--- title: McDonald's Testing Chicken McGriddles for Breakfast Menu description: It's a fried chicken sandwich on maple syrup-infused pancake buns canonical: https://time.com/4229179/mcdonalds-testing-chicken-mcgriddles/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-18T17:33:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:14.410Z og:title: McDonald's Is Testing a Chicken-and-Pancakes Sandwich og:description: It's called the Chicken McGriddle og:url: https://time.com/4229179/mcdonalds-testing-chicken-mcgriddles/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: McDonald's Is Testing a Chicken-and-Pancakes Sandwich twitter:description: It's called the Chicken McGriddle twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # McDonald's Is Testing a Chicken-and-Pancakes Sandwich by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 18, 2016 5:33 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 18, 2016 5:33 PM UTC Good news, breakfast lovers: McDonald’s is testing a new item that could potentially land on the franchise’s [all-day breakfast ](http://time.com/4192469/mcdonalds-earnings-all-day-breakfast-mcd/)menu. Eleven McDonald’s locations in central Ohio are experimenting with the Chicken McGriddle, _Columbus Business First_ [reports](http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2016/02/17/mcdonalds-testing-chicken-and-pancake-sandwich-in.html). It involves a fried chicken patty sandwiched between two maple syrup-infused pancake buns: > [](https://twitter.com/comeback%5Fsports/status/700294717947260928) The chain has experimented with similar products, but this specific sandwich is the brainchild of Brian Mortellaro, who owns eight McDonald’s in Ohio. “It’s a chicken-and-waffles taste,” Mortellaro said. “I just think that’s something that isn’t out there right now.” Apparently the Chicken McGriddle has been on the McDonald’s “secret menu” for a while, and has been a big hit: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4229179/mcdonalds-testing-chicken-mcgriddles/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4229179/mcdonalds-testing-chicken-mcgriddles/"},"headline":"McDonald's Is Testing a Chicken-and-Pancakes Sandwich","datePublished":"2016-02-18T17:33:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:14.410Z","description":"It's called the Chicken McGriddle","url":"https://time.com/4229179/mcdonalds-testing-chicken-mcgriddles/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4229179/mcdonalds-testing-chicken-mcgriddles/","name":"McDonald's Is Testing a Chicken-and-Pancakes Sandwich"}}]}] ```