Waffle Home Simply Added an Egg Surcharge to Its Menu

Your breakfast at Waffle Home is about to get a bit dearer. 

On Monday, the restaurant, which has greater than 2,000 places throughout america, introduced that it is including a surcharge for eggs as a consequence of Waffle Home’s rising overhead prices on its egg provide attributable to avian influenza.

“The persevering with egg scarcity attributable to HPAI (Chicken Flu) has precipitated a dramatic improve in egg costs,” Waffle Home stated in a press launch shared with varied publications. “Shoppers and eating places are being pressured to make troublesome selections. Efficient February 3, Waffle Home has carried out a short lived .50 per gg surcharge to all menus.” 

The restaurant famous that the worth improve is a “momentary focused surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg costs. So long as they’re obtainable, high quality, fresh-cracked, Grade A Massive eggs will stay a key ingredient in a lot of our prospects’ favourite meals. Whereas we hope these worth fluctuations might be short-lived, we can’t predict how lengthy this scarcity will final. We’re constantly monitoring egg costs and can modify or take away the surcharge as market situations enable.”

In keeping with the Waffle Home web site, it serves an astonishing 272 million eggs per yr, not counting the eggs used to make its pancakes, waffles, and different batters, showcasing the pressure that elevated pricing can have on the corporate’s backside line. 

As Meals & Wine has often reported over the previous few months, egg costs within the U.S. are skyrocketing as a consequence of hen flu, extreme climate, and provide chain points. In late January, we famous the latest information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which confirmed that the price of a dozen giant Grade A eggs reached $4.15 in December — a 37% rise over the previous yr. 

The problem can be compounded by the Trump administration’s efforts to make it more durable for shoppers to seek out and perceive the most recent information. 

On January 3, we reported on the USDA’s month-to-month livestock outlook, which confirmed that table-egg-laying flocks have been massively impacted by the unfold of the flu. “There have been 3.97 million table-egg layers depopulated in November alone, and within the first week of December, the lack of a further 2.5 million birds in two Merced, California flocks was confirmed,” the report acknowledged. Nevertheless, that webpage has since been deleted. The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s web site nonetheless states that 149,964,521 birds have been affected by the hen flu, up from 128,907,392 on January 3. Hold monitor of the most recent hen flu statistics at cdc.gov/bird-flu.