Waffle House announces $ 0.50 Supplement on eggs due to bird flu

Waffle House announced that it will add an additional charge of $ 0.50 to all egg objects in the menu sold on its more than 2,000 Location due to rising egg prices caused by bird flu.

The grant came into force on Monday.

In a statement, the Comfort Food franchise said the supplement was triggered by the very infectious virus that has affected chicken population and caused an egg deficiency. More than 13 million hens have been lost or slaughtered since December after the bird flu outbreak, according to the last of the agricultural ward Overview of egg markets.

Economists and market analysts have mentioned bird flu as the biggest cause of the price increase along with the typical consumer’s demand for eggs during winter holiday season.

“Consumers and restaurants are forced to make difficult decisions,” said Waffle House Inc. in the statement.

The franchise said that the increase of $ 0.50 “is a temporarily targeted supplement” tied to the increase in egg prices and that it “will adjust or remove the additional fee permitted by market conditions.”

“While we hope these price fluctuations will be short -lived, we cannot predict how long this deficiency will last,” said the franchise.

Relevant to the food industry’s recovery and mitigating spread of the virus is to identify cases of bird flu.

To help with bird flu studies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called on laboratories to determine whether people admitted with the flu have the virus or just seasonal flu within 24 hours of recording.

This guide has been in place since last fall, but many hospitals have sent flu sampling out for testing in bulk every few days. According to CDCS Dr. Nirav Shah, senior adviser, acting principal deputy director of the agency, patients are often already sent home when the test results have returned.

“The more time goes by, the more memories fall, and the harder it is to identify a potential source,” Shah said during a news briefing last month. This can also mean that “their close contacts can be outside the window of preventative medicine such as Tamiflu.”

The seasonal flu is raging in the United States right now, especially in the West, over the Midwest and deep into the southeast, that CDC said last month.