Cheyenne Frontier Days Pancake Breakfast Serves Thousands

The first of three 2025 Cheyenne Frontier Days Pancake Breakfasts was held on Monday morning, serving free flapjacks to  thousands of hungry visitors and Cheyenne residents.

Official figures from Monday showed 4,443 breakfasts were served.

The event is organized by the Kiwanis Club of Cheyenne.

Pancake breakfasts have been a CFD tradition since the early 1950s.

It's More Than Just  A Free Breakfast

Besides offering a free meal to Cheyenne Frontier Days visitors and Cheyenne residents, the breakfasts serve as a Kiwanis Club of Cheyenne drill in feeding large numbers of people in case of a natural disaster or other large-scale emergency situations.

Pancake Breakfast Chair Denise Newell of the Cheyenne Kiwanis Club says the breakfasts this week will consume over 4,000 pounds of pancake mix and 400 gallons of syrup. She also says that as of the start of this week, the breakfasts will have served 1.4 million flapjacks since it started out 59 years ago.

The single-day record was registered during the Wednesday 1996 feeding frenzy, where 16,897 people were served.  The weekly record was broken that same year when 39,111 people were fed in a combined serving time of eight hours and ten minutes.

1996 was the 100th edition of Cheyenne Frontier Days and drew huge crowds across the board

The breakfasts are a CFD tradition dating back to 1952. They are presented by the Kiwanis Club Of Cheyenne, in part to practice feeding large numbers of people in the event of an emergency.

More pancake breakfasts are slated for Wednesday and Friday morning between 7 and 9 am the Cheyenne Depot Plaza.