Burger King Cini-Minis
Bite-sized cinnamon rolls served hot with a little tub of icing for dipping, sold at Burger King for 99 cents from the spring of 1998. They disappeared from the national menu in 2012, and the petitions, a Grubhub promotion, a Florida test and a 2025 nationwide comeback all say how many people never stopped asking.
In the 1990s Burger King teamed up with Pillsbury on a line of baked goods, and the hit of the partnership arrived in the spring of 1998: Cini-Minis, small cinnamon rolls that the launch press release promised would "taste like homemade cinnamon rolls" and be "served hot with a side of icing." They cost a mere 99 cents. The pitch was that they were baked fresh in the restaurant every day, and for a fast-food breakfast that was unusual enough to make them a draw in their own right rather than a side.
They became the breakfast a generation of kids ordered on the way to school. Writing in Consumerist in July 2010, Marc Perton called them the chain's real kids' breakfast: "Burger King's real kiddie breakfast has long been the Cini-Mini." Then they were gone. Burger King never made a fuss about dropping them, and even the trade press can only say they were discontinued in the early 2010s; the last year they were available nationwide was 2012.
The afterlife was louder than the departure. A 2016 Change.org petition titled "Demand Burger King bring back Cini-Minis" collected more than 6,700 signatures, its author, Brett Pickett, writing that "Cini-Minis were a large part of my childhood until Burger King chicken-stripped them away from me." In November 2018 the rolls came back as a Grubhub exclusive, free with a delivery order of at least $10 through the end of that year, tucked into the Breakfast Sides section of the app. In November 2024 they returned for a limited time in select Florida markets, and in August 2025 Burger King announced on Instagram that they were back nationwide, for a limited time, at $2.99 an order or inside the $5 Duo and $7 Trio bundles, and available all day rather than only at breakfast.
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