Hotcakes and Sausage

Hotcakes and Sausage at McDonald's. 770 calories, $5.69, 15 g protein.

Hotcakes and Sausage

Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.

770calories
$5.69price
15 gprotein
Dnutrition score
135calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 770 calories it is heavier than 94% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Its nutrition score is D — poor. Little nutrition for the calories. It ranks 37th of 46 scored McDonald's items. It delivers 1.9 g of protein per 100 calories, 139th of 174 items with published protein. At 135 calories per dollar it is 37th of 184 priced items on value.

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ItemCaloriesSaving
Philly Cheese Stack760−10
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3 McSpicy® Bone-In Wings750−20
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Double Quarter Pounder® with Cheese740−30

The same thing at other chains

ChainItemCaloriesNutrient density
Chick-fil-ASausage240—

What a Hotcakes and Sausage costs across America

Priced at 12235 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $4.75 and $6.89, a spread of 45%.

$5.69median price
$4.75–$6.89middle 80%
12235restaurants priced
50states
270 restaurants at $3.99–$4.22252 restaurants at $4.22–$4.45417 restaurants at $4.45–$4.68873 restaurants at $4.68–$4.911037 restaurants at $4.91–$5.141264 restaurants at $5.14–$5.371426 restaurants at $5.37–$5.601006 restaurants at $5.60–$5.821470 restaurants at $5.82–$6.05556 restaurants at $6.05–$6.281202 restaurants at $6.28–$6.51915 restaurants at $6.51–$6.74448 restaurants at $6.74–$6.971099 restaurants at $6.97 and above$3.99$6.97+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.

Point at a bar, or tab to it, for the count and the share of restaurants at that price.

$3.19cheapest sampled — North East, PA
$10.99most expensive sampled — Kapolei, HI

The cheapest Hotcakes and Sausage in the sample is $3.19 in North East, PA, and the most expensive is $10.99 in Kapolei, HI. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
OK$4.29163cheapest
MS$4.89103cheapest
NC$4.99433cheapest
TN$4.99333cheapest
HI$7.8962most expensive
AZ$7.19254most expensive
MT$7.0017most expensive
SD$6.9917most expensive

What it has cost since we started watching

539 of the 12,238 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +4.0%. A typical one now charges $5.69.

$5.69$5.84$5.992026-09-01 - $5.99 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-02 - $5.99 - median of 449 restaurants2026-09-03 - $5.69 - median of 12,204 restaurants2026-09-04 - $5.69 - median of 12,212 restaurants2026-09-05 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-06 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-07 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-08 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-09 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-10 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-11 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-12 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-13 - $5.69 - median of 12,223 restaurants2026-09-14 - $5.69 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-15 - $5.69 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-16 - $5.69 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-17 - $5.69 - median of 12,224 restaurants2026-09-18 - $5.69 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-19 - $5.69 - median of 12,227 restaurants2026-09-20 - $5.69 - median of 12,228 restaurants2026-09-21 - $5.69 - median of 12,228 restaurants2026-09-22 - $5.69 - median of 12,228 restaurants2026-09-23 - $5.69 - median of 12,230 restaurants2026-09-24 - $5.69 - median of 12,230 restaurants2026-09-25 - $5.69 - median of 12,238 restaurants2026-09-26 - $5.69 - median of 12,238 restaurants2026-09-012026-09-26

2026-09-01 · $5.99 to 2026-09-26 · $5.69. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.

The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.

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Priced like this at McDonald's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Hotcakes and Sausage’s $5.69. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.

ItemMedianSpreadRestaurants
10 pc. Spicy Chicken McNuggets®$5.6932%12,219
Bacon Egg Cheese Bagel$5.6934%12,217
Sausage Egg Cheese Bagel$5.6934%12,215
Deluxe McCrispy™$5.7933%12,235
Steak Egg Cheese Biscuit$5.7933%9,915

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Added Sugars40 g
Calcium140 mg
Cholesterol75 mg
Dietary Fiber2 g
Iron3 mg
Potassium520 mg
Protein15 g
Saturated Fat12 g
Sodium810 mg
Sugars46 g
Total Carbohydrate102 g
Total Fat33 g
Trans Fat0 g
Vitamin D0 mcg

The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.