Sign at bakery shows the egg shortage is depriving city breakfasters

A popular bakery has encouraged customers to bring their own eggs to be cooked with their order as a shortage of the popular food staple hits Australia.  

San Jose Place, which is located above Wynyard train station in Sydney‘s CBD, made the suggestion in a sign raised at the counter.

Customers were informed that the number of eggs in their bacon and egg roll would be slashed from two to one due to a shortage in the poultry product.

‘Dear customers. Due to the egg shortage, there’ll be only 1 egg in the bacon-egg roll for $6.50. We are sorry,’ the sign read.

The sign then offered a suggestion to customers. 

‘(You can BYO eggs too LOLS),’ it read. 

With two eggs, the bacon and egg roll costs $7. 

The business owner, who only wanted to be known as Ly, said he can only get half the eggs he normally gets delivered.

On average the shop, which also bakes quiches and uses eggs in other offerings, orders 180 eggs every three days.

However, egg shortages have hit the country as more than one million chickens are culled due to an outbreak of bird flu.

Ly said only 90 eggs are currently being delivered – half of what he normally takes.

He hoped the shortage would soon be over.

‘I went to the fruit market yesterday they say four weeks but I really don’t know,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

So far the outbreak of bird flu has led to the the culling of about 1.5million chickens in Australia with Victoria being the most affected state but farms also affected in the ACT and NSW.

With egg shelves being cleared out, the two major supermarket chains have imposed limits on sales in some parts of the country.

Woolworths has a two-pack limit per person for customers in NSW, the ACT and Victoria.

Coles has restricted customers to two cartons each at all stores except in Western Australia since early June.

Fast food giant McDonald’s has also been forced to shorten the time if offers its breakfast menu, which has a number of egg offerings. 

The menu at now finished at 10.30am instead of the normal midday cut-off.

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