Waffle House became one of the first big chains to join smaller restaurants with surcharges for egg dishes. Economists don’t see near-term relief on egg prices.

A Waffle House worker is expressing concern over the recent egg surcharge the restaurant is passing onto its customers.

At a Waffle House in Atlanta, cooks were busy pouring waffle batter and flipping hash browns around noon on Tuesday when a message flashed on the two cash registers at the counter: “Due to the nationwide rise in the cost of eggs,

As the cost of eggs continues to rise, consumers are not only being impacting at grocery stores but paying more for breakfast restaurant meals.

Cracker Barrel isn’t scrambling to catch up with soaring egg prices and is trying to poach customers with a rewards program after Waffle House announced a 50-cent egg surcharge.

Waffle House’s announcement was attributed to soaring egg prices due to shortages caused by an aggressive strain of the avian flu.

In a statement shared with Nexstar, a Cracker Barrel spokesperson suggested that its new egg deal is a direct response to Waffle House’s decision to begin charging a surcharge for every egg ordered.

Diners at the chain known for its cheap breakfasts will have to shell out a little extra as bird flu ravages U.S. flocks of laying hens.

Waffle House customers are unhappy with the restaurant chain, after it put a 50 percent surcharge on eggs as a result of the current bird flu outbreak. Newsweek has reached out to Waffle House via email for comment.

Restaurants are being forced to up their prices as ongoing outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) -- or bird flu -- continues to limit supplies.