10 Wendy's Breakfast Sandwich Upgrades That Are Worth Ordering

If you're a fan of Wendy's breakfast or are looking for something more interesting in the chain's morning lineup, it's high time you learned how to upgrade Wendy's breakfast sandwiches. Not only can you mix and match ingredients from other sandwiches, but you can also borrow a few ingredients from the non-breakfast menu to improve your order. Some locations even have a breakfast condiment available that's not on the menu.

The sandwich upgrades we've found for you are ones that you won't find on the digital menu. These ingredient swaps and add-ons are unconventional. So you'll generally have to ask for them in person when ordering or picking up your food. In some cases, you may need to purchase an extra menu item to make the upgrade happen. In other cases, you might be able to get an ingredient added or substituted for a small fee or no additional charge. The key is to look at all the available ingredients and imagine what's possible. Then, use a little creativity to start experimenting with what you might enjoy. You're sure to find some good options for your next morning order with these 10 Wendy's breakfast sandwich upgrade ideas.

One fast food breakfast sandwich hack you'll wish you knew about sooner is adding honey butter to your Wendy's breakfast sandwiches. You can already get maple honey butter spread with your buttermilk biscuit, honey butter chicken biscuit, and maple bacon chicken croissant. However, it's also good on sandwiches, adding a delicious hint of sweetness. If you like McDonald's maple-flavored McGriddle sandwiches, this hack is certainly worth a try.

Maple honey butter goes especially well with croissant sandwiches, like the bacon, egg, and Swiss croissant. When our writer, Carmen Varner, tried and ranked eight Wendy's breakfast sandwiches, she ranked this sandwich the lowest. However, one Redditor said they discovered that ordering it with maple honey butter and American cheese instead of the cheese sauce that normally comes on it makes it much better. In fact, it could become your new favorite order.

The maple honey butter is good on other sandwiches, too. One person on Reddit who tried it on a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit said it was a free upgrade for them. While it's not currently on the menu, customers have also enjoyed getting honey butter on their English muffin breakfast sandwiches as well.

We're not sure why classic breakfast sandwiches don't contain any vegetables, but Wendy's breakfast sandwiches can be even better if you add a few. The same veggies that you can get on Wendy's hamburgers — tomatoes, pickles, lettuce, and onions — are fair game for breakfast. In fact, Wendy's added veggies to its breakfast menu in Canada in 2023 with an egg BLT, and other countries have followed suit.

An Egg BLT pairs the crunch of bacon with the fresh flavors of lettuce and tomato, along with egg and cheese on a croissant. Those who've tried it say it's one of the best Wendy's breakfast sandwiches they've had. So, if you want to experiment with adding vegetables to a breakfast sandwich, the bacon, egg, and Swiss croissant is probably a good place to start. All you'd need to do to recreate the Egg BLT is order the bacon, egg and Swiss croissant with sliced cheese instead of Swiss cheese sauce, then add tomato and lettuce.

There are other options for adding veggies to your breakfast sandwich, too. We also saw someone on Reddit mention getting the Breakfast Baconator with tomato and onions. We also want to make a case for adding pickles to your breakfast sandwich. Pickle lovers who try it may never order their breakfast sandwiches without pickles again. We like them on any breakfast sandwich with sausage, but we've seen others add them to chicken breakfast biscuits, too.

If you've ever had a dry breakfast sandwich at Wendy's, gravy might be the solution you need for adding a little moisture, especially if the sandwich doesn't already come with Swiss cheese sauce. The first place we encountered this great idea was when Hardee's offered a country fried steak 'n' gravy biscuit back in 2010. So if you're looking for a way to add more moisture and flavor to your Wendy's breakfast sandwich, we suggest borrowing some of the sausage gravy the chain offers for its biscuits and adding it to your sandwich.

There are a few ways to get gravy on your breakfast sandwich at Wendy's. We've had success at some fast food restaurants just asking for a breakfast sandwich with gravy added. If that seems to befuddle the person taking your order, try to order a side of gravy and add the gravy yourself. However, since it's not a separately listed menu item, you may have to order a sausage gravy & biscuits to get the gravy.

There are a couple of ways to use the gravy. We've seen people on social media dipping their breakfast sandwich into a container of gravy, but using it like a condiment is less messy, especially if you're trying to drive and eat at the same time. Although we have to admit that dunking sounds kind of fun, like a breakfast version of the French dip sandwich.

One of several Wendy's breakfast hacks that you'll wish you'd tried sooner is adding seasoned potatoes to your breakfast sandwich. Other fast food restaurants have offered potatoes in their breakfast sandwiches, including the Whataburger Breakfast Burger and McDonald's Hash Brown McMuffin. So next time you order a breakfast sandwich combo, sneak a few seasoned potatoes into your sandwich and see what you think. Since the potatoes are crispy and have a nice crunch, they add an interesting texture as well as extra seasoning and flavor to your sandwich.

One Wendy's breakfast sandwich that customers on social media seem to enjoy adding seasoned potatoes to is the Breakfast Baconator. The Breakfast Baconator is already impressive on its own, but the potatoes add a little something extra that takes it to the next level.

While potatoes are especially good on the Breakfast Baconator, there's no reason you can't try them on other breakfast sandwiches as well. We've seen customers on TikTok say that the potatoes work nicely on the biscuit-style breakfast sandwiches. Seasoned potatoes are also likely to work well on croissant-based sandwiches, as we've seen people on social media add hash browns to breakfast croissant sandwiches from places like Burger King.

If you're a person who likes a hint of sweetness with your savory breakfast items, you might want to entertain the idea of adding jelly to your Wendy's breakfast sandwich. It's worth asking for a jelly packet when ordering in person or picking up a digital order, even if you don't see it on the menu.

It's not uncommon to get a jelly packet with McMuffins and biscuit breakfast sandwiches at McDonald's. So, why not Wendy's? Some customers on Reddit have mentioned automatically getting grape jelly on the side with their Wendy's breakfast sandwich without even asking for it. Given the long-standing Southern trend of putting grape jelly on sausage biscuits, we're not surprised to see customers on Facebook saying that it goes well with Wendy's sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits. We also saw someone in Canada getting strawberry jam to add to their sausage, egg, and Swiss croissant. While it's entirely possible that jelly is a regional offering or that the flavors available might be regional, it certainly can't hurt to ask. We also found a fun hack: If you don't get any cutlery with your order, you can use a seasoned potato to spread the jelly on your sandwich.

We've mentioned a few condiments you can add to your Wendy's breakfast sandwich, like jelly and gravy. However, Wendy's already has a unique sauce that it adds to many of its breakfast sandwiches: its Swiss cheese sauce. This creamy, cheesy sauce works well with breakfast sandwich ingredients, adding both flavor and moisture. Some people love it so much that it's become a popular Wendy's ordering hack to add it to hamburgers. It's even transcended the restaurant realm, with people online publishing copycat recipes to make it at home. So, you know it's a good sauce to try if you haven't already.

You'll already find the Swiss cheese sauce on several menu items, like the sausage, egg, and Swiss croissant; the bacon, egg, and Swiss croissant; and the Breakfast Baconator. Given how much customers enjoy it, you probably won't be surprised that people order it on breakfast sandwiches that don't come with it, like plain sausage biscuits or sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits.If you find biscuit sandwiches too dry on their own, this might be exactly what you need to take them to the next level, improve the mouthfeel, and add more cheesy goodness if gravy doesn't seem like the answer for you.

Something you may never have realized you can do with your Wendy's breakfast order is ask for a hamburger bun instead of the bread your Wendy's breakfast sandwich comes with. The Breakfast Baconator already comes with a hamburger bun, and it has dominated the breakfast menu since it launched in 2020, proving how well a hamburger bun works in a breakfast sandwich. Swapping your croissant or biscuit for a hamburger bun is a good option if you're concerned about the fat content of your Wendy's breakfast sandwich, prefer hamburger buns, or just want to try something new.

If you've ever gotten breakfast at Jack in the Box, you've probably noticed that the chain offers a hamburger bun option for nearly every type of breakfast sandwich it makes except for its chicken sandwiches. Jack in the Box customers on social media say they find this option to be delicious. So using a hamburger bun for a breakfast sandwich isn't that unusual in the fast food world. Breakfast Baconators use a hamburger bun and include nearly every main ingredient you might get in a Wendy's breakfast sandwich except chicken, showing how well classic breakfast ingredients and Swiss cheese sauce work on a hamburger bun.

Just like you can switch out a hamburger bun for the bread in Wendy's breakfast sandwiches, you can also get rid of the hamburger bun on your Breakfast Baconator. The chain kept the bun from its Baconator burger when turning the Baconator into a breakfast sandwich. Whether a hamburger bun belongs on a breakfast sandwich in the first place is up for debate, and if you don't like the idea, you can still get a Breakfast Baconator with a croissant or biscuit instead.

According to Redditors who have tried switching out the bun for a different bread choice, there wasn't even an upcharge for getting a different type of bread. Substituting a croissant for the bun seems to be the most common choice, and customers seem to think it makes the sandwich taste far better. There are plenty of customers who like it on a biscuit as well. Granted, the nutritional macros are going to change a lot. The Breakfast Baconator already comes in at 704 calories with 44 grams of fat. Given the buttery nature of croissants and biscuits, you should expect the calorie and fat content to increase if you substitute one of them, which may be part of the reason the sandwich doesn't come with either in the first place. However, it still promises yumminess.

The Breakfast Baconator already comes with every other protein on the Wendy's breakfast menu. So why not add chicken, too? Getting a Breakfast Baconator with chicken isn't something you can do with a digital order, but you may be able to request a chicken patty with an in-person order.

We've seen several people on social media order a Breakfast Baconator with a chicken patty. One Reddit customer who wanted to add chicken to their Breakfast Baconator bought a honey buddy chicken biscuit and slipped the patty into the sandwich. Granted, you may want to order the biscuit without honey butter or with honey butter on the side to avoid a flavor clash. Even better, just ask for a chicken patty in your Breakfast Baconator and avoid the honey butter issue altogether.

If three meats seem like too much and you really just want chicken and bacon without sausage, that might be an option as well. We've seen people on social media successfully replace the hamburger patty with chicken in the classic Baconator. So it seems logical that you could likewise replace the sausage with chicken in the Breakfast Baconator. This also seems like the option least likely to incur an upcharge since you're swapping out one meat for another.

One final way to upgrade your Wendy's breakfast sandwich is to order a Breakfast Baconator with a hamburger patty instead of sausage. This might be a good option to try if you're not a big sausage fan or just aren't in the mood for something spicy. Plus, it adds one more breakfast sandwich flavor combination to try.

The Breakfast Baconator isn't too different from the Baconator cheeseburger. It kept the bun, American cheese, and applewood-smoked bacon. Then it switched out the burger for a sausage patty, switched out the condiments for Swiss cheese sauce, and added an egg. If you request to swap the sausage patty for a burger, you're still getting a unique sandwich that's firmly in breakfast territory thanks to the egg and Wendy's Swiss cheese sauce.

A few people on social media have tried ordering a Breakfast Baconator with a hamburger patty instead of sausage with no problem. However, they've been careful to order it during the brief window right before breakfast ends and lunch begins. Being able to get it likely depends on whether the burger grill is on yet or not, according to some Reddit users. If it's not, you may have to wait as long as 20 minutes for this order. So you may not want to order this on a whim if you're already in a hurry.