Afternoon Briefing: Egg prices leave restaurants and bakeries scrambling
Good afternoon, Chicago.
When St. Charles residents Terry Beltran and her husband Scott opened their mom-and-pop diner over 18 years ago, they never envisioned the one-two punch that would come their way nearly two decades into operating Daddio's Diner in Batavia.
'We got hit pretty bad with the last virus a few years ago and still haven't recovered from that,' Scott Beltran said recently about the COVID-19 pandemic. 'Now we have this issue with bird flu and the price of eggs that have gone through the roof. Honestly, we're nearly bankrupt.'
Egg prices in the United States hit an all-time average high of $4.95 per dozen this month, officials have said, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicting the price could soar even higher as the year goes on because of the impact of bird flu. That means restaurants and other businesses that rely on eggs as a staple are scrambling to deal with the skyrocketing prices.
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