Well, Waffle House's Egg Surcharge Didn't Last Long

UPDATE Jul 2, 2025 11:05 AM CDT

For those with a penchant for moaning about the price of eggs, you'll have to retrain your ire away from Waffle House. The calamity-spotting fast-food chain, which rolled out a $.50 surcharge on any egg-based menu item in February, has now rolled it right back barely five months later, reports ABC News. "Egg-cellent news," Waffle House posted on X. "The egg surcharge is officially off the menu. Thanks for understanding!" "The temporary egg surcharge was its own sort of misery index as the nation vented its frustration with runaway food prices," notes NPR, and as egg prices have come down, so, too, have such surcharges. (Cracker Barrel, meanwhile, thought the surcharge was hysterical.)

Feb 4, 2025 12:25 PM CST

Waffle House, that bastion of predicting when national disasters are getting real, is starting to feel the heat of avian flu. While Americans have long been griping about the rising cost of eggs, the hangover-food chain is now chiming in with a 50-cent surcharge on any egg-based menu item, reports NBC News. The change, announced Monday, affects some 2,000 US locations—though perhaps only temporarily, per the AP.

"While we hope these price fluctuations will be short-lived, we cannot predict how long this shortage will last," said a company statement. The AP notes that a two-egg breakfast, with toast and a side, was listed at $7.75 on Tuesday. The chain says it'll continue to monitor egg prices and adjust accordingly.