The Associated Press published an article on February 13th titled “Breakfast is booming at US restaurants. Is it also contributing to high egg prices?”

From the article:

Breakfast is booming at U.S. eateries. First Watch, a restaurant chain that serves breakfast, brunch and lunch, nearly quadrupled its locations over the past decade to 570. Eggs Up Grill has 90 restaurants in nine southern states, up from 26 in 2018. Florida-based Another Broken Egg Café celebrated its 100th restaurant last year.

Fast-food chains are also adding more breakfast items. Starbucks, which launched egg bites in 2017, now has a breakfast menu with 12 separate items containing eggs. Wendy’s reintroduced breakfast in 2020 and offers 10 items with eggs.

Three breakfast-driven chains are expanding in Montgomery County. As mentioned in the above paragraphs, First Watch is expanding, and that has included Montgomery County. It opened its first in the area in 2016, and its latest, in North Wales, opened in January 2024.

Nudy’s Cafe, a homegrown chain that started on the Main Line, discussed its expansion plan with The Philadelphia Business Journal in January 2024. It has opened 15 locations in the region and looks to open two more a year moving forward. One targeted location is the Plymouth Meeting area.

In a 2024 article with FSR Magazine, Turning Point Restaurants, which operates and franchises the breakfast and lunch eateries, shared that it hopes to have 40 locations by the end of 2025. It has 29 open restaurants, with the recent addition of Collegeville in early February.

You can read the full AP article here.