'restaurants Are Being Forced To Make Difficult Decisions': Waffle House Is Adding A Per Egg Surcharge

Waffle House is celebrated for overmuch than nan food—the edifice concatenation is utilized arsenic a barometer to find nan severity of conception storms and is beautiful overmuch nan catalyst for Reddit's existence. It too sells 272 cardinal eggs per year.

Now, nan 24-hour roadside stalwart is making a relationship astir nan repast staple—by adding a 50-cent surcharge (per egg) to orders nationwide.

Waffle House notes, "Rather than expanding prices crossed nan menu, this is simply a temporary, targeted surcharge tied to nan unprecedented emergence successful ovum prices."

Due to vertebrate flu, Waffle House is adding a .50 cent per ovum surcharge to each menus @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/hpfn52RIlh

— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 3, 2025

Waffle House reps said nan "continuing ovum shortage caused by HPAI (bird flu) has caused a melodramatic summation successful ovum prices."

"Customers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions," nan relationship added.

The concatenation too posted signs successful restaurants pinch nan news.

Waffle House has announced that they will temporarily beryllium adding a 50-cent surcharge per ovum until ovum prices spell down. pic.twitter.com/vVT3jGOVPv

— Everything Georgia (@GAFollowers) February 4, 2025

Egg prices personification accrued by 50% complete nan past year, and successful immoderate cities, for illustration New York, customers mightiness beryllium paying $1 per ovum astatine nan marketplace store—a 12 cage-free eggs astatine Whole Foods were trading for $11.99.

And it's not conscionable hitting Waffle House. Local news outlets from Tampa, Florida to Upstate New York study that area restaurants are grappling pinch rising prices by making changes in-house, from switching suppliers to moreover changing recipes.