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Things do not look too sunny for restaurants in Talahasi and elsewhere: egg prices continue to increase and so far there are no signs of egg release soon.

While the nation feels attached to these prices, some local restaurants hatch ways to counteract costs. However, to be sure, this means that the price of some menu elements has increased.

Buyers in the United States see that egg prices are rising and the boundaries of purchases imposed due to an influenza influenza epidemic affecting supplies, USA Today reports.

How bad is it? According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average price per dozen was $ 4.10 at the end of 2024 – twice as much as August 2023. The average price per dozen last month was even higher, $ 4.95 dollars S

Homemade restaurants serving breakfast deal with the best they can. Get establishments for EGG Café. Local breakfast and brunch, with places of 3470 Austin Davis Ave. and 300 S. Duval St., is best known for its eggs for eggs: omelets, benedicts, concise and more.

“It’s hard to be an egg (cafe) without eggs,” owner Mike Schmid said in an interview. The new door signs inform the guests that any food they order with eggs will cost extra – at least in the foreseeable future. For example, “Ultimate Seafood Omelette” now costs an extra dollar.

Servers will remind guests during orders if patrons want to order another item without eggs.

“This influenced us a lot. I want to say they are more than double costs,” Schmidt said.

The increase added thousands more to its food costs for both places. Schmidt says he has spent approximately 2000 – $ 2,500 a week to deliver both egg stores. He now spends $ 4,500.

This year’s case of inflation due to bird flu is a little more exclusive than what he has dealt with in his 25 -year work. In order to prepare for a possible shortage, while remaining optimistic that prices will eventually fall back, the store raised its egg storage to maintain sailing operations.

“We do the best to control costs and control prices, but just tolerate with us. We are your neighbors,” he said, adding that he hopes “guests stand next to us and still support us through this hard Time.

Bada Bean changes the menu, raises prices

At Apalachee Parkway, Wendy Nobauer, the owner of the popular Bada Bean breakfast, is in the same cooperative with egg prices and has to adjust the menus.

“We had to rise. We had no choice,” Nubauer told the decision to increase prices by $ 1 for bigger snacks with eggs like omelets. The smaller breakfast items received 50 cents. “We last as long as we could, but as I said, we are just a small shop for mom and pop.”

Neubauer and her husband Alan opened the breakfast spot just over 17 years ago. At that time, according to the statistical work of the desk, the average price of a dozen eggs was $ 1.68.

During her first year of work, Nubauer said that the 15th cases I would order for the store cost her $ 18. Today, the same amount costs $ 139.96.

“I’m going everywhere because we’re just a small restaurant, but I’m only paying over $ 3,000 a week,” she said.

So far, the restaurant’s weekly offers have been switched to save on eggs and costs. The new weekly special offers have a Mexican dish with a cake and a sandwich with buffalo crab cake.

At that moment she is grateful for her creativity in the kitchen, but she is afraid that the way things are going prices will not go down soon.

Asked if she thinks she will have to restructure her restaurant’s prices as a whole, Neubauer says this may be her only option: “If we don’t get relief if the crazy prices are right now.”

Oleev protruding to cope with despite the cost of eggs

Over the past 28 years, Olean Olean McCaskill’s Café owner has created his signature pan, transferring his eggs to the dinner window inside his South Adams Street store to see. She does not plan to change this practice soon.

“Some people use powdered eggs, some people use liquid eggs,” McCaskil says in an interview, referring to those who use whole egg substitutes. But “it just doesn’t look right if I don’t crack your eggs.”

She explained that this was not her first experience with high egg prices, but that would not change any of her operations. Prices will remain the same as its specialized breakfast dishes.

“I look and see what to do but I still don’t want to do it,” She said about tourist prices. Instead, she hopes the cost of eggs will decrease at some point.

McCaskil said she was currently paying about $ 200 for 30 eggs, but she’s not worried: “I’m looking for what to turn over,” she said with a smile, as evangelical music played quietly in the background.

KYLA A SANFORD covers the dining room and fun for the Tallahassee Democrat. A new restaurant opens, special offers or events that appear? Notify me at ksanford@tallahassee.com. You can also send an email to your suggestions for a future TLH EATS restaurant profileS

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