9 Wendy's Breakfast Sandwiches, Ranked Worst To Best

Across the vast American landscape, tales are told of some of the strange creatures of legend. From Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox to the Sasquatch and the Mothman, sightings of these urban myths are few and far between. But perhaps the most persistent and unbelievable legend of all, only shared in whispers by true believers, is the tale of the most elusive creature of all: the Wendy's breakfast menu.

Okay, it's not really a creature, but it is real despite all the evidence. The untold truth of Wendy's breakfast is that the chain has launched a breakfast menu multiple times over the decades, only to eventually cancel it and give up before eventually trying again. The latest iteration was launched in 2020, and while some people still may not even know that Wendy's has a breakfast menu after the chain quietly shuttered it at many locations in February 2026, this fast food unicorn can still be found at participating locations.

So is it worth the effort to track down a Wendy's location that still serves breakfast? In order to answer that question, we loaded up a vanful of Wendy's breakfast sandwiches and ate them all. Our goal: Rank the Wendy's breakfast sandwich options from worst to best to find out which among them are truly legendary after all. Now if only they offered a biscuit, egg, cheese, and Babe the Blue Ox sausage sandwich ...

I want to be up front and say at the top that none of the Wendy's breakfast sandwiches were bad. All of them were, at the bare minimum, totally acceptable breakfast sandwiches. That being said, as with most things in life, there have to be winners and losers. And the loser of this particular breakfast sandwich challenge was the Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit.

Wendy's biscuits, it should be said, are better than they have any right to be. They are pretty good biscuits: not too hard, as some biscuits can get, and also not too dry. But perhaps surprisingly given the inclusion of both eggs and cheese, this breakfast sandwich did end up eating a little bit too dry. It also was very biscuit forward. The flavors of the cheese and egg were both so mild as to be overwhelmed by the ample amount of biscuit. By the end of each bite, the only thing remaining was the taste and feel of a large clump of biscuit in my mouth.

Whither bacon, you ask? Great question. As proved to be the case across the board with all the Wendy's breakfast sandwiches that included bacon, there just wasn't enough of it. When I did luck into a bite that included bacon it had a nice crunch that provided some textural relief from the biscuit. That was too rare, though. The main effect of the bacon was to help make the sandwich just a level too salty. Unfortunate.

The Wendy's Sausage Biscuit is as simple as the name implies. It's a single sausage patty on a biscuit, the end. So you might expect it to be boring and plain. But in actuality, the Wendy's Sausage Biscuit is surprisingly nuanced for such a simple sandwich.

First, the biscuit's nice — not too hard and not too dry. And the sausage patty was a pleasant surprise as well. It was thicker than I expected, and quite well seasoned. The spiciness of the sausage cut through the doughiness of the biscuit, lingering in the back of my throat for a while after the sandwich was done. The sausage patty also was moist, so despite having no other toppings or condiments on it, the Sausage Biscuit didn't eat too dry.

Still, it did eat a little dry. Though it didn't come with any condiments, it would have benefited from the addition of some kind of sauce, both for extra flavor and extra moisture. In the name of science, I only ate the sandwiches exactly as presented to me by Wendy's, but if you get one I suggest a dollop of your favorite condiment to raise the level of this otherwise perfectly average but overly basic sandwich.

It was a surprise to me to discover that I enjoyed the Egg and Cheese Biscuit more than the Bacon, Egg and Cheese biscuit. Conventional wisdom holds that bacon improves everything, particularly breakfast. But in this case, I found that the removal of the bacon actually improved the sandwich as it didn't add much other than an overwhelming saltiness.

Freed from its bacon prison, Wendy's Egg and Cheese Biscuit allowed both the egg and the biscuit to shine more. My first impression when biting into this sandwich was the egg itself. It had a nice fluffy texture that was a bit spongy, and the egg flavor, while still quite mild, clearly came through in a way that it couldn't when overshadowed by more powerful flavor notes.

That egg flavor mixed nicely with the pleasant biscuit flavor for a fairly well-balanced bite. I say fairly because, while present, the cheese remained a disappointingly vague background note that never really shone through. Perhaps as a result of this, the further I got into the sandwich, the more it became a biscuit experience. By the end of the sandwich I felt as though my mouth was just filled with a massive wedge of biscuit, and while it's a good biscuit, some relief would have been appreciated. Your enjoyment of this sandwich will be directly proportional to how much you like eating biscuits.

Sausage versus bacon. It's a conundrum as old as meat itself. Which you prefer will generally depend on what you want out of your meat eating experience, but generally speaking, I like well-cooked bacon as part of my breakfast experience to give a crunchy textural element that sausage can't usually provide.

But Wendy's Sausage, Egg and Cheese Biscuit is an exception. Where the scant bacon was barely noticeable in the Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit, the sausage here shines as the star of the show. The parry, which is of a decent size, is well spiced, giving the sandwich a zing of flavor that cuts through everything else. That's a welcome relief from the ample supply of biscuit, and provides a robust counterpoint to the mild egg flavor.

If anything remains a disappointment with the Sausage, Egg and Cheese Biscuit, it's the cheese. Already a background afterthought in the other biscuit sandwiches, the cheese here is just overwhelmed by stronger and more prominent flavors. More cheese, or sharper cheese, would not only add a nice complementary flavor, but a welcome unctuousness that could elevate this sandwich to another level. As it is, it's the best of the biscuit batch, but still ends up as just a pleasant, average breakfast option.

Ever since its debut back in 2007, the Baconator has been one of Wendy's most popular and iconic menu options. So a Breakfast Baconator seems like an absolute slam dunk, especially given that bacon is widely associated with breakfast to begin with. Indeed, when we ranked the entire Wendy's breakfast menu back in 2022, the Breakfast Baconator came in near the top of the chart. So what's changed between then and now?

Well, it's all about the bacon. And the Wendy's Baconator that I ate seemed to have almost no bacon on it. This is a function of how much larger the Breakfast Baconator is compared to Wendy's other breakfast sandwiches; with a larger bun and a stack of more and thicker ingredients, you simply need a lot of bacon. Instead, I barely noticed the bacon at all. Everything else about the sandwich was good. The bun, while large, was fluffy and fresh, with a light toast that gave it just the barest hint of crunch for a nice textural twist. The sausage patty, which replaces the burger patty found in a regular Baconator, was well seasoned, and the two kinds of cheese — a slice of American and a Swiss cheese sauce — gave the sandwich a nice richness.

But where's the bacon? Wendy's advertises two layers of bacon, but I had to search the sandwich to find any. Sampled on its own, it's good bacon. But something called the Baconator needs more bacon in order to truly earn its name.

Now we're getting down to brass tacks. Wendy's isn't playing around when it comes to breakfast. It means business, which is proven by the Sausage, Egg & Swiss Croissant. Using a croissant as the bread element of a breakfast sandwich feels as if Wendy's gave McDonald's McGriddle the sideeye and decided to bring out the big guns in response. Consider shots fired.

It's clear from the first bite what the Wendy's croissant brings to the breakfast table compared to your standard biscuit. The croissant I had was moist, sweet, and flaky, delivering on everything you want — flavor, texture, and mouthfeel. That sweetness made the croissant a perfect balance to the spiciness of the sausage patty, which had a pleasant sting in the tail that cut through the richness of the croissant.

If there's a complaint to be made it's that the sausage aftertaste lingered a little too long. The strength of flavors between the croissant and the sausage, while yummy, also overshadowed the egg, which ended up being almost completely lost. Even the textural element of the egg, which can be useful in some breakfast sandwiches, was overshadowed by the moist softness of the croissant itself. Additionally, while the Swiss cheese flavor of the Swiss cheese sauce was nice, the sandwich likely would have been better served with a slice of real Swiss cheese. Still, these were fairly minor complaints for a very good breakfast sandwich.

It's simple, it's elegant, it's delicious: It's Wendy's Honey Buddy Chicken Biscuit. Wendy's takes a breaded chicken cutlet, coats it with a maple honey butter, and plops it inside a fresh buttermilk biscuit. That's it. But while it might sound a little bit too simple, in this case it's all about the execution — and Wendy's nails it.

The key here is in the coating of maple honey butter. Liberally applied, as it was on the Honey Buddy Chicken Biscuit I sampled, it takes what could have been a dry bite into the realm of perfection. Not only is the sweet maple taste a wonderful contrast to the light spices in the chicken breading, it also gives a much needed moistness to the biscuit without it becoming soppy or oversaturated. Each bite of mine was well balanced, leaving me wanting more.

And each of the flavors came through clearly. The biscuit was tasty if slightly underrepresented, the maple butter was divine, and the chicken itself also had a distinct seasoned flavor that rose to the top at the end of each bite like a little bit of delayed gratification. This flavor balance also acted as a tease; with chicken the final note, it asked you to go back for more to get that maple sweetness. The crunch of the breading, meanwhile, also provided a nice contrast to the soft, flaky biscuit.

Sometimes, life throws you a curveball. And sometimes, you hit that curveball out of the park. That's what happened when I ordered Wendy's Bacon, Egg and Swiss Croissant. Going into this grand experiment, I decided I would eat the sandwiches exactly as delivered, with no alternations, in order to ensure the most pure Wendy's breakfast sandwich experiment. So imagine my surprise when I bit into my Bacon, Egg and Swiss Croissant and discovered that it randomly also had a sausage patty in it.

Sausage is not supposed to be one of the ingredients. But there it was, along with the bacon, egg, and Swiss cheese sauce, all inside a moist and tasty croissant. The result was that the sandwich was unexpectedly turned into a mini Breakfast Baconator, but with a croissant instead of a burger bun.

The mix of flavors and textures was excellent. Sweet, moist croissant, crunchy, salty bacon, hot, spicy sausage, and the Swiss cheese flavoring from the sauce all came together for a top notch bite. Is this a fair representation of what a Bacon, Egg and Swiss Croissant is? All I can say is that it's what they gave me when I ordered one — and maybe they'll give it to you, too.

This is it, the undisputed pinnacle of Wendy's breakfast sandwiches. You'll have to walk a long mile to find a fast food breakfast sandwich that can top the Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant. This perfectly balanced sandwich combines all the best aspects of the Honey Buddy Chicken Biscuit with the Bacon, Egg and Swiss Croissant. It's got the sweet maple honey butter and the savory chicken while also adding in the salty crunch of bacon and the flaky goodness of a croissant.

Each of those different flavor notes comes through distinctly, and each textural element shines, making every bite a full experience. The lingering note at the end of the meal is a bit sweet rather than spicy, which I found to be a pleasant way to wrap up my morning meal. The Maple Bacon Chicken Croissant feels like the culmination of the entire Wendy's breakfast menu, taking the best elements of each of the other sandwich options and combining them in a way that elevates the individual ingredients. Order this one and you won't be disappointed.

So are the Wendy's breakfast sandwich options worth tracking down? The answer is a qualified yes. I recently had a chance to also rank all the McDonald's breakfast sandwiches from worst to best, and while none of the Wendy's offerings (even the yummy croissants) quite rose to the heights of the best scrumptious McGriddle, the average level of the Wendy's breakfast sandwich was generally higher. The Wendy's biscuits in particular were a clear step above their McDonald's equivalent, and the Wendy's sausage patties were both thicker and more flavorful.

Still, taste is subjective. Two down notes stand out about the Wendy's breakfast sandwiches. The first and most obvious was the disappointing amount of bacon used in the bacon sandwiches. The Breakfast Baconator, which has a full-sized burger bun, was the most glaring culprit, reminding me of the classic Wendy's "Home of the Big Bun" ad campaign from the 1980s.

There's also the question of the controversial "Swiss Cheese Sauce" replacing actual Swiss cheese in the Swiss cheese sandwiches. While I would have preferred real Swiss cheese, it didn't bother me, as the flavor was fine and it added more moisture. Swiss cheese purists, however, may feel differently about the entire Wendy's menu as a result.

In some ways the hardest part of setting up this taste test was finding a Wendy's that was still serving breakfast. Once I did that, though, I simply ordered one of each of the nine breakfast sandwiches on that location's breakfast menu; having them all made fresh at the same time and at the same location by the same cooks helped ensure a level playing field.

Once I had the sandwiches, I sampled each of them while they were still hot to make sure I was experiencing them as intended. Likewise, I didn't add anything to any of the sandwiches, eating each as they were directly from the Wendy's kitchen; no outside condiments or seasonings that may have altered the experience, even when the sandwich ultimately would have benefited. 

I then took detailed notes on each sandwich, scoring them on taste, texture, and mouthfeel, which includes dryness. I also factored in nutritional information when relevant to create a fully rounded picture of each sandwich. These subscores were then tallied up, resulting in a final overall score that determined each sandwich's final ranking.