Hotcakes at McDonald's. 580 calories, $4.69, 9 g protein.
At 580 calories it is heavier than 93% of the 134 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 270. Scored on McDonald's’s own printed label, it comes to -14 on the label score, 17th of 25 McDonald's items we can score that way. It delivers 1.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 92nd of 111 items with published protein. At 124 calories per dollar it is 12th of 37 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Hotcakes and Sausage | 564 | −16 |
| Egg & Cheese McGriddles | 563 | −17 |
| Big Mac | 563 | −17 |
| Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddles® | 550 | −30 |
| Spicy McCrispy™ | 530 | −50 |
Priced at 12196 Taco Bell 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 bar gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest of the chart.
The cheapest Hotcakes in the sample is $1.29 in Atoka, TN, and the most expensive is $9.29 in Brawley, CA — 620% more. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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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 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 | 162 | cheapest |
| TN | $3.99 | 332 | cheapest |
| IN | $3.99 | 346 | cheapest |
| NC | $3.99 | 431 | 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 |
| 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.