NVIDIA Breakfast Bytes now available at Denny's for a limited time

You might be looking at the date and thinking that we're close enough to April 1 that this is some sort of tongue-in-cheek story, but it's not. For those that know their NVIDIA lore, as plans were being put in place to start one of the biggest tech companies in the world, co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang's first job was at American diner-style restaurant chain Denny's.

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'NVIDIA Breakfast Bytes' are now on the menu at Denny's, image credit: Denny's.

Between long shifts and saving up enough money to start a new business (and probably putting a deposit on his first leather jacket), Jensen Huang would sit at Denny's booth drafting plans for what would end up being NVIDIA. For food, he would wrap Denny's sausages in Denny's pancakes, pour syrup over them, and eat them.

Questionable nutritional value aside, this was (apparently) a key stepping stone toward AI and PC gaming domination with CUDA, RTX, and GeForce. We like to think that seeing the reflection of his surroundings in the syrup made him realize that one day, real-time ray-tracing in games would be possible. Or not. Either way, this combination of Denny's food is now being sold as 'NVIDIA Breakfast Bytes' for a limited time.

Available until May 13, this is, funnily enough, an affordable NVIDIA product that you won't have trouble finding.

"Denny's will always be a special place for me," Jensen Huang said. "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!"