Hotcakes and Steak at McDonald's. 740 calories, $6.29, 23 g protein.
At 740 calories it is heavier than 93% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Scored on McDonald's own printed label, it comes to -12 on the label score, 54th of 61 McDonald's items we can score that way. It delivers 3.1 g of protein per 100 calories, 106th of 174 items with published protein. At 118 calories per dollar it is 62nd of 184 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Hotcakes and Bacon | 730 | −10 |
| Bacon BBQ Burger | 730 | −10 |
| Sausage Egg Cheese Bagel | 710 | −30 |
| Big Breakfast with Steak | 710 | −30 |
| Sausage Egg and Cheese Bagel | 710 | −30 |
Priced at 9243 McDonald's restaurants in 49 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $5.29 and $7.59, a spread of 43%.
It is on the menu at 9243 of the 12235 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.
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.
The cheapest Hotcakes and Steak in the sample is $3.59 in Melbourne, FL, and the most expensive is $10.79 in Brawley, CA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
The same map as the rest of the site. Each pin is one restaurant that sells a Hotcakes and Steak. Green is cheap for the brand, red is expensive. Zoom, switch items, or tap Cheapest near me.
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About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 49 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 41 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | $4.99 | 161 | cheapest |
| NE | $5.34 | 32 | cheapest |
| WV | $5.59 | 73 | cheapest |
| ID | $5.59 | 36 | cheapest |
| SD | $7.84 | 12 | most expensive |
| AZ | $7.79 | 206 | most expensive |
| MT | $7.75 | 17 | most expensive |
| AK | $7.70 | 19 | most expensive |
252 of the 9,269 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.6%. A typical one now charges $6.29.
2026-09-01 · $6.59 to 2026-09-26 · $6.29. 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.
See every Hotcakes and Steak we price on the map — 9,243 restaurants, one dot each →
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Hotcakes and Steak’s $6.29. 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.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Piece McCrispy™ Strips | $6.29 | 26% | 12,235 |
| Quarter Pounder® with Cheese Deluxe | $6.49 | 35% | 12,233 |
| Steak Egg Cheese Bagel | $6.49 | 31% | 12,217 |
| Big Breakfast/Steak Hot Cake | $6.09 | 72% | 6,209 |
| Big Breakfast with Bacon & Hotcakes | $6.09 | 64% | 3,370 |
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 40 g |
| Calcium | 140 mg |
| Cholesterol | 85 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Iron | 4 mg |
| Potassium | 610 mg |
| Protein | 23 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 940 mg |
| Sugars | 46 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 103 g |
| Total Fat | 26 g |
| Trans Fat | 1 g |
| Vitamin D | 0 mcg |
The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.