The restaurant chain, which serves breakfast all day, said it was adding the temporary 50-cent surcharge because the bird flu has caused a shortage in the egg supply.

The yolks on them. Cracker Barrel promised customers they won’t have to pay extra for omelettes — egging on rival Waffle House for its recent price hike. “A surcharge on eggs? Well, there’s nothing hospitable about that,

“The continuing egg shortage caused by HPAI (bird flu) has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices,” Waffle House said in the statement. “Rather than increasing prices across the menu, this is a temporary targeted surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg prices.”