(25 Feb 2025)
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Santa Rosa, California – 25 February 2025
1. Various of chef cooking egg dishes in kitchen of Mac’s Deli and Cafe
2. Various of eggs in containers
3. Worker beats eggs in kitchen
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tatum Soltani, manager, Mac’s Deli and Cafe:
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"Eggs are really important. We go through a lot of eggs. They’re usually $46 a case, and right now they’re $146 a case. So we’re spending about $4,000 on eggs alone every month."
5. Container with beaten eggs
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tatum Soltani, manager, Mac’s Deli and Cafe:
"So we have an additional $2 on every dish that includes eggs. And we haven’t had any complaints really."
7. Menu note about egg surcharge
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Tatum Soltani, manager, Mac’s Deli and Cafe:
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"A lot of people we know, they read it out loud and they go, oh yeah, we understand like we see it at the store."
9. Customers eat at restaurant counter
10. Cook puts put plates of food
11. Close-up of egg dishes
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Quintana, server, Mac’s Deli and Cafe:
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"It’s mixed. I mean, some people have been keeping up with sort of, you know, the shortage of eggs. And so they’re not surprised. And other people, you know, are upset because food’s really expensive."
13. Rachel Quintana bringing plates to diners
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Quintana, server, Mac’s Deli and Cafe:
"But they you know, people still keep coming, you know. So I wouldn’t say it’s affected business at all or anything."
15. Various of Mike Mullins and relatives eating at Mac’s
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Mullins, customer, Mac’s Deli and Cafe:
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"It’s a supply and demand issue. There’s a bird flu and a bunch of birds died. So you have to kind of adapt to the situation. I don’t really understand, I guess, why people would be so angry about something that the restaurants didn’t have any control over."
17. Cook flipping eggs
18. Plate with eggs and bacon
19. Diners eating at Mac’s Deli and Cafe
STORYLINE:
A growing number of restaurants are adding "egg surcharges" as avian flu outbreaks cause nationwide egg shortages and higher prices.
The American diner chain Denny’s, based in South Carolina, announced Tuesday that some of its roughly 1,500 U.S. restaurants will be adding an egg surcharge to offset rising costs.
Earlier this month, the Georgia-based Waffle House chain, a popular restaurant for breakfast food, said it would add a 50-cent surcharge for each egg.
Avian flu outbreaks have forced egg farms to cull millions of chickens per month, leading to shortages that have led some retailers to ration sales. The average price of a dozen Grade A eggs in U.S. cities hit $4.95 in January, and the USDA predicts it will soar another 20% this year.
Mac’s Deli and Cafe in Santa Rosa, California recently added a $2 surcharge for dishes containing eggs. Manager Tatum Soltani said a case of eggs that used to cost $46 now costs $146. She said she hasn’t heard any complaints because most customers understand that egg prices are rising.
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