Daquan Woodbury

And you're looking at it, you're like, so what do you do?

I mean, it's the basis of American breakfast, right? So, I mean, everything comes with eggs, and even things that you don't realize comes with eggs, right? Because you'll say chicken and waffles, and everybody's like, oh, okay, well, you don't really think about eggs in that.

Yeah, it's like you say that, but then what? Right, what do you substitute for eggs?

Our good morning, which is our simple eggs, meat, toast. You have the hangry breakfast. That's a big breakfast that comes with eggs. And then somebody else ordered an omelet. So right there, that's eight eggs on one ticket, right? So it's everything. It doesn't stop.

Yeah, so recently we've gone up about a dollar on each of our menu items that includes eggs. And the demand is always going to be there, so we've increased our prices, but that doesn't stop people from buying it necessarily, right? So they still want it.

Yes, it is what it is.

It's just general relief, a plan. I feel like in a general sense, we're getting educated on why the egg prices are what they are, but okay, how are we going to solve it? What's the fix?

Eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, and more eggs. Yeah, just on a good, good week, we're cracking at least 3,000 eggs. 3,000 eggs. And maybe up from there.

maybe our star isn't breakfast anymore, right? So it's like, well, is that where we go? You know, we lean more on the coffee. You know, coffee is kind of a side gig for us, but our brand is breakfast. Do we start saying, hey, can we rebrand ourselves into something that's like, hey, you can get an egg sandwich, but you don't have to. Maybe our culture now doesn't eat eggs as much.

Even taking it back to like the beginning of last year, so just a quick 12 months ago, right? You know, I would say our normal case of 15 dozen eggs was generally somewhere around $40-ish.

Thank you. I appreciate you guys having me. I look forward to expectations that the prices will go down, right?