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Before you start to get too hungry reading about breakfast at fast food restaurants, we’ll stop. Hash brown steak burritos, doughnut bits, mocha iced coffee… okay, we’ll stop. And even that is only the very tip of the iceberg.

Nowadays, a lot of fast food outlets serve breakfast, and they are constantly coming up with new, inventive ways to serve it based on accessibility, innovation, and signature dishes. We visited more than a dozen large chains to identify the greatest breakfast in the fast food industry. We’ll let you know where to go the next time you’re in the mood for a breakfast sandwich. This is the top fast-food breakfast item.

1. Subway

It appears that Subway’s breakfast, which consists of an egg, cheese, and varied lunch meat on a flatbread or any other bread you want, was inspired by Lunchables Brunchables. The cheese, bacon, and egg are insipid and limp. Maybe choose the Brunchables instead of these flatbreads, which tend to taste like edible cardboard.

2. Krystal

Krystal serves breakfast until 11 a.m. It’s quite obvious that this snack-sized burger company doesn’t do breakfast very well. But if you must visit for breakfast, here’s what you need to know. Stick with the Sunriser since it is the signature item, similar to Krystal’s famous tiny burgers, but with sausage or bacon, egg, and cheese in place of the hamburger patty.

Other choices include the Original Scrambler Bowl, which consists of grits topped with scrambled eggs, cheese, and a sausage patty. Although it’s not that tasty and not something you should get. The Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit, on the other hand, is a welcome surprise. The egg tastes just like it says it does—”freshly cracked.” Although the biscuit is dense, there is plenty of butter to make up for it. The Chik Biscuit is so painfully dry that adding your sauce is the only way to save it.

3. White Castle

Look, you just consumed an entire bag of sizzling sliders in the early morning, so it’s unlikely that you will be eating breakfast at White Castle. However, there is one way to make the most of it if, for some reason. You decide to go with the Petite Patty Palace instead of one of the numerous other chains selling superior breakfast options: order everything.

This breakfast menu’s range of options combined with the chain’s typical tiny quantities is its one redeeming feature. This enables you to satisfy any savory or sweet breakfast craving by ordering a variety of items. Such as a basic breakfast slider with bacon, another breakfast slider with sausage, a Belgian Waffle Slider, a Chicken & Waffle Slider, and a large bag of Hash Brown Nibblers.

4. Burger King

Even though Burger King appears to constantly be in a good mood, he won’t appreciate what we have to say. The good news is that the egg and cheese Croissan’Wich, which can be topped with bacon, ham, or sausage, is still a reliable morning option.

Nearly everything else is a bit of a jumble, with overstuffed and excessively salty options like the Egg-Normous Burrito and the Fully Loaded Buttermilk Biscuit (ham, sausage, bacon, and cheese) (sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns, cheese). Another throwback from the 1980s, French Toast Sticks are still popular, but they can’t compete with the many inventive breakfast options available today.

5. Bojangles

It’s not unexpected that Bojangles’ menu for breakfast just includes biscuits; it’s what this local chain always does. So if you enjoy biscuits, you’re in luck. The regular Egg & Cheese Biscuit is merely passable whereas the Pimento Cheese Biscuit is substantial and stereotypically southern.

The bacon and chicken biscuits should be avoided because they are bland and dry. The Bo-Berry Biscuit, a heart-shaped biscuit with blueberries inside and a drizzle of icing on top, is the star of the show here. They will satiate a sweet tooth and are served warm, so patience is advised. The fact that Bojangles’ breakfast menu is available all day is a plus.

6. Carl’s Jr

Burgers for breakfast ought to have a breakfast flavor. It isn’t worth ordering if the beef patty overpowers the sandwich’s other flavors and makes it impossible to taste the other components of the Breakfast Burger, such as the eggs and hash browns.

The breakfast menu is primarily comprised of a few sandwiches and burritos, a few biscuits, and French Toast Dips for those who prefer something sweet. The substantial Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit’s generously portioned folded egg is a highlight, but the Big Country Breakfast Burrito takes first place.

With warm sausage gravy that enhances every component, it touches, scrambled eggs, cheese, bacon, sausage, ham, and hash browns are wrapped in a hot, fresh tortilla. Burrito gets covered. You’ll get tongue coating. You’ll be craving more.

7. Del Taco

Let’s play a game similar to Jeopardy! Here is the hint: Rarely does any other fast food restaurant’s morning menu include this meat. What is carne asada, you ask?

This Tex-Mex restaurant not only offers that excellent protein choice, but it also has the best selection of breakfast dishes made with tortillas. Consider the scrumptious Breakfast Toasted Wrap with Carne Asada, which is loaded with eggs, hash potatoes, cheddar, pico, and salsa casera.

It smells divine and tastes much better. The Breakfast Burrito, which we used to get with the chain’s spicy chorizo (which was regrettably removed), is a less complicated—yet equally satisfying—option. It now has your choice of carne asada or bacon inside.

Donut Bites with an ultra-sugary (but ultra-delicious) iced coffee for a dollar make for a satisfying meal’s finale.

8. Sonic Drive-In

Even though most fast food restaurants finished serving breakfast a half-hour ago, the drive-in chain doesn’t care if you arrive at 11:01 am and request breakfast food. You may get French toast sticks, burritos, and Texas toast using it whenever you want. However, don’t just choose anything from the breakfast buffet.

A mishmash of elements (egg, sausage, jalapeno, onion, tots, tomato, cheddar) that doesn’t combine well enough to make a satisfying meal should be avoided is the SuperSONIC Breakfast Burrito. Better is the bacon breakfast toaster (their caps, not ours), which will make you think of the grilled cheese and egg sandwich you’d prepare in your kitchen if you weren’t so tired or lazy.

On the sweeter side of things, it offers sugary dessert egg rolls called Cinnabon Cinnasnacks, which are finest dunked in its chilled cream cheese icing. If you consume more than one, your dentist will discover it and book a cavity filling. Additionally, you would be doing yourself a grave disservice if you left a Sonic without having an iced coffee poured over their renowned nugget ice. It’s a rich, stimulating coffee that goes well with any breakfast item.

9. Whataburger

Taquitos are traditionally consumed as a late-night breakfast item in Whataburger towns sometime after 2 a.m., although the restaurant’s breakfast items still impress even at earlier times. The variety is astounding. You can get sandwiches on biscuits (jalapeno-cheddar or regular) with a hard-fried disc of egg, cheese, and choice of meat (including a nice, kinda-spicy sausage patty that tastes way better than the pizza topping crumbles in the taquitos), as well as breakfast sandwiches with the same fillings on burger buns, in addition to the restaurant’s signature Taquitos with fluffy scrambled eggs, American cheese, and choice of

With fried chicken tenders and a gooey honey butter sauce that just gets better as you add more, the Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit has emerged as one of the biggest hits in recent years. Even the fluffy pancakes with crispy ends taste as if they came from a diner rather than a drive-through. In all honesty, there isn’t a single breakfast dish on this menu that we wouldn’t regularly eat.

10. Jack in the Box

For starters, Jack in the Box gets kudos for offering 16 radically distinctive breakfast options. little pancakes! Burritos! Biscuits! Croissants! Additionally, you can order them at any time. Not all of it is worth your money; the crisp, hickory-smoked bacon is the only standout item in a mostly unremarkable breakfast sandwich line. Although the piled Loaded Breakfast Sandwich with its huge amounts of bacon and eggs looks great on Instagram, it comes across as more of a dare than a well-planned breakfast meal.

You might be astonished to hear that the straightforward Breakfast Jack is the greatest breakfast item on the menu when compared to that. An extremely thinly fried egg, sliced ham, and American cheese on a bun so plush you could sleep on it during a long-haul flight—while not the most seductive item, it is the tastiest they have. You can start your morning off well by ordering a Mocha Sweet Cream Iced Coffee that tastes exactly like chocolate milk. the night.

11. Taco Bell

Inexplicably, the fast food establishment that created Fourthmeal in 2007 does not offer breakfast all day. For a restaurant that prides itself on being inventive, especially at breakfast, this seems like a squandered opportunity. Before going on sale nationwide in 2014, the Waffle Taco made waves online in 2013 when it first appeared in a few places. Even if the Waffle Taco is no longer available, there are still many things to discuss.

Nowadays, the majority of Taco Bell’s morning offerings are toasted breakfast burritos, which you can order with a variety of breakfast meats (or none at all!) and with or without a hash brown inside. However, the Hash Brown Toasted Breakfast Burrito is a delightful, eggy, cheesy, potato-filled bundle of breakfast joy that doesn’t even require meat to be delicious. The rubbery sausage in the Cheesy Toasted Breakfast Burrito is a miss (pro tip: order it vegetarian).

The Breakfast Crunchwrap, which has a crispy hash brown jammed within to give it the name “crunch,” is another item that must be ordered. It comes with a warm, inviting Creamy Jalapeno Sauce. While you’re here, you might as well enjoy a side of buttery Cinnabon Delights, right? Additionally, if you want to embrace the Taco Bell breakfast motif and go all out, have a drink for the morning.

Mountain Dew Kickstart Orange Citrus soda has about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee, so you can sip it (92mg). If you prefer coffee over soda for the morning (and we wouldn’t blame you), T-Bell now offers Cinnabon Delights hot and iced coffee.

12. Chick-fil-A

If there are any facts about Chick-fil-A, they are that it is closed on Sunday, that it has made contentious donations in the past, and that, oh yeah, it serves some of the best chicken and biscuits in the fast food industry (no offense to Popeyes, which is also fantastic but does not serve breakfast). Strangely, unlike the rest of its menu, Chick-fil-breakfast A’s has not received rave reviews.

You might think that having a small selection of menu items, providing breakfast just six days a week, and only opening for business six days a week would make it less likely to place highly on our list. Yet, no. We can confidently claim that the food is some of the best available.

Starting the Hash Brown Scramble Burrito is highly recommended. A perplexingly delicious way to start the day is with scrambled eggs, hash browns, cheddar, and chicken nuggets that have been diced up. Eggs are rarely detectable in this burrito, therefore they are completely unnecessary. However, there is so much delicious, fried goodness to eat that it is difficult to find fault.

The Chicken Biscuit is a unique food item. Does it help that every location bakes biscuits continuously throughout the morning to guarantee that you get one that was just pulled hot and fresh from the oven? Yes. The Chick-Chicken Biscuit has no decorations. When all you require is flawlessly fried chicken and a buttery biscuit for a few dollars, it doesn’t have to be. When the breakfast dish is already a huge bell and whistle, a chain may not need to offer it with other bells and whistles.

Because every morning needs coffee, Chick-fil-A serves both excellent hot coffee (we rank it second among fast food establishments) and some of the best-iced coffee available. Although it doesn’t quite match the quality of a third-wave cup, it is still on par with Starbucks cold brew or McDonald’s McCafe.

Let’s not discuss the Greek yogurt parfait, the chicken, egg, and cheese bagel, or the English muffins and biscuits with bacon or sausage, egg, and cheese. If you’re searching for something basic, they’re all great. The Chick-n-Minis, however, stands out as the most distinctive item. The honey butter-topped little yeast rolls are light, delectable treats that belong in the fast food hall of fame. Each roll contains a tiny, flawless chicken nugget, and the end product is a breakfast item we didn’t know we needed every morning.

13. Wendy’s

Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 was the worst conceivable time to launch a new product (and generally the worst possible time), Wendy’s massive, nationwide breakfast menu failed horribly. I’m joking. I would have thought so, yes? Instead, the creative minds at Wendy’s came up with an amazing breakfast menu that is so darn tasty and original that it actually brought the restaurant a tonne of new customers. The breakfast menu at Wendy’s provides alternatives for almost any mood, including basic sandwiches, biscuit sandwiches, croissant sandwiches, savory sides, sweet sides, coffee, and more. We’re proud to declare that it is now the best breakfast available at a fast food restaurant. Let’s start now.

The Breakfast Baconator, a substantial breakfast-themed take on the standard menu item, is the main course. It’s comparable to having a burger for breakfast and having a friend dare you to attempt to finish it before 8 am. A fried egg, two layers of bacon and cheese, sausage, and some hollandaise-Swiss cheese sauce are all piled on top of them at Wendy’s. It’s quite a bit. Although it might be a little too large to eat in the car with one hand, its size is in no way a drawback in this case. You’ll be stuffed. Additionally, depending on what you did the previous evening, you might not feel as hungover the next day.

Yes, the Breakfast Baconator lives up to expectations, but Wendy’s really outshines the competition when it comes to its selection of breakfast chicken. The Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant is a total triumph: crispy fried chicken tucked inside a soft, simple-to-eat croissant, covered in a mind-blowing maple butter spread that any rival should take off right away. By mixing that delectable chicken with a smidge of sweetness atop a buttery biscuit, the honey butter chicken biscuit also nails the sweet and savory pairing. Then there is the Spicy Honey Chicken Biscuit, which with its enlivening habanero hot honey sauce carries a level of heat suitable for an early morning meal.

Let’s now discuss the sides. Although a straightforward hash brown is always a good choice. Wendy’s has chosen Seasoned Potatoes, which are thick, naturally cut wedges seasoned with salt, black pepper, and garlic powder. They are a filling option for even the most ravenous breakfast eaters, especially when coupled with Breakfast Baconator. The Oatmeal Bar and Apple Slices, which are grease-free options to complete your lunch, are on the other end of the range.

Whatever you choose, follow it up with a brilliant Chocolate Frosty-casino (cold brew coffee with Frosty flavoring), which is superior to 75% of Starbucks’ Frappuccinos in taste. And far less expensive. Speaking of less expensive, Wendy’s frequently runs promotions on its mobile app for breakfast. So there’s a high possibility you can have the best fast food meal for less.