Hotcakes
Hotcakes at McDonald's. 580 calories, $4.69, 9 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 580 calories it is heavier than 86% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. Scored on McDonald's own printed label, it comes to -14 on the label score, 57th of 61 McDonald's items we can score that way. It delivers 1.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 148th of 174 items with published protein. At 124 calories per dollar it is 52nd of 184 priced items on value.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Spam® Rice & Egg | 570 | −10 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | 550 | −30 |
| Sausage Portuguese Rice | 550 | −30 |
| Hot and Crispy Chicken My | 550 | −30 |
| BBQ Bacon Grilled Chicken Sandwich | 540 | −40 |
What a Hotcakes costs across America
Priced at 12235 McDonald's restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $3.89 and $5.79, a spread of 49%.
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 in the sample is $1.29 in Atoka, TN, and the most expensive is $9.29 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. Green is cheap for the brand, red is expensive. Zoom, switch items, or tap Cheapest near me.
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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.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| OK | $3.49 | 163 | cheapest |
| TN | $3.99 | 333 | cheapest |
| IN | $3.99 | 346 | cheapest |
| NC | $3.99 | 433 | cheapest |
| HI | $6.29 | 62 | most expensive |
| MT | $6.00 | 17 | most expensive |
| SD | $5.89 | 17 | most expensive |
| AZ | $5.79 | 254 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
483 of the 12,238 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-01. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.3%. A typical one now charges $4.69.
2026-09-01 · $4.89 to 2026-09-26 · $4.69. 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.
See every Hotcakes we price on the map — 12,235 restaurants, one dot each →
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Hotcakes’s $4.69. 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.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egg McMuffin® | $4.69 | 40% | 12,234 |
| Sausage Egg Biscuit | $4.69 | 43% | 12,234 |
| Basket of Fries | $4.69 | 33% | 3,719 |
| Sausage McMuffin® with Egg | $4.59 | 39% | 12,234 |
| Cheesy Jalapeno Bacon Egg and Cheese Biscuit | $4.50 | — | 15 |
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 40 g |
| Calcium | 130 mg |
| Cholesterol | 40 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Iron | 3 mg |
| Potassium | 430 mg |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 530 mg |
| Sugars | 45 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 101 g |
| Total Fat | 15 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 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.