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Waffle House drops its egg surcharge | |
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN | |
Updated: | |
3:37 PM EDT, Tue July 1, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
Waffle House had a welcome announcement for customers of its | |
round-the-clock breakfast offerings: it has officially taken its egg | |
surcharge off the menu. | |
The Georgia-based chain that maintains an eerily accurate may also now | |
be providing a barometer for America’s food prices. The soaring price | |
of eggs due to a severe outbreak of the bird flu led . | |
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 . 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 . | |
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. | |
The chain operates more than 2,000 restaurants. | |
“Egg-cellent news…as of June 2, the egg surcharge is officially off | |
the menu. Thanks for understanding!,” the company said in an X post | |
Tuesday. | |
CNN’s Jordan Valinsky and David Goldman contributed to this report. | |
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