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 yr.
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 House notes, “Quite than rising costs throughout the menu, it is a non permanent, focused surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg costs.”
Resulting from hen 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 brought on by HPAI (hen flu) has precipitated a dramatic enhance in egg costs.”
“Prospects and eating places are being pressured to make troublesome choices,” the assertion added.
The chain additionally posted indicators in eating places with the information.
Waffle Home has introduced that they’ll quickly be including a 50-cent surcharge per egg till egg costs go down. pic.twitter.com/vVT3jGOVPv
— Every thing Georgia (@GAFollowers) February 4, 2025
Egg costs have increased by 50% over the previous yr, and in some cities, like New York, prospects may be paying $1 per egg on the grocery retailer—a dozen cage-free eggs at Entire Meals had been selling for $11.99.
And it isn’t simply hitting Waffle Home. Native information shops 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 changing recipes.
