Egg Prices Are Skyrocketing — Why Isn’t the Cost of Chicken Rising, Too?
February 19, 2025 | 1 min to read
Eggs have recently become a hot and expensive commodity, prompting major retailers to implement an egg limit and Waffle House to add a surcharge on egg orders. In contrast, there are no purchasing limits on chicken breasts, nor surcharges on chicken dinners. The reason lies in the distinction between the types of chickens; those that produce eggs differ from the broilers raised solely for meat production.
Eggs have been a hot and expensive commodity lately. Multiple major retailers have enacted an egg limit while Waffle House recently added a surcharge to every egg ordered.
You likely won’t, however, find a limit on how many packages of chicken breasts you can purchase at your local grocery store, or a surcharge on the Waffle House chicken dinner.
Why? It’s all about the type of chicken.
The chickens that produce eggs are not the same chickens that become wings, tenders, breasts, and drumsticks. The latter are known as broilers and are raised solely for meat production.
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