Lunch, All Day and Weekend Specials

There are three special menus here, they overlap, and only one of them is visible online all day. If you have ever looked for a lunch deal at four in the afternoon and concluded it had been discontinued, this is the article that explains what happened.

All three work the same way underneath: a main item, a side of fries or onion rings, and a drink, at one price.

The three menus

The Weekend Special is a shorter version of the All Day list rather than a different menu. The Lunch Special is genuinely its own thing — different items, different numbering, and a window of five hours.

What is on the lunch menu

Six items, numbered L1 to L6, weekdays until half past three:

• L1 — Blackened Herb Chicken, 7-inch
• L2 — 5 pieces of wings
• L3 — French Dip, 7-inch
• L4 — Shrimp Po’boy
• L5 — Fried Fish Po’boy
• L6 — 8 pieces of wings

It leans heavily on po’boys and wings, and it is the only place the French Dip appears as a special. Note there is no cheesesteak on it — if that is what you want at lunchtime, the All Day list is running alongside.

What is on the all-day menu

Fifteen items, A1 to A15, weekdays. It is the broadest of the three and covers most of the menu:

• Burgers — cheeseburger and double cheeseburger
• Cheesesteaks — 7-inch steak, 7-inch chicken, and steak with wings
• Wings — ten pieces
• Wraps — lamb gyro and chicken wrap
• Po’boys — buttermilk buffalo chicken, chicken bacon club, meatball sub
• Seafood combos — small and large
• Salads — grilled chicken caesar and grilled chicken house

The one to know about is A10: a 7-inch cheese steak with five wings. It is the only item on any of the three menus that gives you both, and it carries over to the weekend list. We have written about ordering those two together at length.

The weekend list

Saturday and Sunday, eight items pulled from the all-day list: the buttermilk buffalo chicken, ten wings, the cheese steak with five wings, both seafood combos, both grilled chicken salads and the meatball sub.

What is missing at weekends is the burgers, the wraps and the plain 7-inch cheesesteaks. If those are what you are after, they are on the main menu as normal — you just do not get the side and the drink bundled in.

The logic behind the shorter list is visible in what survived. The eight that carry over are the shareable and the substantial: both seafood combos, the ten wings, the cheese steak with wings. The weekday list is built around one person having lunch; the weekend list is built around a table. Whether that was the intention or not, it is how it works out in practice, and it is worth knowing if you are ordering for several people on a Saturday.

The salad exception

One rule catches people out. The salads on the special menus come with a drink only, not with fries or onion rings. Every other item on all three lists includes a side.

Which is reasonable enough — a grilled chicken caesar with a portion of fries next to it is not really a salad order any more — but it is worth knowing before you order rather than after.

Special, or off the main menu?

The specials are not simply cheaper versions of the same thing. They are fixed combinations, which is both the advantage and the catch.

• You want a side and a drink anyway — the special, every time
• You want a 12-inch rather than a 7-inch — main menu; the specials are all 7-inch
• You want a specific Philly build — main menu, since the specials list the plain cheese steak and the chicken
• You want a large wing count — main menu; the specials top out at ten pieces
• You are ordering for one and not fussy — the special

The pattern is straightforward. Specials cover the standard version of a thing with everything bundled; the main menu is where the sizes, the builds and the larger counts live. Anything on a special is on the main menu too.

Which menu you actually want

• Weekday before 3:30, want a po’boy or wings — Lunch Special
• Weekday, want a burger, wrap or cheesesteak — All Day Special
• Weekday, want both a cheesesteak and wings — A10
• Saturday or Sunday — Weekend Special, or the main menu
• Want a salad — either weekday list, and expect a drink rather than a side

One thing worth doing regardless: check the special list before you order, even when you already know what you want. Several of the items on it are things people order off the main menu out of habit, without the side and the drink that would have come with them on a weekday.

Between the three, most of the menu is covered on a weekday and about half of it at the weekend. If you are ordering off the main menu instead, the Philly list and the wings list are the two people reach for most.

The short version

Lunch runs weekdays 10:30 to 3:30 with six items and disappears from the ordering page outside those hours. All Day runs weekdays with fifteen. Weekends get eight of those fifteen. All of them include fries or rings and a drink, except the salads, which include the drink only.

Off-menu, or on it

The specials pull from the main menu — the Phillys and the wings lists are where most orders start.

Philly Cheesesteaks

Nine builds, two sizes.

Wings

5 pieces up to 200.

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