7 Hardee’s Biscuit Orders North Carolinians Grew Up On
Hardee’s opened its very first restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, in 1960.
A lot of North Carolinians have a biscuit order they’ve been getting since they were kids.
Here are the Hardee’s biscuit orders North Carolinians grew up on.
1. Country Ham Biscuit
A slice of country ham on a biscuit is the Hardee’s Country Ham Biscuit, which comes in at 410 calories.
You’ll find it under Made from Scratch Biscuits on Hardee’s online menu, a category with 16 items as of October 2026.
A Country Ham Biscuit Combo also appears on the breakfast combos list, and Hardee’s says featured products are available at participating locations only.
2. Biscuit ‘N’ Gravy
Sausage gravy goes over a Made from Scratch biscuit in Hardee’s Biscuit ‘N’ Gravy, and the menu puts it at 500 calories.
You can order the Double Biscuit ‘N’ Gravy instead, which comes in at 1,000 calories.
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3. Bacon Egg & Cheese Biscuit
The Bacon Egg & Cheese Biscuit puts cherrywood smoked bacon, an egg and American cheese on a biscuit.
It comes in at 530 calories. Want more bacon? The Super Bacon Biscuit, a separate item in the same category, is 650.
4. Hand-Breaded Chicken Biscuit
The Hand-Breaded Chicken Biscuit has 610 calories. Want some heat? The Spicy Hand-Breaded Chicken Biscuit has 620.
The regular one starts with a chicken fillet that's hand-dipped in eggs and buttermilk, then slightly breaded.
5. Pork Chop 'N' Gravy Biscuit
You can get a juicy, breaded boneless pork chop smothered in sausage gravy on a biscuit, as Hardee's describes its Pork Chop 'N' Gravy Biscuit.
It comes in at 550 calories, while the Country Fried Steak Biscuit, with a breaded steak in place of the chop, has 650.
6. Monster Biscuit
Bacon, a sausage patty, thinly sliced ham, an egg and two slices of American cheese all land on one biscuit in the Monster Biscuit.
It has 820 calories, and you can also order it as a Monster Biscuit Combo.
Hardee's Biscuit Combos by the Numbers
The combos here come with a range of calories instead of one number.
The Country Ham Biscuit Combo runs from 750 to 1,560 calories.
The Monster Biscuit Combo ranges from 1,060 up to 1,870.
7. Sausage Biscuit
Many people in North Carolina grew up on a Hardee's sausage biscuit.
Hardee's describes its Sausage Biscuit as a juicy, grilled sausage patty on a fluffy, freshly baked biscuit, and it comes in at 630 calories.
You can also pick the Super Sausage Biscuit, at 930 calories, or the Smoked Sausage Biscuit, at 600.
Where It Started
Hardee's opened its first restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, in September 1960, near what was then East Carolina College.
Wilber Hardee got the idea from a McDonald's in Greensboro and added char-grilling for more flavor than that chain's patties.
The original had no tables and no waiters, according to QSR Magazine.
A burger cost 15 cents.
The first menu listed hamburgers, cheeseburgers, milk shakes, soft drinks and fried apple pies.
The second restaurant opened in Rocky Mount.
Boddie-Noell and the Biscuit
Boddie-Noell, the franchisee based in Rocky Mount, opened its first Hardee's in Fayetteville in 1962, when the Boddie brothers' partnership paid $1,500 apiece for five franchises.
The Rocky Mount Telegram says Boddie-Noell quickly became the largest Hardee's franchisee in the country.
As of 2020, it owned 380 Hardee's restaurants across the Carolinas, Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
A biscuit ordered at a Hardee's in the Carolinas may come from a Boddie-Noell restaurant.
When Biscuits Joined the Menu
Hardee's about page dates its Made From Scratch biscuits to the 1970s, and Boddie-Noell says it introduced homemade biscuits in 1977.
The Telegram also says Boddie-Noell gets much of the credit for kicking off the fast-food breakfast biscuit boom, not only at Hardee's.
At first, Mike Boddie says, his father didn't think anyone would get up at 3 a.m. every day to make biscuits.
The Sweet Biscuit
Hardee's says it added the Cinnamon 'N' Raisin biscuit in the 1980s.
As of mid-October 2026, it's a limited-time item sold as a 1, 2 or 4-pack.
It's a sweet biscuit loaded with raisins and cinnamon and topped with a drizzle of icing.
A single biscuit comes in at 310 calories on the Sides & Sweets page.
The plain Biscuit on that page has 440 calories.
Limited-time items come and go, so you'll want to check your Hardee's first.
The Biscuit Makers
Hardee's says its biscuits are hand-made in batches by designated Biscuit Makers.
As of 2013, Boddie-Noell's Biscuit Maker Challenge had been running for 30 years, according to a company release.
That year, a Durham biscuit maker was named Boddie-Noell's best after advancing past more than 800 other biscuit makers at 334 Hardee's restaurants.
Judges scored entrants on biscuit quality, equipment knowledge, cleanliness and grooming.
Hardee's designated Biscuit Makers start their mornings at 4 a.m.
In 2012, Boddie-Noell restaurants used 10.3 million pounds of flour and biscuit mix and 830,000 gallons of buttermilk.
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