Thursday, 03 July 2025

“Egg-cellent News” – Waffle House Announces Policy Change Benefiting Wallets Of Consumers


Waffle House announced Tuesday that it has dropped an egg surcharge from its menu.

“Egg-cellent news…as of June 2, the egg surcharge is officially off the menu. Thanks for understanding!” the breakfast chain said.

The company added a 50-cent per egg surcharge in early February due to increased prices, impacting 2,000+ locations in the United States.

American Food Chain Announces Egg Surcharge

ABC News noted:

With the national average wholesale price of eggs down 7% -- $2.54 per dozen last week -- per the latest United States Department of Agriculture Egg Markets report, the popular breakfast restaurant chain announced it will do away with the 50 cent per egg surcharge that Waffle House put into place in February amid the wave of bird flu that greatly impacted availability and prices.

"The continuing egg shortage caused by HPAI (Bird Flu) has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices. Consumers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions," Waffle House said in February.

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"Effective February 3, Waffle House has implemented a temporary .50 per egg surcharge to all menus," it added.

More from CNN:

It was a hefty surcharge for the chain’s most-ordered item: Waffle House says on its website it serves 272 million eggs a year (that’s more than its 153 million hash browns and 124 million of its namesake waffles).

After months of surging egg prices, they finally began falling in the spring. Egg prices fell 12.7% in April, and the USDA reported that a dozen large white-shell eggs now cost less than $3.

“On my first day as Secretary, we got to work to implement a five-pronged strategy to improve biosecurity on the farm and lower egg prices on grocery store shelves. The plan has worked, and families are seeing relief,” said US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in a statement last week.

The BLS said egg prices were still more expensive than they did a year earlier, but the decline was enough for chains like Waffle House to cut their surcharges.


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