Cracker Barrel isn’t scrambling to catch up with soaring egg prices and is trying to poach customers with a rewards program after Waffle House announced a 50-cent egg surcharge.

Amidst soaring egg prices and a national shortage, Cracker Barrel said Thursday that its customers won’t be extra for eggs because “there’s nothing hospitable about that.” Just days after Georgia-based Waffle House announced a new,

Waffle House became one of the first big chains to join smaller restaurants with surcharges for egg dishes. Economists don’t see near-term relief on egg prices.

As bird flu continues to spread across the United States, questions have emerged about the risk of contracting the virus from milk and eggs. Additionally, hundreds of dairy cow herds have been affected,

Researchers have stressed that bird flu still poses a minimal risk to the general public, though that may change as the virus continues to circulate and potentially mutate. But the many empty shelves in stores and higher prices on the eggs that people can find have raised concerns among consumers about the safety of the egg supply.

A number of factors - chiefly, the bird flu - is causing you to pay more for eggs at the market than ever. Will the price of eggs ever come down?