Carl’s Jr. Breakfast Menu & Hours 2026: Calories & Prices

Carl’s Jr. breakfast is built for people who want a lot of food early. There’s a burger with egg and Hash Rounds on the bun, a Monster Biscuit, and a burrito that runs past 850 calories. It’s also a menu where the details people search for most, the hours and the prices, are the hardest to pin down.

This guide uses Carl’s Jr.’s own sources wherever they exist: its nutrition poster, its menu page and its individual store pages. Where Carl’s Jr. publishes nothing, as with prices, we compare third-party listings and say so.

Carl’s Jr. Breakfast Hours

Carl’s Jr. store pages state that breakfast is served until 10:30 AM, and add that hours may vary by day. There’s no published start time; breakfast begins when your restaurant opens. Both stores we checked, one in California and one in Texas, carried the same 10:30 AM cutoff.

Two things follow from that. There’s no all-day breakfast: after 10:30 AM the store switches over, so a Monster Biscuit at noon isn’t on offer. And there’s no single national start time, because a 24-hour store can begin serving breakfast far earlier than one that opens at 6.

The Full Carl’s Jr. Breakfast Menu

Carl’s Jr.’s breakfast menu has 11 main items across sandwiches, biscuits and burritos, plus Hash Rounds and French Toast Dips, and most come as a combo with Hash Rounds and a coffee. Every calorie, sodium and protein figure below comes from Carl’s Jr.’s own nutrition poster, which states its data is current as of June 24, 2025.

The Breakfast Burger and grilled cheese sandwiches

The Breakfast Burger is the item Carl’s Jr. leads with. Its own menu describes it as a charbroiled all-beef patty with crispy bacon, egg, American cheese, Hash Rounds and ketchup on a seeded bun. It has the most protein of anything on the breakfast menu.

Biscuits

Biscuit ‘N’ Gravy is the one to think twice about. It’s 500 calories with only 8 grams of protein and 1,780 mg of sodium, so it fills you up on salt and starch rather than anything that keeps you going.

Breakfast burritos

Sides and sweets

French Toast Dips are worth a second look if you thought they were the light option. Five pieces come to 620 calories and 106 grams of carbohydrate, with just 9 grams of protein.

Carl’s Jr. Breakfast Prices

Carl’s Jr. doesn’t publish breakfast prices. Its FAQ says different locations may charge different prices, and its store pages say delivery prices are higher than in the restaurant. On two menu-price sites, most single breakfast items fall between about $5 and $8.50.

One listing prices the Breakfast Burger at about $10.10 on its own and its combo at $9.49, which would make the combo cheaper than the burger without the Hash Rounds and coffee. That’s almost certainly an error, so we’ve left the Breakfast Burger out of the price table rather than repeat it.

The Best Carl’s Jr. Breakfast for Your Goal

For the most protein per calorie, the Steak & Egg Burrito wins at 33 g for 530 calories. For the lowest sodium in a real meal, the Bacon, Egg & Cheese Burrito has 760 mg, about half of most items. For the most protein outright, it’s the Breakfast Burger at 40 g. These rankings are our own arithmetic on Carl’s Jr.’s official figures.

How Much Sodium Is in Carl’s Jr. Breakfast?

A lot. Ten of the twelve breakfast items on the poster, not counting Hash Rounds, carry more than 1,200 mg of sodium, and the Monster Biscuit alone has 2,250 mg. Carl’s Jr.’s own nutrition poster notes the recommended limit of 2,300 mg a day for a typical adult.

Add a medium Hash Rounds to a Monster Biscuit and you’re at 2,650 mg, over a full day’s limit before lunch. If that matters to you, the Bacon, Egg & Cheese Burrito and French Toast Dips are the only two items under 800 mg.

Carl’s Jr. Breakfast Numbers That Don’t Add Up

Popular breakfast lists get several Carl’s Jr. figures wrong. One lists the Big Country Breakfast Burrito at 1,100 calories; Carl’s Jr. says 860. Another puts French Toast Dips at six pieces and 480 calories; Carl’s Jr. lists five pieces at 620. One even prices a combo below its own main item.

A note on that last row. An earlier version of this very guide listed the Sunrise Croissant too. When we rebuilt the page from Carl’s Jr.’s own menu and poster in November 2026, it wasn’t on either, so it’s gone from our menu tables.

Carl’s Jr. My Rewards for Breakfast

Carl’s Jr.’s loyalty program is called My Rewards. Members earn 10 Stars for every $1 spent on app or web orders, and rewards unlock at 150, 300 and 500 Stars. Stars expire 365 days after you earn them.

Honestly, the welcome offer is a lunch item, so it won’t help a breakfast-only customer much. The 10-Stars-per-dollar earning applies to breakfast orders too, though, as long as they’re placed in the app or online.

Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s and Who Runs Them

Carl’s Jr. is owned by CKE Restaurants Holdings, which also owns Hardee’s. CKE says the two brands together have more than 3,800 restaurants in 44 states and 43 other countries and territories, and Carl’s Jr. says it has more than 1,100 US restaurants of its own.

The same parent company runs Hardee’s, which has its own separate breakfast menu. Our Hardee’s breakfast menu guide covers it, and you can compare with Jack in the Box breakfast, Whataburger breakfast or Arby’s breakfast.

Carl’s Jr. Breakfast: Frequently Asked Questions

What to Know Before Your Next Carl’s Jr. Breakfast

How We Researched This Guide

Calories, sodium, protein and allergens come from Carl’s Jr.’s nutrition poster, linked from its Nutritional Info page, which states its data is current as of June 24, 2025. Item descriptions come from Carl’s Jr.’s menu page. Breakfast hours come from two Carl’s Jr. store pages. Company figures come from carlsjr.com and CKE’s own site. Prices are a comparison of two third-party sites, gathered in November 2026.

What we could not confirm: any first-party price, a national breakfast start time, and the founding history, which CKE’s own pages don’t cover. Where Carl’s Jr.’s menu page and its poster disagree, we’ve said so and explained which figure we used.

When Carl’s Jr. updates its nutrition poster or its store pages change the breakfast cutoff, this guide gets the new figures and a new date.