Waffle House adds $0.50 surcharge for every egg

Waffle House is charging customers an other 50 cents per egg to offset a shortage that’s sent prices soaring with nary contiguous extremity successful sight.

“The continuing ovum shortage caused by HPAI (Bird Flu) has caused a melodramatic summation successful ovum prices,” Waffle House said successful a connection sent to the Daily News. “Consumers and restaurants are being forced to marque difficult decisions.”

The Georgia-based edifice concatenation implemented its terms alteration Monday and hopes the hike is temporary. Waffle House said it opted to affix a surcharge simply to eggs alternatively than hiking prices connected each paper items to offset higher costs the institution is incurring.

Waffle House said it volition proceed monitoring the nationalist poultry occupation and plans to rotation backmost the surcharge arsenic markets adjust.

“While we anticipation these terms fluctuations volition beryllium short-lived we cannot foretell however agelong this shortage volition last,” the institution stated.

Waffle House isn’t unsocial successful feeling the effects of the vertebrate flu, which has led to ovum prices nationally averaging $4.12 per dozen. The USDA expect prices to leap different 20% successful 2025 arsenic agriculture workers effort to replenish their vertebrate populations. At this clip past year, a twelve eggs were $3.50, according to user probe radical NIQ.

Roughly 17 cardinal egg-laying hens were killed successful the last 2 months of 2024 arsenic a effect of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

CNN concern newsman Vanessa Yurkevich said Wednesday that Waffle House’s 2,100 locations merchantability 272 cardinal eggs per year, which is treble what the concatenation sells successful waffles.

“There are simply less eggs and eggs are getting much expensive,” Yurkevich explained.

Waffle House’s two-egg meal sold for $7.75 Tuesday. It’s served with toast and a broadside dish. The franchise is mostly situated successful Southern states and the Midwest.

Eggs prices became a governmental shot during past year’s election, wherever President Trump vowed to statesman lowering market prices immediately.

“I won an predetermination based connected that,” helium told NBC’s “Meet the Press” aft defeating Democrat Kamala Harris successful November. “We’re going to bring those prices mode down.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt past week blamed the culling of infected chickens nether the Biden Administration for a deficiency of ovum accumulation and higher costs.

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