Denny’s, the restaurant chain where Jensen Huang worked as a waiter when he was 15, brought Nvidia Breakfast Bytes to GTC 2025, inspired by his favorite food.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appeared at a Denny’s mobile food truck a few hours before taking the stage to speak at the company’s GTC 2025 conference held on March 17-21 in San Jose, USA. He tried a special dish that was served for free called Nvidia Breakfast Bytes. He worked at the restaurant chain as a dishwasher, kitchen assistant, and waiter in his youth.
He then suddenly walked into the Live at Nvidia GTC studio and asked, “Anyone order Denny’s?” He started serving Nvidia Breakfast Bytes, while talking about his time working at the restaurant.
“I came to America when I was pretty young, and I didn’t really know anything about American food. One day, I got a job at Denny’s when I was 15. It was the best job in the world because they gave you two free meals a day. It was unbelievable, right?” he said. “You could eat anything but New York steak. My favorite was a hot dog and a pancake, rolled up like a hot dog on a stick, you know what I mean? You dip it in syrup. We used to call it pigs in a blanket.”
It wasn’t just working at Denny’s that Huang and co-founders Chris Malachowski and Curtis Priem sketched out the plan for Nvidia on a napkin at the restaurant in 1993.
The Nvidia Breakfast Bytes consisted of four hot dogs, four pancakes and syrup. A sign posted at a Denny’s food truck near GTC 2025 tells diners to wrap hot dogs in pancakes and drizzle them with syrup, and the Nvidia CEO says the dish helps him get through long workdays.