When Tod Wilson recently stopped at a wholesale supplier to pick up 30 dozen eggs for his Englewood pie shop, he said he "had to do a double take."
"Seventy-five dollars for 30 dozen large eggs? It's just unheard of," said Wilson, the owner of Mr. Tod's Pie Factory. "This is literally the highest I've ever seen it."
The wholesale price for a carton of a dozen eggs has more than doubled over the last month, as deadly Avian flu spread through the Midwest, leading to the loss of tens of millions of egg-laying hens. The dramatic price increase has left New Jersey food businesses like Wilson's that need eggs to make their signature products struggling to cope with the additional costs.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: NJ.com
