About This Site

gygcalories.com is a one-person side project. If you're here for the tool itself, it lives on the homepage: the GYG calorie calculator works out the nutritional information for any custom GYG order. This page is just the story of why it exists.

Why I built it

I eat at guzman y gomez a fair amount and for standard orders it was relatively straight forward to check how many calories etc. there were in my order.

However I was ran into a problem where if I made my order even slightly custom (adding guacamole), it was tedious and time consuming to figure out the macros I was eating with the PDF GYG puts out.

The above snippet from the PDF GYG puts out is great for simple orders, but not so much for customised ones where you add or remove an ingredient.

You have to jump up and down this enormous PDF manually calculating how many calories you were gaining or losing, and that's just for calories, what about when I want to know how much protein or sodium was in my order.

I found it incredibly time consuming, so that's why I developed this user friendly tool to help you (and me!) make informed choices about our GYG favorites without the hassle.

Where the data comes from

Every figure on the site is based on Guzman y Gomez's published Australian nutrition data, the same numbers behind the full GYG menu with calories and each item's nutrition page. Menus change, so always double-check the latest in-store information.

Love the calculator but it's missing a feature? Click here!

Let me know if you'd like a new feature or I've missed an ingredient by clicking above and leaving a comment, I'll try and implement it as soon as possible, cheers!