Diner’s shock over insane cost for extra egg

A young Australian woman has blasted a cafe after she was charged $6 for an additional egg with her breakfast.

Alyssa Jayne, from the Gold Coast in Queensland, paid $13 for ‘eggs your way’ that came with two slices of toast but just one egg.

When she went to add an extra egg as a side, her bill significantly increased.

‘Does anyone know, broken down, how much it costs a cafe when someone adds an extra egg, like how much that extra egg would cost them, because why the f**k is it costing us $6?’ she said in a TikTok.

‘$6?! No, no no, no. I am not spending $6 on one single poached egg.’

She said the fact her meal didn’t come with two eggs already was ‘criminal’ as there were two slices of bread.

‘I understand you want to profit but surely that is like daylight robbery,’ Ms Jayne said. 

‘I can go to Coles and get a 12-pack of eggs for $5 or $6 and you’re telling me you’re charging me $6 for my one egg.’

Ms Jayne said that when she worked at a cafe as a teenager, the business charged customers an extra $2 if they requested their eggs be cooked in a different style as to what was on the menu.

‘$2 for you to like do a different motion of your hand,’ she said.

Her TikTok has been viewed more than 20,000 times with many commenters questioning why meals weren’t cheaper when certain items were removed.

‘And why when I ask to remove the poached egg from my Caesar salad is the salad not $6 cheaper??’ one wrote.

‘Poached eggs should always be 2 eggs. Was the menu item called ‘poached egg,’ said another.

‘They’re charging $6 to add avo now. I already had to take out the bacon and cheese from my meal but you didn’t minus those from the price,’ one commented.

‘When I go out for breakfast I get eggs benny but I always want to add a tomato, avo and a hash brown but then I remember that would cost $16 and that’s criminal,’ read another comment.

Others pointed out it wasn’t to do with the cost of the egg, but rather the cost of labour.

‘Cafe owner here. Single egg cost 0.36 but the cost of doing business is like $180,000 a year for staff, utilities & rent not inc cost of goods (raw food pricing),’ one said.

‘Because you’re paying for the egg, the person cooking the egg, the water, the power….,’ another commented.

It comes amid an egg shortage in Australia following the detection of bird flu in farms across the country.

Woolworths on Thursday brought in a two-pack per person limit on cartons of eggs due to a ‘delay’ in stock. 

The limits will be applied in stores across NSW, ACT and Victoria, with other states unaffected. 

‘Along with other retailers, we’re expecting a short-term delay in stock from one of our egg suppliers in NSW, ACT and Victoria, due to the temporary closure of one of their packing sheds,’ a Woolworths spokesman said.

‘Their supply is expected to recover over the next week as they ramp up operations at their other sites.’

Woolworths’ decision followed on the back of rival Coles which earlier imposed its own two carton limit.

Coles’ rationing applies across the country, with the exception of Western Australia.

Woolworths said its measure was a ‘precaution’ and anticipated it would soon be lifted.

‘Right now, the majority of customers are only buying one carton of eggs at a time, and there’s no reason that should change,’ the spokesperson said.

‘We encourage shoppers to be mindful of others and continue to only buy what they normally would.’

Avian flu has been confirmed at two farms in NSW and eight in Victoria.

Over one million birds are expected to be destroyed in Victoria due to the outbreak and NSW’s toll stands at more than 320,000. 

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