Waffle Home is known for greater than the meals—the restaurant chain is used as a barometer to determine the severity of native storms and is just about the catalyst for Reddit’s existence. It additionally sells 272 million eggs per 12 months.
Now, these eggs are getting dear, and the 24-hour roadside stalwart is making a press release concerning the breakfast staple—by including a 50-cent surcharge (per egg) to orders nationwide. The pricing will have an effect on the entire restaurant’s places (around 2,000 in 25 states).
Waffle House notes, “Fairly than rising costs throughout the menu, this can be a non permanent, focused surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg costs.”
As a result of fowl flu, Waffle Home is including a .50 cent per egg surcharge to all menus @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/hpfn52RIlh
— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) February 3, 2025
Waffle Home reps mentioned the “persevering with egg scarcity attributable to HPAI (fowl flu) has triggered a dramatic enhance in egg costs.”
“Clients and eating places are being compelled to make tough choices,” the assertion added.
The chain additionally posted indicators with the information in eating places.
The Waffle Home chain is now charging extra for eggs across the nation together with the restaurant in Urbana, Maryland on February 04, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Put up | Getty Photographs)
Egg costs have increased by 50% over the previous 12 months, and in some cities, like New York, prospects is perhaps paying $1 per egg on the grocery retailer—a dozen cage-free eggs at Complete Meals have been selling for $11.99.
And it is not simply hitting Waffle Home.
Native information retailers from Tampa, Florida to Upstate New York report that space eating places are grappling with rising costs by making modifications in-house, from switching suppliers to even changing recipes.
