Not everyone can be Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, but the legions of techies who lined up at SAP Center to hear his GTC keynote could at least eat like him Tuesday morning.
Denny’s parked its mobile diner truck in the downtown San Jose arena’s parking lot, handing out free samples of Nvidia Breakfast Bytes — a temporary menu item that’ll be available at restaurants starting March 19.
A sign promoting Nvidia Breakfast Bytes, a temporary menu item at Denny’s inspired by a favorite meal of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Denny’s distributed samples of the dish outside SAP Center in downtown San Jose before Huang’s keynote address at GTC, an AI technology conference, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group)
Conferencegoers got a half-portion of the menu item, which consists of four silver-dollar pancakes and four links of sausage. The lore is that Huang would eat the sausages wrapped in the pancakes, pigs-in-a-blanket style, topped with a bit of syrup.
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Nvidia and Denny’s have a long history together. Huang worked at the restaurant starting when he was 15 years old, and it was at a Denny’s in San Jose that he and co-founders Chris Malachowski and Curtis Priem sketched out the plan for Nvidia on a napkin in 1993.
“Denny’s will always be a special place for me,” Huang said in a statement released as part of the food promotion. “It’s where I learned that no task was too small to do well. This dish powered me through my long shifts and eventually inspired the birth of Nvidia at a Denny’s booth. Seeing it on the Denny’s menu is a true full-stack moment.”
