Waffle Home is legendary for greater than the meals—the restaurant chain is used as a barometer to decide 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 a press release concerning the breakfast staple—by including a 50-cent surcharge (per egg) to orders nationwide.
Waffle Home notes, “Quite than rising costs throughout the menu, this can be a non permanent, focused surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg costs.”
Resulting from 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 brought on by HPAI (fowl flu) has triggered a dramatic improve in egg costs.”
“Clients and eating places are being compelled to make troublesome 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 yr, and in some cities, like New York, clients may be paying $1 per egg on the grocery retailer—a dozen cage-free eggs at Entire Meals had been promoting for $11.99.
And it isn’t 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.