Those looking to order eggs with their Waffle House meal should now expect to pay a 50-cent surcharge per egg.

“While we hope these price fluctuations will be short-lived we cannot predict how long this shortage will last,” Waffle House said in a statement. “We are continuously monitoring egg prices and will adjust or remove the surcharge as market conditions allow.”

As the cost of eggs continues to rise, consumers are not only being impacting at grocery stores but paying more for breakfast restaurant meals.

The Waffle House restaurant chain is putting a 50 cent per egg surcharge in place temporarily due to the biggest bird flu outbreak in a decade.

Waffle House serves around 272 million eggs per year, according to its website, well surpassing even its titular waffles, of which it sells just 124 million. "We are continuously monitoring egg prices and will adjust or remove the surcharge as market conditions allow," the statement ended.

The restaurant chain, which serves breakfast all day, said it was adding the temporary 50-cent surcharge because the bird flu has caused a shortage in the egg supply.

Adam and Eve on a raft is costing a buck more these days at Waffle House. The rising cost of eggs has caused the diner chain to charge an additional 50 cents per egg at roughly 2,100 locations across the U.

Waffle House says temporary increase took effect on Monday and impacts all menus at the 24-hour chain's restaurants.

Waffle House announced it will be adding a 50-cent surcharge to all egg items sold at its more than 2,000 locations because of soaring egg prices caused by the bird flu. The surcharge went into effect Monday.

A national egg shortage and skyrocketing prices have led to Waffle House adding a surcharge on eggs to keep up with the lack of supply.

At a Waffle House in Atlanta, cooks were busy pouring waffle batter and flipping hash browns around noon on Tuesday when a message flashed on the two cash registers at the counter: “Due to the nationwide rise in the cost of eggs,