The first day of McDonald's national roll-out of its all-day breakfast is here, but before you get your hopes up, here's what you can and can't order. 
 
 The long-awaited menu for breakfast fans will vary by location. For those who love McGriddle sandwiches, you're out of luck. That item isn't a part of the all-day breakfast menu in any markets, so you'll be skipping on those 450 to 570 calories. Bagel sandwiches, cinnamon melts and "Big Breakfast" platters aren't included in the all-day menu either. 
 
 1. In most markets, you can order: 
 
 - sausage burrito 
 
 - "Fruit ‘N Yogurt" parfait 
 
 - "Fruit & Maple" oatmeal 
 
 - hash browns 
 
 - hotcakes 
 
 - hotcakes with sausage 
 
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 2. In markets that offer McMuffins, you can't get the Egg White Delight or the steak, egg and cheese McMuffin, but you can get: 
 
 - egg McMuffin 
 
 - sausage McMuffin with egg 
 
 - sausage McMuffin 
 
 3. In markets that offer biscuits, you can't order the "southern style" chicken biscuit, but you can order: 
 
 - bacon, egg and cheese biscuit 
 
 - sausage biscuit with egg 
 
 - sausage biscuit ||||| This undated product image provided by Taco Bell, shows the company's new waffle taco. The fast-food chain says the waffle taco, which includes scrambled eggs, sausage and a side of syrup, was the top... (Associated Press) 
 
 Taco Bell is readying for the launch of its national breakfast menu on March 27, with items such as the A.M. Crunchwrap designed to appeal to its fan base of younger men. And the chain says breakfast will be available until 11 a.m. — a half-hour later than McDonald's offers its Egg McMuffins. 
 
 "We can turn the breakfast conversation into a two-horse race," Taco Bell President Brian Niccol said in an interview, noting that Taco Bell intends to be a "strong No. 2" after McDonald's. 
 
 McDonald's has long been the fast-food leader in the mornings, with its popular Sausage Biscuits, Hotcakes and other items pulling in roughly 20 percent of the company's U.S. sales. But the chain has been facing stiffer competition over the years, with places such as Starbucks and Subway looking for a piece of the growing breakfast business. 
 
 On March 4, for instance, Starbucks also plans to roll out new and revamped breakfast sandwiches, including a croissant sandwich with ham, cheese and egg. 
 
 It's not clear how Taco Bell's entry into breakfast will alter the fast-food landscape. Last year, an executive with Taco Bell's parent company Yum Brands said that breakfast accounted for about 4 percent of sales in locations where it was tested. But that was before the chain put its full marketing might behind the menu, he noted. 
 
 McDonald's, which has more than 14,000 U.S. locations, has also said it plans to step up its marketing of breakfast this year as new players enter the space. Separately, the president of McDonald's USA, Jeff Stratton, also told the Associated Press that the chain is in the early stages of looking at whether it can extend its breakfast hours. 
 
 Stratton noted that cutting off breakfast on the weekends at 10:30 a.m. "doesn't go very well" with people in their 20s and 30s in particular. Still, figuring out how to serve both breakfast and lunch poses an operational challenge given the limited kitchen space in restaurants. 
 
 In the meantime, Kevin Newell, U.S. brand and strategy officer for McDonald's, seemed unfazed in an interview late last week by Taco Bell's breakfast plans. 
 
 "I think they're going to find that going into the breakfast business is not like what they're accustomed to, in terms of marketing," Newell said. The breakfast menus of the two chains only have one main offering that seems to go head-to-head, a sausage and egg burrito. 
 
 Taco Bell has been testing and tweaking its menu in a select number of its nearly 6,000 U.S. locations over the past several months. For the national rollout, the company's restaurants have had to hire additional staff, train existing staff and buy new equipment, including for the coffee it plans to start serving for the first time. 
 
 To keep operations simple at the start, Niccol said Taco Bell will start with drip coffee before expanding to specialty coffees such as lattes. 
 
 The items on Taco Bell's breakfast menu are intended to be easy to hold and eat on the go. They include: 
 
 — A.M. Crunchwrap — scrambled eggs, a hash brown, cheese and bacon, sausage or steak in a flour tortilla. 
 
 — Waffle Taco — a waffle wrapped around a sausage patty or bacon, with scrambled eggs and cheese, served with a side of syrup. 
 
 — Bacon and Egg Burrito — Bacon, scrambled eggs and cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla 
 
 —Sausage Flatbread Melt — A sausage patty topped with cheese wrapped in a flatbread and grilled. 
 
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 For the first time in five years, McDonald's announced that it will be expanding its breakfast menu. 
 
 Not only does new sandwich have three times the meat, but the chain says it was inspired by its very own "secret menu." 
 
 Many popular chains are rumored to have secret menus — and a proper etiquette on how to order from them. Starbucks kept its Medicine Ball tea a secret for some time before offering it to everyone. And for years, only the coolest cats knew you could order In-N-Out burgers "animal style." 
 
 According to the chain's announcement made late Tuesday night, McDonald's regular customers order certain items so often that the restaurant deemed these orders as part of a secret menu both corporate and on-the-floor team members knew about. One of these breakfast menu hacks became so popular that its team decided to make it an official sandwich option. Enter the Triple Breakfast Stacks. 
 
 Triple Stacks come, well, stacked on three bread options: a fluffy biscuit, a toasted McMuffin bun or a sweet McGriddle cake. Packed inside are two sausage patties, crispy bacon and an egg, plus, two slices of melted American cheese. 
 
 McDonald's new McMuffin Triple Breakfast Stack is available for a limited time Nov. 1. McDonald's 
 
 Now that's a mighty meaty breakfast. 
 
 The Triple Breakfast Stacks will be available for a limited time nationwide beginning Nov. 1. Although, once the offer ends fans can always customize their breakfast order to mimic the "secret" menu item since it's basically just a repurposed (and totally enlarged) regular breakfast sandwich. 
 
 According to a McDonald's spokesperson the nutrition info will be up on the website once the sandwich is officially launched. However, using McDonald's online nutrition calculator, a Bacon, Egg & Cheese McGriddle plus a Sausage, Egg & Cheese McGriddle weigh in at 970 calories, 50 grams of fat, 90 grams of carbohydrates, 38 grams of protein and 2,530 milligrams of sodium. 
 
 It might be a good idea to share the Triple Stack with a friend ... or two.
– The highly anticipated all-day breakfast menu at McDonald's is debuting nationwide Tuesday, but not everyone's morning favorites have made the cut, ABC News reports. Those who are jonesing for the chain's hash browns, hotcakes, fruit and yogurt parfaits, oatmeal, and sausage burritos are in luck—as are those who want a plain egg or sausage McMuffin and most egg-and-biscuit sandwiches. What aren't included: two specialty McMuffins (the Egg White Delight and the steak-egg-cheese variety), the "Southern style" chicken biscuit, bagel sandwiches, cinnamon melts, and, alas, the maple-infused concoction known as the McGriddle. And those who have a huge appetite may need to supplement their breakfast sandwich with a Big Mac as the day drifts by: "Big Breakfast" platters aren't an all-day offering, either. (There's something else you should know about McMuffins.)