Denny’s Menu With Prices (Updated)

Denny’s Menu Prices at a Glance

Denny’s is America’s Diner and it behaves like one. Breakfast runs around the clock at most locations, the menu covers everything from a $6 slam to a T-bone steak, and the room is open when almost nothing else is. That last part is the whole proposition.

Prices below are shown as ranges rather than single figures, and that is deliberate. Roughly 95 percent of Denny’s restaurants are independently owned franchises that set their own prices, so a Build Your Own Grand Slam that is $6.99 in one town is $8.99 forty miles away. Anyone publishing a single national price for Denny’s is guessing. The ranges below are in restaurant figures checked across several states in 2026.

Why Denny’s Prices Vary So Much

This is worth understanding before you compare any Denny’s price list against your local restaurant. About 95 percent of the chain is franchised, and unlike a company owned estate there is no benchmark price that operators work around. Each restaurant prices against its own rent, labor and local competition.

In practice the gap on the same dish runs two to three dollars between a small town restaurant and one in a city center or at a highway junction. Airport and travel plaza locations run higher again. A Grand Slam is the same food everywhere, but what you pay for it is a local decision, so treat every figure on this page as the middle of a range rather than a quote.

Denny’s Grand Slams

The Grand Slam has been on this menu since 1977 and it is still the reason most people walk in. Every slam is a fixed combination of breakfast items at one price, and they run from the cheapest full meal on the menu up to the largest.

Build Your Own Grand Slam

This is the one to understand properly, because it is the best value on the menu and most people default to the same four items without reading the list. You pick any four, and the price is the same whichever four you choose.

Breakfast and Eggs

Everything in this section is available at any hour at most locations. Moons Over My Hammy is the signature and has been on the menu for decades, ham and scrambled egg with Swiss and American on grilled sourdough.

Pancakes and French Toast

Pancakes come as a short stack of two or a full stack of three, and the specialty stacks are among the heaviest items on the whole menu once the toppings land.

Skillets

Skillets are served in the pan on a wooden board and they are the most substantial breakfast on the menu. The Fit Fare Veggie Skillet at 370 calories is the outlier and the lightest hot breakfast Denny’s sells.

Burgers

Every burger comes with fries and the calorie figures include them. The Slamburger is the one to know about, a burger with hash browns and a fried egg on it, which is Denny’s putting breakfast inside dinner.

Sandwiches and Melts

The Super Bird is the oldest sandwich on the menu, turkey with bacon and Swiss on grilled sourdough, and it is still the lightest of the group.

Dinner Entrees

The dinner menu gets ordered far less than breakfast and it is where the lighter full meals live. Wild Alaska Salmon at 560 calories and Tilapia Ranchero at 520 are both well under most of the breakfast plates.

The wide calorie ranges on the dinner plates are because each comes with two sides of your choice, and the sides move the number far more than the entree does. Steamed broccoli and a side salad against loaded mashed potatoes and onion rings is a difference of several hundred calories on the same plate.

Appetizers

The nachos are the heaviest starter on the menu by a wide margin and the half portion exists for a reason.

Soups and Salads

The house salad with grilled chicken at around 420 calories is the lightest full lunch on the menu.

The Denny’s 55 Plus Menu

Denny’s runs a separate menu for guests aged 55 and over and it is not always offered without being asked for. Portions are smaller versions of the regular plates at meaningfully lower prices, and it covers breakfast, starters, dinners and salads rather than just one or two dishes.

Ask for it by name. Not every server offers it and at some restaurants the menu sits behind the counter rather than on the table, so plenty of people who qualify never see it.

Kids Menu

The kids menu covers children under ten and each meal comes with a drink. Kids Eat Free promotions run at many restaurants on set evenings, usually with one free kids meal per paying adult, but the day varies by franchise.

Desserts and Milkshakes

The specialty milkshakes are all over a thousand calories, which is more than most of the burgers. The classic shakes are around 250 lighter and cost a dollar less.

Drinks

Coffee and fountain drinks are bottomless, which matters a great deal at a restaurant people sit in for a long time at odd hours.

Denny’s Hours

Denny’s built its reputation on being open when nothing else is, and most restaurants still run 24 hours with the full menu available the whole time. Fewer do than before 2020, so it is worth checking rather than assuming.

Denny’s is one of the few national chains that stays open on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day at a large number of locations, which is why it is busier than usual on both.

How to Order at Denny’s for Less

Start with Build Your Own Grand Slam. At $6.99 to $8.99 for four items it is the cheapest full breakfast on the menu and the four items are entirely your choice at no price difference.

If you are 55 or over, ask for the 55 plus menu even if the server does not offer it, because the same plates come smaller for two to four dollars less. Take the bottomless coffee or fountain drink rather than juice or a shake, since only the first two refill free. Join Denny’s Rewards before you go rather than after, because it sends a free Grand Slam around your birthday and offers through the year.

And if you have children with you, ask whether your restaurant runs Kids Eat Free and on which evening, because it is a franchise level decision and the day is different from town to town.

Denny’s Nutrition Notes

The thing to understand here is that almost every number on the menu is a range rather than a figure, because nearly every plate comes with choices. A Build Your Own Grand Slam runs from about 320 calories to over 1,100 depending only on which four items you pick, at exactly the same price.

The genuinely light orders exist and they are easy to find. The Fit Slam is 420, the Fit Fare Veggie Skillet is 370, a house salad with grilled chicken is around 420, Tilapia Ranchero is 520 and Wild Alaska Salmon is 560. The heavy end is very heavy, with the specialty pancake stacks clearing 1,700 and the full Zesty Nachos at 1,670. On sodium, the cured breakfast meats, the gravies and the melts carry the most, and the egg white and turkey bacon combinations carry the least.

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