order, but you're not sure which pours will provide peak refreshment, take a look at our choices for the best frozen drinks at fast food restaurants, and prepare for sippable satisfaction. Whatever the weather, if your taste tends toward the cold end of the thermometer, there's a flurry of fun frozen drinks on tap waiting to put your thirst on ice.

Chick-fil-A's famous lemonade gets an arctic upgrade to become a frosted revelation. Frosted Lemonade crystalizes the restaurant's old-fashioned recipe into a frozen drink lemon lovers can sip with a straw or scoop with a spoon. There's more than just lemonade in the mix, however; a creamy curl of Chick-fil-A's vanilla Icedream makes things extra-smooth while bringing in cool complexity. Savor it slowly enough, and you can have your vanilla-fied frozen lemonade and drink it, too, as it melts into its original form once again. Frosty the Snowman might be taken aback by the prospect of something frozen going for a total thaw, but you'll be in full-blown frozen drink heaven.

Considering lemonade is one of Chick-fil-A's most popular orders, it's no surprise the chicken chain capitalized on the frenzy with a frosted version. Anyone with a taste for this tartly sweet swig served icy-cold will see the reason in trying an iteration that's been through the freezer and back again, only to become a more potent version of its former self. The drink was so well-received when released in 2015 that the company added a seasonal Frosted Strawberry Lemonade to the menu as a follow-up in 2017.

Take your taste for iced coffee drinks one step further with Dunkin' Frozen Coffee. The donut hut gives it's jumping java a dose of cold reality, turning the high-voltage beverage into a caffeinated frozen drink. Imagine your mornings beginning on an icy high note with this cool, frosty roast in your cup. Sure, it's more difficult to dunk a donut in. But with so much crisp satisfaction waiting at the bottom of the straw, who needs a donut anyway?

Frozen Coffee became a part of the Dunkin' drink menu in 2017 as a response to customers requesting a frozen drink that captures the magic of Dunkin' coffee. This undoubtedly gave Dunkin' a chance to compete with other coffee chains like Starbucks and Dutch Bros., outlets where frozen coffee beverages feature prominently in their basic offerings. But when you're making a quick run for something to start your morning or afternoon on a cold note and standing in line at the other spots is too much to ask, Dunkin' will help you keep your cool.

Get your green tea goodness in a more exciting format with Dunkin' Frozen Matcha. This slush is a non-coffee drink that uses liquid cane sugar to achieve a more natural sweetness, and diners can customize it with their choice of whole or skim milk. The result is an arctic take on a healthful tea that usually comes warm or iced, providing an enticing cold formulation beverage for tea drinkers and matcha lovers to savor. Beware the sugar in this one; there's a whopping 54 grams in a small and a staggering 109 grams in a large, which can turn up the heat on your health plans. Sip cautiously!

If you can't get enough of this lightly sweet drink, you can learn to make a copycat version at home. Of course, this won't serve you when heading to the office, and you need something that adds an extra vibe to your day without frying your nerves. Isn't it nice to know you can summon Siri to lead you to the nearest Dunkin' for a frosty cup of morning magic without missing your exit?

Fanta fanatics have a custom-made selection in the frozen drink section of McDonald's with Frozen Blue Raspberry Fanta. The vibrant fruit soda transforms into a slurpable snowball, perfect for bringing a tingle to your tongue. With all the vivid flavors Fanta offers, blue raspberry is our pick for an icy beverage tailor-made to bring you a taste of winter all year long.

Anyone wondering how Fanta fits into the frozen drink family at McDonald's will be pleased to know that the soda is owned by the Coca-Cola company and is the second-oldest brand produced by the soft drink giant. It's a shivering sibling to Frozen Coke and makes a fruitier fit for drink lovers who favor a more syrupy flavor in their cup. TikTokers seem to be dazzled by the cool taste, and though the Frozen Fanta line does include other flavors, blue raspberry is undoubtedly the most eye-catching and tastebud tempting in the line-up. Fans of Icees can get chilly with a cup while enjoying their McNuggets and fries for a combo meal that won't freeze them out.

It's easy to think of a Blue Coconut Slush from Sonic as just another variant of the restaurant's Ocean Water beverage. But where Ocean Water includes a fruity, fizzy splash of Sprite, this frosty refresher is a pure pour of blue coconut flavored syrup added to frothed ice. What you get is more like a sky-colored coconut snow cone that's likely to get you into a summery groove, even if you sip it out of season.

Looking for something more powerful to swig while downing your burgers and tots? Sonic will let you add a splash of mix-ins to your cup, in flavors that include blood orange, vanilla, and sweet cream. Try a few to make your frozen coconut beverage into an alcohol-free cocktail. There are also sugar-free syrups, fresh fruit, and even candy that can take the basic blend into some super-sweet territory. With a drink so boldly blue, the sky's the limit.

MTN Dew's Baja Blast flavor was such a popular pour, Taco Bell chose to put it on blast — a wintry blast, that is — and turn it into a frozen drink with a fervid fan base. MTN Dew Baja Blast Freeze made the hot summer weather a lot more bearable and even inspired a second version the Baja Blast Colada Freeze. The tropical lime essence of the original is refreshing enough as a slush on its own. Adding a touch of pina colada to a blend that already satisfies eager drinkers only gives fans of frosted beverages more pour to adore.

Baja Blast is such a fan favorite, Taco Bell has taken the next step in turning it into a frozen sensation. Baja Blast Gelato has been introduced in limited form in Southern California. While this takes frozen drinks into a whole different realm of enjoyment, there seems to be no denial from Taco Bell that the icy love for this MTN Dew variant has made a cool splash with diners.

Taking a lighter touch with its Wild Strawberry Creme Delight Freeze, Taco Bell adds a whirl of vanilla creamer to an icy strawberry slush. The result is a dreamsicle-like flavor that's the both the cream of the crop and the pick of the patch. This twisted mister appeared on the Taco Bell menu in 2020 and was reintroduced in 2023 as a partner product to the Wild Strawberry Freeze and Strawberry Twists. That's a lot of berry to get buried under, which makes having a cold concoction at the ready an even better prospect.

Reviewer Faith Geiger from SheFinds.com loves the combo in the cup. "This stuff tastes exactly like Strawberry Creme Savers in drink form," she says, a reference to the hard candy Life Savers introduced in the mid-90s. Bags of the confections disappeared in the mid-2000s but have since made a comeback. Now that Taco Bell has recaptured the mix of wild strawberry and creamy vanilla in a frosted froth, fans can make a run for the border and drink to their heart's delight.