NORTH LIMA, Ohio (WKBN) — Restaurants and bakeries keep scrambling as egg prices continue to climb. It’s frying their business, with no sunny side option that anyone can see. One local place cracked the shell on a new way to handle the situation.
Eggs are a very important ingredient at C’s Waffles in North Lima. But on Wednesday, it had to raise costs for people who order eggs.
“We just couldn’t eat it anymore. I mean, we were, we’re 60 plus cents per egg now. And that’s, that’s a lot,” C’s Waffles North Lima Owner Liz DiBacco said.
Liz Dibacco is the owner and says the restaurant uses five cases of eggs a day. That’s 800 eggs. The price per case is 33% higher than it was two months ago. It put up a sign saying each egg in an order would raise the price by 50 cents.
“But our prices are just too far out of hand now to be able to keep eating it ourselves,” DiBacco said.
Dibacco said the decision was made over the last three months watching egg prices rise and then one night after looking at its bills laid out for over five hours.
The temporary increase only applies to egg orders, not items made with eggs in the batter like pancakes or waffles.
“We had to do it when we really didn’t want to,” DiBacco said.
It did notice fewer orders for eggs but had no complaints in the restaurant. It felt the weekend would be another gauge of how the price increase will be received.
“So we’re hoping that the outpouring of support that we have had is paid forward,” DiBacco said.
The 50-cent charge will help, but C’s is still being pinched as egg prices show no sign of slowing down. It’s still battling higher beef and sausage prices. Plenty of other options remain on the menu.
If conditions change with egg prices, Dibacco says she would be happy to remove the sign as quickly as possible and return the pricing to normal.
“Extremely because we’ve always prided ourselves on keeping our prices lower than anybody else’s as best we could,” DiBacco said.
DiBacco has owned C’s since 2005. She’s also battled cost hikes with milk, an ecoli scare in lettuce, and COVID-19. She called the egg situation worse than all of them.
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