Waffle Home is known for greater than the meals—the restaurant chain is used as a barometer to find out 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, the 24-hour roadside stalwart is making an announcement in regards to the breakfast staple—by including a 50-cent surcharge (per egg) to orders nationwide.
Waffle Home notes, “Quite than rising costs throughout the menu, it is a momentary, focused surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg costs.”
Resulting from chicken 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 stated the “persevering with egg scarcity brought on by HPAI (chicken flu) has precipitated a dramatic enhance in egg costs.”
“Clients and eating places are being pressured to make tough choices,” the assertion added.
The chain additionally posted indicators in eating places with the information.
Waffle Home has introduced that they are going to quickly be including a 50-cent surcharge per egg till egg costs go down. pic.twitter.com/vVT3jGOVPv
— The whole lot Georgia (@GAFollowers) February 4, 2025
Egg costs have elevated by 50% over the previous 12 months, and in some cities, like New York, clients could be paying $1 per egg on the grocery retailer—a dozen cage-free eggs at Complete Meals had been promoting 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 adjustments in-house, from switching suppliers to even altering recipes.
