Arby’s Breakfast Menu, Hours, and Copycat Recipes to Make at Home

Arby’s breakfast is a small morning menu of egg and cheese sandwiches on biscuits, croissants, sourdough, and wraps, plus potato cakes and French toast sticks. It runs at select locations only, usually from 6:00 to 10:30 a.m., and the copycat recipes below rebuild the best items at home in about 25 minutes.

Most fast food chains treat breakfast as a given. Arby’s treats it as a maybe. Some locations open early with a full breakfast menu, while the Arby’s down the road opens at 10:00 a.m. and goes straight to roast beef.

That split is the whole story of Arby’s breakfast, and it catches people out every morning. This guide covers what the menu includes, the hours to expect, how to check your store before you drive there, and copycat recipes for the items worth making at home. Prices are left out on purpose, because Arby’s is mostly franchised and breakfast prices change from one store to the next.

Does Every Arby’s Serve Breakfast?

No. Breakfast is a franchise decision, not a chain-wide menu. Arby’s has more than 3,400 restaurants, but only some of them serve breakfast. The rest open later in the morning and start with the regular lunch menu.

Arby’s own nutrition guide still lists a full breakfast section, and it carries a warning that menu items may not be available at all Arby’s restaurants. That is as close as the chain gets to an official statement. The menu exists, but your store decides whether to serve it.

Where Breakfast Shows Up

The pattern is easy to spot once you know it. Breakfast shows up most often in the Midwest and South, at highway and travel plaza locations, and at stores that open early for commuters.

A suburban Arby’s that opens at 10:00 or 10:30 a.m. almost certainly skips breakfast. A store that opens at 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. is the one to check.

How to Check Your Store

The fastest way to know is to check your store, not the chain. Open the Arby’s app or the store finder, pick your location, and look for a breakfast menu during morning hours.

If the store opens late, save yourself the trip. A quick call works too, and it is the only way to confirm the exact cutoff time that day.

Arby’s Breakfast Hours

At participating locations, Arby’s breakfast usually runs from opening time until 10:30 a.m. on weekdays. Most stores open at 6:00 or 7:00 a.m., so the window is roughly 6:00 to 10:30 a.m.

How Late Does Breakfast Run?

Some stores keep breakfast going until 11:00 a.m. on weekends. There is no all-day breakfast at Arby’s. Once the cutoff passes, the kitchen switches to the regular menu, and the biscuits and wraps are gone until the next morning.

Why the Hours Vary

Hours vary enough that a single time is never safe to promise. One store might stop at 10:00 a.m. while another serves until 11:00 a.m.

The opening time is the best clue. If your local Arby’s opens at 6:00 a.m., breakfast is likely on. If it opens at 10:30 a.m., it is not.

You can start on the Arby’s official menu to see what the chain lists, then use the store finder to check your location’s hours and call to confirm breakfast is served. That two-minute check beats a wasted drive.

What’s on the Arby’s Breakfast Menu

Breakfast at Arby’s is built around three breads: biscuit, croissant, and sourdough. Each one gets paired with bacon, ham, sausage, or roast beef, plus a folded egg and cheese. Wraps, French toast sticks, and potato cakes round out the menu.

Arby’s built its name on roast beef, and the breakfast menu leans on the same sandwich logic. If you enjoy building that kind of sandwich at home, these deli style copycat sandwiches are a good next project. The breakfast versions below follow the same idea, just earlier in the day.

Biscuit Sandwiches

The biscuit is the workhorse of the menu. The plain sausage biscuit is the cheapest way in, and the egg and cheese versions are the filling choice.

The biscuit lineup includes the sausage biscuit, bacon biscuit, ham biscuit, chicken biscuit, bacon egg and cheese biscuit, sausage egg and cheese biscuit, ham egg and cheese biscuit, and the sausage gravy biscuit.

Croissants and Sourdough

Croissants are the richer option. They are flaky, buttery, and toasted, and they carry the same egg and cheese fillings as the biscuits.

Sourdough is where Arby’s does something no other chain copies. The roast beef, egg, and cheese sourdough puts thin-sliced roast beef on a breakfast sandwich, and it is the one item that tastes like Arby’s rather than like any other fast food breakfast.

Wraps, Sides, and Drinks

The breakfast wraps pack egg, a crispy potato cake, and melted cheese into a warm flour tortilla, with bacon, ham, or sausage. They are the easiest item to eat while driving, which is probably why they survive on a menu that keeps shrinking.

French toast sticks come with syrup and work as a sweet side or a shareable extra for kids. Potato cakes are the signature side, crisp hash brown patties sold in portions of two, three, or four. Coffee and orange juice cover drinks.

Calories below come from Arby’s Nutrition and Allergen Information (U.S.), January 2026 version, as reported in current menu guides. They are approximate, and they vary slightly as suppliers and recipes change.

Item	Calories
Sausage Biscuit	500
Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit	470
Sausage, Egg and Cheese Biscuit	630
Bacon, Egg and Cheese Croissant	430
French Toast Sticks	590
Potato Cakes (2 pc)	250

Potato Cakes Are Back on the Menu

Potato cakes are the most talked-about item on the Arby’s breakfast menu, and not because of how they taste. Arby’s cut them in March 2021 during a menu simplification, and customers revolted. Tens of thousands of people complained, and the outcry kept going for years.

Arby’s brought potato cakes back in February 2025, and this time the chain put its money behind the promise. According to The Takeout, Arby’s filed a pre-class action lawsuit against itself, promising the potato cakes will stay on the menu until at least December 31, 2026, or the chain pays out one million dollars in food to the people who signed on.

At many stores, potato cakes are now an all-day side, not just a breakfast item. That matters for the copycat recipe below.

Copycat Arby’s Breakfast Recipes

None of the big menu guides give you recipes. They list items and prices and stop there. That is the gap this section fills. These four copycats rebuild the breakfast items people actually order, with ordinary ingredients and no special equipment.

The bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit is the one to make first, and it comes together in about 25 minutes.

Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit

This is the copycat to make first. A warm buttermilk biscuit, a fried egg, melted cheddar, and crisp bacon. The trick is the order: cook the bacon first, fry the eggs in the same pan, and assemble while the biscuit is still warm so the cheese melts on contact.

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total time: 25 minutes
Serves: 4 sandwiches

Ingredients

• 4 large buttermilk biscuits, bakery bought or from refrigerated dough
• 8 slices bacon
• 4 large eggs
• 4 slices cheddar cheese
• 1 tablespoon butter
• Salt and black pepper

Steps

1. Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crisp, about 6 to 8 minutes. Move it to a paper towel lined plate and leave the drippings in the pan.
2. Melt the butter in the same skillet. Crack in the eggs and fry them until the whites are set and the yolks are as firm as you like, about 3 minutes.
3. Split the warm biscuits in half. Lay a slice of cheddar on the bottom half so it starts to melt.
4. Top each biscuit with a fried egg and two slices of bacon. Season with salt and pepper, close the biscuit, and serve right away.

Swap the bacon for sausage patties or sliced ham and the sandwich still works, because the biscuit, egg, and cheese do most of the talking.

Sausage Gravy Biscuit

The sausage gravy biscuit is the messiest item on the menu and the easiest to get right at home. It is just a split biscuit under a ladle of peppery sausage gravy, and the whole thing takes one pan.

Brown half a pound of breakfast sausage in a skillet, breaking it into small crumbles. Sprinkle in two tablespoons of flour and stir for a minute so the raw taste cooks out. Pour in one and a quarter cups of whole milk a little at a time, stirring until the gravy thickens, about 4 minutes. Season hard with black pepper and a pinch of salt.

Split two warm biscuits open faced on a plate and spoon the gravy over the top. The gravy should coat the biscuit, not drown it. If it gets too thick, loosen it with a splash of milk.

Crispy Potato Cakes

Potato cakes are shredded potato patties, pressed flat and fried until the outside shatters and the inside stays soft. The difference between a potato cake and a hash brown is the shape: the cake holds together as one crisp patty you can pick up.

Grate two large russet potatoes and squeeze them dry in a clean kitchen towel. Dry potatoes are the whole secret, because wet shreds steam instead of crisping. Mix the shreds with one beaten egg, two tablespoons of flour, half a teaspoon of salt, and a quarter teaspoon of black pepper.

Shape the mix into four flat patties, about half an inch thick. Fry them in a quarter inch of hot oil over medium heat, about 4 minutes per side, until deep golden. Drain on a wire rack, not paper towels, so the bottoms stay crisp. Salt them while they are hot. Chilling the patties for 10 minutes before frying helps them hold their shape.

Egg and Cheese Wrap

The wrap is the fastest copycat here, and it is the one to make on a weekday. Scramble two eggs soft over low heat and pull them off while they still look a little wet.

Warm a large flour tortilla in a dry skillet for 30 seconds per side. Lay a crumbled potato cake or a few spoonfuls of shredded hash browns down the center, add the eggs, and top with a handful of shredded cheddar and two slices of cooked bacon, ham, or sausage.

Fold in the sides, roll it up tight, and set it seam side down in the hot skillet for a minute so it seals.

Make Ahead and Reheating

Arby’s breakfast is a morning menu, but the copycats are easy to make ahead. The biscuits and the fillings keep on different schedules, and keeping them apart is what makes reheating work.

Biscuits and Bacon

Bake a batch of biscuits and freeze them once they are cool. Wrap each one in foil, then bag them together, and they keep for up to a month.

Cooked bacon keeps in the fridge for 4 days in a sealed container.

Reheating

Assemble cold sandwiches the night before, wrap them in foil, and bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes in the morning. The foil keeps the biscuit from drying out while the cheese melts.

Reheat potato cakes in a hot skillet or an air fryer, never the microwave. Two minutes per side in a dry skillet brings the crunch back.

Soggy Biscuits and Other Fixes

Soggy Biscuits

A soggy biscuit ruins the sandwich, and it is the most common thing that goes wrong. The fix is simple: bake the biscuits until the tops are properly golden, not pale, and let them cool for 5 minutes before you split them. Steam trapped inside a hot biscuit is what turns the crumb gummy.

Assemble the sandwich just before eating. A biscuit that sits assembled for 20 minutes will soften no matter how well you baked it.

Eggs and Gravy

Eggs turn rubbery when the heat is too high. Cook them over medium-low heat and pull them off while the yolks still look a touch underdone. They finish on the plate, and the cheese melts from the heat of the egg.

Gravy that turns gluey usually has too much flour or sat too long. Stir in milk a tablespoon at a time until it loosens. Gravy that will not thicken needs another minute on the heat, not more flour.

What to Serve With It

A copycat Arby’s breakfast is a full plate on its own, but a few sides turn it into a weekend spread. Coffee is the obvious partner, and orange juice works for anyone skipping coffee.

For mornings when a sandwich feels like too much, quick breakfast favorites like fluffy pancakes are the easier call. For a chicken fix later in the day, these drive thru style chicken recipes cover the same craving without the morning rush.

And if the heavy breakfast leaves you wanting something lighter at lunch, fast casual copycat bowls keep the restaurant feel with less bread.

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