Chick-fil-A adds Chicken & Waffles Sandwiches nationwide on August 24, available all day, plus a S’mores Milkshake and S’mores Frosted Coffee. It’s part of the chain’s 80th-anniversary “Newstalgia” push, and it only took them about 12 years to commit.
Chick-fil-A is bringing chicken and waffles to every restaurant, a pairing it has been circling, cautiously, for more than a decade.
Starting August 24, the chain adds Chicken & Waffles Sandwiches to its nationwide menu, available all day in two sizes: a smaller version during breakfast hours, and a larger entrée version from 10:30 a.m. to close. Each one stacks a chicken filet, three strips of applewood-smoked bacon, and honey butter between two maple-flavored waffles, with syrup on the side. You can order it Original, Spicy, or Grilled.
The sandwich comes with two campfire-themed drinks along for the ride.
The full lineup
Alongside the sandwich, Chick-fil-A is leaning into s’mores.
The S’mores Milkshake blends the chain’s Icedream with marshmallow syrup, chocolate shortbread, and graham cracker crumbles, topped with marshmallow whipped cream. The S’mores Frosted Coffee uses the same marshmallow-and-graham build but folds it into cold-brew coffee and Icedream. Both are limited-time, and both were tested in Austin before this national rollout, the same way the sandwich was tested in Baltimore and San Antonio over the 2025 holidays.
It’s a tidy sweet-and-savory package: a maple-and-bacon sandwich to start, a toasted-marshmallow dessert drink to finish.
Why it took so long
Here’s the mildly funny part. Chick-fil-A has been flirting with chicken and waffles since 2014.
Back then, the chain tested a chicken-and-waffles item in four markets and never pulled the trigger nationally. It took another decade, a successful two-city test last winter, and an anniversary campaign to finally commit. Fans noticed the delay, one reaction to the test run captured the mood: “Testing?? Why does THIS need testing? Full send already!!”
The company clearly heard it. Menu director Allison Duncan said the response in test markets is what pushed the flavors nationwide.
The bigger picture
The launch fits a strategy Chick-fil-A has leaned on all year.
The whole rollout is part of “Newstalgia,” the chain’s yearlong campaign marking its 80th anniversary by reworking familiar, comforting flavors into new menu items. Chicken and waffles and s’mores are both nostalgia plays, exactly the register the campaign is going for. It’s also a competitive move: Chick-fil-A just took the top spot among quick-service restaurants in a national customer-satisfaction survey for the 11th year running, and keeping a crowded menu fresh is part of holding that lead.
For customers, the takeaway is simpler than the marketing. A comfort-food classic Chick-fil-A has teased for years is finally becoming something you can actually order, all day, starting August 24. Only took them about twelve years to get there.
Article compiled and edited by Derek Gibbs (entertainment editor) and the Clownfish TV newsroom.
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Hat Tips:
Chick-fil-A press release (August 12, 2026), verified for the August 24 nationwide launch, the breakfast and entrée Chicken & Waffles Sandwiches, the S’mores Milkshake and S’mores Frosted Coffee, the “Newstalgia” 80th-anniversary campaign, and menu director Allison Duncan’s comments
Dexerto (August 2026), verified for the all-day availability, the sandwich ingredients and customization options, the Austin drink test and Baltimore/San Antonio sandwich test dates, and the drink recipes
TheStreet (August 2026), verified for the nine-item lineup, the American Customer Satisfaction Index top-QSR ranking for the 11th year, and the test-market history
TODAY (August 2026), verified for the 2014 four-market chicken-and-waffles test, the “why does this need testing” fan reaction, and the breakfast-versus-entrée timing details