The full Waffle House menu with current prices and calories. The All-Star Special, every hashbrown style decoded, waffles, omelets, hashbrown bowls, biscuits, Texas melts, steak and pork chop dinners, kids meals and drinks. Updated for 2026.
Waffle House has no freezer and no microwave. Everything on the menu is cooked on a flat grill six feet from where you are sitting, which is why the room smells the way it does and why the food comes out in the order the cook decides rather than the order you asked. That constraint shapes the whole menu. Nothing on it needs a fryer basket timer or a holding cabinet.
Prices below are shown as ranges because Waffle House does not publish a single national price list. The chain prices by market, so the same All-Star Special runs a dollar or more apart between a rural Georgia restaurant and one on an interstate exit in a metro area.
This is the part everybody wants and almost nobody explains completely. Waffle House hashbrowns have eight named toppings plus a set of cooking instructions, and each one is a single word the cook recognizes instantly. Say the words in order and you will sound like you have been coming here for years.
| Say This | You Get | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Scattered | Spread flat across the grill | Now the default, so you rarely need to say it |
| Smothered | Sauteed onions | The one most people start with |
| Covered | Melted American cheese | Goes on last so it stays gooey |
| Chunked | Hickory smoked ham | Diced and mixed through |
| Diced | Chopped tomatoes | Adds water, so order well with it |
| Peppered | Pickled jalapenos | The only heat on the whole plate |
| Capped | Sauteed mushrooms | Cooked down on the grill first |
| Topped | A ladle of chili | Turns the plate into a full meal |
| Country | Peppery sausage gravy | Less common now but still available |
Three more words control how they are cooked rather than what goes on them. Well means longer on the grill in more oil for extra crisp. Dry means no oil at all. Steamed means cooked inside a metal ring with ice cubes, which gives you soft hashbrowns rather than crisp ones.
The order you say them in does not matter to the cook, but the traditional phrasing is scattered, smothered and covered, which is hashbrowns spread flat with onions and cheese. That is the one on the sign and the one most people mean when they say they want the usual.
This is the order the whole menu is built around and it is what to get if you have never been. It is not a combo assembled from cheaper parts, it is the reference meal.
| All-Star Special | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| All-Star Special | $12.35 to $13.55 | About 1,050 |
What arrives is two eggs cooked any style, a serving of hashbrowns, one classic waffle, your choice of meat, and toast or a biscuit. Priced separately those five things come to more than the special, which is the point. At around 1,050 calories it is also a large meal, so the thing to know is that you can order the waffle plain or hold the toast without the price changing, and plenty of people do.
The meat choice is where the decision sits. Bacon is the lightest at around 130 calories for two strips, sausage is the heaviest at 180 for one patty, and city ham at 110 is lighter than either.
Breakfast runs all day and all night, which at Waffle House is not a marketing line, it is the only way the restaurant works. There is no breakfast cutoff because there is no closing time.
| Breakfast Plate | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Two Egg Breakfast | $6.90 to $7.80 | 540 |
| Cheese N’ Eggs with Raisin Toast | $7.50 to $8.40 | 600 |
| Two Eggs with Side Meat | $9.00 to $10.10 | 700 |
| Texas Breakfast Melt | $9.50 to $10.50 | 780 |
| Steak and Eggs | $11.00 to $12.50 | 820 |
| Chicken and Eggs | $11.00 to $12.00 | 780 |
| Pork Chops and Eggs | $11.50 to $13.00 | 870 |
Eggs come scrambled, over easy, over medium, over well, sunny side up, poached or as an omelet, and the cook does not blink at any of them. Scrambled with cheese is written on the board as Cheese N’ Eggs and is a separate plate rather than an upcharge.
The waffle is the reason for the name and it is made from a batter Waffle House has not changed in decades. Each one is poured to order, which is why it takes about four minutes.
| Waffle | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Waffle | $4.95 to $5.25 | 410 |
| Chocolate Chip Waffle | $5.45 to $5.70 | 520 |
| Pecan Waffle | $5.45 to $5.70 | 560 |
| Peanut Butter Chip Waffle | $5.45 to $5.70 | 560 |
| Blueberry Waffle | $5.45 to $5.70 | 560 |
| Chicken and Waffles | $12.00 to $13.50 | 900 |
A classic waffle at 410 calories is lighter than most of the breakfast plates and is one of the cheapest full items on the menu. The flavored waffles add 110 to 150 calories for about fifty cents. Butter and syrup go on at the table, so the figures above are before either.
Hashbrowns at Waffle House are shredded potato cooked on the flat grill, not formed patties and not fried in a basket. The pricing is simple and the toppings are where it moves.
| Hashbrowns | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Plain | $3.25 to $3.75 | 310 |
| One Topping | $4.00 to $4.50 | 370 and up |
| All the Way | $6.50 to $7.50 | 520 and up |
Plain hashbrowns at 310 calories are one of the better light options on the menu, and cheaper than almost anything else that fills you up. The jump to all the way adds around 210 calories and roughly three dollars, which for eight toppings is the clearest bargain in the building.
The bowls are a full meal built on the hashbrowns rather than beside them, and they are the newest real addition to the menu.
| Hashbrown Bowl | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Grits Bowl | $4.50 to $5.25 | 320 |
| Chicken Melt Bowl | $10.30 to $10.55 | 635 |
| Ham Egg and Cheese Bowl | $10.30 to $11.00 | 780 |
| Bacon Egg and Cheese Bowl | $10.30 to $11.00 | 800 |
| Cheesesteak Melt Bowl | $10.50 to $11.50 | 850 |
| Sausage Egg and Cheese Bowl | $10.30 to $11.00 | 920 |
All three of the egg and cheese bowls cost the same, and the difference between the ham at 780 and the sausage at 920 is entirely the meat. If you want the bowl and you are watching the number, ask for ham.
The name is a piece of company history. Waffle House bought the Toddle House chain in the 1960s and kept the omelet, which is beaten until it is light rather than folded flat.
| Omelet | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Cheese Omelet | $7.50 to $8.50 | 520 |
| Ham and Cheese Omelet | $9.00 to $10.00 | 620 |
| Fiesta Omelet | $9.50 to $10.50 | 640 |
| Cheesesteak Omelet | $9.50 to $10.50 | 700 |
| Build Your Own Omelet | $7.50 to $11.00 | Varies |
Every omelet comes with hashbrowns and toast or a biscuit, which is why they price close to the full breakfast plates. Build Your Own uses the same topping list as the hashbrowns, so onions, cheese, ham, tomato, jalapeno and mushroom are all on the table.
The biscuits are the cheapest hot food on the menu and the grilled biscuit and gravy at under four dollars is the single cheapest thing that counts as a meal.
| Biscuit | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Grilled Biscuit and Gravy | $2.65 to $3.50 | 380 |
| City Ham Biscuit | $4.50 to $5.50 | 440 |
| Country Ham Biscuit | $4.50 to $5.50 | 450 |
| Chicken Biscuit | $5.00 to $6.00 | 490 |
| Bacon Egg and Cheese Biscuit | $5.50 to $6.50 | 520 |
| Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuit | $5.50 to $6.50 | 580 |
City ham and country ham are not the same thing and the menu treats them as separate items. City ham is wet cured and mild. Country ham is dry cured and salty in the way an old style Southern ham is meant to be. If you have not had country ham before, order it knowing it is a salt forward taste rather than a mistake.
Texas melts are built on thick Texas toast rather than a bun, griddled the same way as everything else.
| Texas Melt | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Grilled Chicken Melt | $9.50 to $10.50 | 700 |
| Cheesesteak Melt | $9.50 to $10.50 | 780 |
| Angus Patty Melt | $9.50 to $10.50 | 820 |
| Sausage Melt | $9.50 to $10.50 | 850 |
| Bacon Patty Melt | $11.00 to $12.00 | 940 |
Most people never order off this half of the menu, which is a shame because the steaks and pork chops are cooked on the same grill and cost less than they would anywhere else that serves them at three in the morning.
| Lunch or Dinner | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Angus Hamburger | $8.50 to $9.50 | 660 |
| Grilled Chicken Sandwich | $9.00 to $10.00 | 540 |
| Country Ham Dinner | $10.00 to $11.50 | 620 |
| Chicken Dinner | $10.50 to $11.50 | 580 |
| Pork Chop Dinner | $11.50 to $12.50 | 700 |
| Sirloin Dinner | $12.00 to $13.50 | 680 |
| T-Bone Steak | $14.00 to $15.15 | 780 |
A T-bone steak for around fifteen dollars, served at any hour, is the most underrated thing Waffle House does. It arrives with hashbrowns and toast. It is not a steakhouse cut and it is not pretending to be, but for the money and the hour it is hard to argue with.
| Side | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Sliced Tomatoes | $1.50 to $2.00 | 10 |
| Toast, 2 slices | $1.75 to $2.25 | 160 |
| Sausage, 1 patty | $2.50 to $3.25 | 180 |
| Grilled Biscuit | $2.65 to $3.00 | 210 |
| Grits | $2.75 to $3.50 | 90 |
| Bacon, 2 strips | $3.00 to $3.75 | 130 |
| City Ham | $3.00 to $3.75 | 110 |
| Country Ham | $3.25 to $4.00 | 120 |
Grits at 90 calories are the lightest thing on the entire menu and they come buttered unless you ask otherwise. Ordering them plain drops the number further. Sliced tomatoes at 10 calories are the only genuinely raw item Waffle House sells.
| Kids Item | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Bacon or Sausage Side | $2.00 to $2.75 | 130 to 180 |
| Mini Waffles, 2 | $3.50 to $4.25 | 210 |
| Grilled Cheese | $3.50 to $4.25 | 380 |
| Scrambled Eggs with Toast | $3.75 to $4.50 | 300 |
| Dessert | Price Range | Calories |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Pecan Pie | $6.25 to $6.75 | 520 |
| Triple Chocolate Pie | $6.50 to $7.00 | 880 |
The triple chocolate pie at 880 calories is the heaviest single item on the whole menu, heavier than any steak dinner or melt. It is a slice of pie, and it is very good, and it is worth knowing what it costs you.
Coffee at Waffle House is bottomless and it is poured without being asked for at most counters. That matters more here than at almost any other chain, because people sit at Waffle House for a long time at strange hours.
| Drink | Price Range | Calories | Refills |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classic, Dark Roast or Decaf Coffee | $2.25 to $2.75 | 5 | Free |
| Dairy Pure Milk | $2.25 to $2.75 | 150 | No |
| Orange Juice | $2.25 to $2.75 | 110 | No |
| TruMoo Chocolate Milk | $2.25 to $2.75 | 190 | No |
| Alice’s Iced Tea | $2.50 to $3.00 | 0 | Free |
| Coca-Cola Products | $2.50 to $3.00 | 140 to 200 | Free |
| Teamonade | $2.75 to $3.25 | 90 | No |
Alice’s Iced Tea is the house tea and it comes unsweetened unless you say otherwise, which in the South is worth stating clearly either way. Teamonade is tea and lemonade mixed, the same idea as an Arnold Palmer.
If you sit at the counter you will see the cook place condiment packets, pickle slices and butter pats on empty plates before any food goes near them. That is not tidying up. It is the order ticket.
Waffle House cooks work from marked plates rather than written tickets. The server calls the order, the cook sets the plate down and marks it, and the position and identity of each item encodes what goes on it. Pickle slices in one of four positions tell the cook whether a sandwich is ham, sausage, bacon or plain. A slice of cheese added to the plate changes it to the cheese version. A mayonnaise packet placed on the right of the plate means the eggs go on over well, and the same packet moved to the bottom of the plate means scrambled instead.
The system exists because a cook working a full grill cannot look away to read a ticket, and because the plate is already in front of them. It is genuinely faster than paper and it is the reason a busy Waffle House gets food out in the order it does. If you want to watch one thing while you wait, watch that.
Waffle House restaurants are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Christmas, Thanksgiving, the middle of a Tuesday night, all the same. Many of the older buildings were built without locks on the front door because there was never a plan to use one.
That reliability turned into something unexpected. Emergency managers in the United States informally use what they call the Waffle House Index to judge how badly a storm has hit an area, on the basis that if the local Waffle House is serving a full menu the area is fine, if it is on a limited menu there is damage and power trouble, and if it is closed the situation is serious. The company itself runs a storm response operation for exactly this reason, moving generators and crews toward weather rather than away from it.
| Detail | Answer | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standard hours | 24 hours, every day | No exceptions by policy |
| Holidays | Open, including Christmas | Full menu |
| Breakfast | Available at every hour | There is no cutoff |
| Full menu overnight | Yes, including steaks | Same grill, same cook |
| Closures | Severe weather only | The basis of the Waffle House Index |
The grilled biscuit and gravy at under four dollars is the cheapest hot meal in the building. Plain hashbrowns at $3.25 and a coffee gets you fed and sitting for under six.
If you want hashbrowns with more than three toppings, go straight to all the way, because it costs less than adding them one at a time. If you want the full experience without the full price, the Two Egg Breakfast at around $7 gives you eggs, hashbrowns and toast, which is the All-Star without the waffle and the meat for about five dollars less.
Take the coffee or the iced tea rather than juice or milk, since only the first two refill free. And if you are ordering a hashbrown bowl, ask for ham rather than sausage, because the price is identical and the calories are not.
Because everything is cooked to order on an open grill, the numbers move more with how you order than with what you order. Hashbrowns cooked dry rather than in oil, eggs without butter, grits plain and toast unbuttered all shift the plate meaningfully, and asking costs nothing. Our calorie calculator gives you a daily target, which makes those small ordering choices easier to judge.
The lightest items are grits at 90 calories, sliced tomatoes at 10, plain hashbrowns at 310, a classic waffle at 410 and the Two Egg Breakfast at 540. The heaviest are the triple chocolate pie at 880, the bacon patty melt at 940, the sausage egg and cheese bowl at 920 and the All-Star Special at around 1,050. On sodium, the country ham, the sausage, the gravy and the chili carry the most by a wide margin, and eggs, grits and plain hashbrowns carry the least.
Scattered means the hashbrowns are spread flat across the grill rather than cooked in a ring, which is now the default. Smothered means sauteed onions. Covered means melted American cheese. Together they are the most ordered hashbrown combination at Waffle House and the phrase on the sign.
There are nine named toppings. Scattered is spread flat, smothered is onions, covered is cheese, chunked is hickory smoked ham, diced is tomatoes, peppered is jalapenos, capped is mushrooms, topped is chili and country is sausage gravy. Three more words control the cooking: well for extra crisp, dry for no oil and steamed for soft.
Every hashbrown topping at once, for $6.50 to $7.50. It is the best value on the menu because buying plain hashbrowns and adding the same eight toppings individually comes to around $9.25. Order it well rather than standard, since the tomatoes and chili release enough water to soften the bottom otherwise.
Two eggs cooked any style, hashbrowns, one classic waffle, your choice of meat, and toast or a biscuit, for $12.35 to $13.55 and around 1,050 calories. Priced separately those five items come to more than the special. You can hold the toast or take the waffle plain without the price changing.
Yes, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, including Christmas and Thanksgiving, with the full menu available at every hour. Many older buildings were constructed without locks on the front door. The only closures are for severe weather.
An informal gauge used by emergency managers in the United States to judge storm damage. If the local Waffle House is serving the full menu the area is in reasonable shape, a limited menu means damage and power problems, and a closed Waffle House means the situation is serious. The company runs a storm response operation moving generators and crews toward affected areas.
That is the order ticket. Cooks work from marked plates rather than paper, and the identity and position of each item encodes the order. Pickle slices in one of four positions signal ham, sausage, bacon or plain. A mayonnaise packet on the right of the plate means eggs over well, moved to the bottom it means scrambled. A cook on a full grill cannot look away to read a ticket, and the plate is already in front of them.
No. Waffle House restaurants have no freezer and no microwave, and everything is cooked to order on the flat grill in front of you. That constraint is why the menu is built the way it is, with nothing on it that needs a fryer timer or a holding cabinet.
Yes. Coffee, iced tea and fountain drinks are bottomless. Milk, chocolate milk, orange juice and Teamonade are not. At $2.25 to $2.75 with free refills, the coffee is the best value drink on the menu, which matters at a restaurant people sit in for a long time at odd hours.
The grilled biscuit and gravy at $2.65 to $3.50 is the cheapest hot food that counts as a meal. Plain hashbrowns at $3.25 to $3.75 are close behind. For a proper breakfast, the Two Egg Breakfast at around $7 gives you eggs, hashbrowns and toast, which is the All-Star without the waffle and meat for roughly five dollars less.
Price disclaimer. USA Food Menu is an independent reference site and is not affiliated with Waffle House Inc. Waffle House does not publish a single national price list and prices are set by market, so every figure on this page is shown as a range and checked across several states in 2026. Figures reflect in restaurant ordering rather than delivery pricing. Menu items, hashbrown toppings and dessert options vary slightly by region, so confirm with your restaurant before going.
