OAN Staff Break Wolf
2:18 pm -Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Waffle House, a restaurant chain with more than 2,000 locations in the US 25 states, has recently announced that the chain will add an additional $ 0.50 to all egg items. It affects the supply chain.
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“Continuous egg deficiency caused by HPAI (bird flu) caused dramatic rise in egg prices,” said the company. CNN。 “Customers and restaurants are forced to make difficult decisions.”
The additional charges are applied to about 2,100 places of the diner, and the company explains this movement as “temporary”.
“This is a temporary target additional charge that led to an unprecedented rise in egg prices, rather than raising prices on the entire menu,” said the company, which is best known for late -night comfortable food. 。
“I hope that these price fluctuations will be short -lived, but we cannot predict how long this shortage will last,” concluded.
The company's website states that Waffle House uses about 272 million eggs a year. This is a staple food on the theme of the classic all -American diner of the chain, exceeding hash brown and waffle.
In 2022, the occurrence of bird flu was attacked by the United States for the first time, and about 150 million poultry was infected by February 3.RDAccording to the disease management prevention center (CDC) in 2025.
According to the Consumer Price Index of the US Labor Statistics Bureau, the SPREAD extension of the disease has reduced the supply.
Animal health organizations around the world have reported that more than 300 million birds have died of bird flu since 2021. The 300 million figures contain both chicken animals and wild birds, but chicken farms have the majority of death.
Due to the resulting effect, dozens of large eggs jumped from $ 2.51 in December 2023 to $ 4.15 in December 2024. But it is different in each state.
“I'm not a bad news bearer … but we've been there for a while,” said Emily Mets, the CEO of the American egg committee. “Unfortunately, the supply of this very tight egg will continue until you have time without detecting.”
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