Community Chat

[MorningLover]

ThinkingOutLoud wrote:

We rescue cats wrote:

It is understandable, the restaurants cannot absorb the  increased costs. But as my husband always notes, when the price goes back down most likely they will not remove the surcharge.

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That's pretty pessemistic. I like to think that the honest ones will.

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Some restaurants are implementing temporary surcharges on meals containing eggs to offset rising costs.

Restaurants are stating that these surcharges are temporary measures, intended to address the current egg shortage and rising costs, and will be adjusted or removed as market conditions allow. 

[wifey2qt]

@We rescue cats  - IF the prices go back down ........

[branny]

thank you all for your responses. I wasn't aware this was going on because I didn't see it on the news or read about it, plus I don't usually go out for breakfast. I thought it was just that restaurant. 

[stevieb]

Most entities will use any reason, valid or not, to increase prices and when the supposed reason abates, as others have noted, not taking bets that prices will be reduced. Personally, I don't eat breakfast out often but think the notion of an egg surcharge is ridiculous. We'll see if it's temporary and one has to wonder, what is the criteria by which they'll decide to return to normal pricing, assuming they do so.

[Venezia]

Our local diner is adding a surcharge of 50 cents per egg.  There is a big sign on the door as you walk in.

To me, a surcharge is a temporary change.  They could've just raised all their prices across the board and that would be permanent.  We trust them to drop the surcharge when/if prices go down.

Some of these places are operating on a slim margin of profit.  I'd have paid the surcharge; I wouldn't have asked them to remove it.  If it had been something like $5 or more, with no prior notice, that would've been different.

Why spoil a day out quibbling over $1.50?

[beckyb1012]

I am confident the prices of eggs will go back down and the surcharges will be removed.  

[reiki604]

Once restaurants raise their prices, I don't believe they will come back down. It will always be something to justify the price hike. Restaurants operate on a very slim profit margin to begin with.

[lgfan]

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@reiki604 wrote:

Once restaurants raise their prices, I don't believe they will come back down. It will always be something to justify the price hike. Restaurants operate on a very slim profit margin to begin with.

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It doesn't bother me if restaurants raise their prices but please make it permanent and stop calling it a surcharge.  I doubt that the prices will go down once eggs become cheaper.

[ValuSkr]

Yes, I have heard of this practice.  Try to avoid eggs in restaurants.