{"id":337,"date":"2025-03-19T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/ann-arbor-businesses-adapt-to-rising-egg-prices\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:32:22","slug":"ann-arbor-businesses-adapt-to-rising-egg-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/03\/19\/ann-arbor-businesses-adapt-to-rising-egg-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Arbor businesses adapt to rising egg prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As egg prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/egg-prices-bird-flu-inflation-stores-limit-purchases\/\">rise<\/a> nationwide, local business owners are finding ways to adapt to increased costs. The change in egg prices is largely due to an increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/bird-flu\/situation-summary\/index.html\">avian influenza outbreaks<\/a>,\u00a0 and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/mdard\/-\/media\/Project\/Websites\/mdard\/documents\/food-dairy\/laws\/Cage-Free-Egg-Law-Summary.pdf?rev=55ed2e91324348aba00269a126b01ea9&amp;hash=F656CF61A7780D52338F7560958EBDC2#:~:text=Public%20Act%20132%20of%202019,systems%20starting%20December%2031%2C%202024.\"> Michigan Cage-Free Egg Law<\/a> enacted Dec. 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Michigan Daily,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagekitchena2.com\/\"> <\/a>Georgia Panos, manager of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagekitchena2.com\/\">Village Kitchen of Ann Arbor<\/a>, said she was met with an unexpected response when the carrier could not fill her order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a shortage on Friday, February 14, where we ordered eggs, and the deliverer dropped three cases,\u201d Panos said. \u201cThen when I asked him, \u2018can you bring me three cases back?\u2019 he said, \u2018we don\u2019t have any more eggs\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LSA sophomore Ivan Dashkevich, vice president of projects for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apexconsulting.org\/index.html\"> APEX Consulting<\/a>, told The Daily he predicts general food costs will increase long-term due to the Cage-Free Law.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201c(The Cage-Free Law is) going to be here to stay, and I think that\u2019s going to be a fixed cost,\u201d Dashkevich said. \u201cFor businesses within the Ann Arbor space, I think we\u2019d see pastries going up in price, because you need the eggs to actually hold everything together. Some bread is probably going to be more expensive as well, and overall, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll go back to that low egg price.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dashkavich lives in a house with four other roommates and said the recent increase in egg prices have caused him to reconsider his shopping habits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The Cage-Free Law) was a little bit of a hit,\u201d Dashkavich said. \u201cI think we ended up scaling back our purchases from the 36 pack down to a 24 pack for that time. I think last time we went, it was closer to $7 or $8 and the price nearly doubled, so we just didn\u2019t buy eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Daily,<a href=\"https:\/\/iggyseggies.com\/\"> Iggy\u2019s Eggies<\/a> owner Eli Boyer said he based his business model around eggs as a low-cost staple and worries that a long-term increase in prices could negatively impact his business and increase the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe low and stable price of eggs is one of the reasons I got into this business,\u201d Boyer said. \u201cThat\u2019s my business case \u2014 working with an item that you can count on being a certain price forever, almost. Eggs are something that determine different cost of living metrics in our country, so it\u2019s definitely going to have some impact on that when such a staple item is fluctuating to such a great degree.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>In an interview with The Daily, Panos said increased egg prices have forced her to haggle with food distributors in an effort to save money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have Sysco, Gordon Foods and Miceli that I order food from once a week, and I have to negotiate with them,\u201d Panos said. \u201cThere\u2019s bidding wars. Yesterday, I had to wait to order the eggs until 4 p.m. because Sysco was trying to lower the prices, so I got the eggs for $79 per case, whereas Miceli had them for $110 per case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panos also said she is going to raise prices for menu items to compensate for high egg prices. Because she is cautious of upsetting customers, Panos said she is struggling to balance customer satisfaction and the best choice for her business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou really can\u2019t do what Waffle House is doing where they\u2019re gonna charge you $0.50 per egg \u2014it doesn\u2019t go here in a small restaurant, people are gonna get angry,\u201d Panos said. \u201cI have a new menu coming out next week. I added $1 to each breakfast item.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boyer is currently working with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexeconconsulting.com\/\"> Nexecon Consulting Group<\/a>, a student-run consulting organization through the Ross School of Business that works with a wide variety of businesses to improve sales and revenue. Boyer said he hopes to create a consistent relationship with an egg producer in the future to ensure a fixed price of eggs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThere is a certain point where your guest is going to become very price sensitive, and we\u2019re conscious of that,\u201d Boyer said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying not to overreact. We\u2019re trying to play the long game. We\u2019re trying to focus on finding a partnership with somebody in the state of Michigan, whether a collective or an egg farm, to be a dedicated partner, so creating more of a relationship there rather than your typical restaurant and vendor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Daily Staff Reporter Delilah Dakis can be reached at delilahd@umich.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As egg prices rise nationwide, local business owners are finding ways to adapt to increased costs. The change in egg prices is largely due to an increase in avian influenza outbreaks,\u00a0 and the Michigan Cage-Free Egg Law enacted Dec. 31, 2024. 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