Rather than hiking prices on their menus, which are costly to reprint, they are letting diners know upfront that each egg in an omelet, breakfast burrito and French toast comes with a fee. Restaurants are calling the egg surcharges temporary,

Waffle House announced it will be adding a 50-cent surcharge to all egg items sold at its more than 2,000 locations because of soaring egg prices caused by the bird flu. The surcharge went into effect Monday.

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,