LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – If you are out grocery shopping for yourself or your family, you are likely coming across empty shelves in the egg aisle or are facing sticker shock.
However, the egg shortage is not just impacting families but businesses who rely on them.
At the Omelet House near Charleston Blvd. and Rancho Drive there is constant scrambling, flipping, or preparing for the next breakfast order.
“We are six egg omelets we are on the large size I don’t want anybody leaving my place hungry,” owner Kevin Mills said.
Even if the customers leave with their stomachs full, Mills is still hungry for a solution to the egg shortage.
In the last couple of weeks his stock has shortened, and he said it made him very “nervous.”
“I don’t rest until I have an adequate supply I can’t rest,” Mills said.
Mills tells FOX5, although other restaurants may increase their price for eggs, he refuses to put that on his customers.
“Nope I’m not going to do that that’s why I’m managing a restaurant that’s my job, to source the product,” Mills said.
Between all three locations of the breakfast joint, Mills said he goes through 3,000 eggs a day.
Before the bird flu caused egg prices to spike, Mills was getting a dozen eggs for $1.50, now those wholesale prices are at $6.00 a dozen.
However, Mills is not putting all his eggs in one basket, he tells FOX5 he is willing to drive anywhere to find eggs. He goes from grocery stores to Costco to get his supply for now.
“I have 50 employees at this location only it’s my obligation to not only keep myself and employees going and I can’t see an option where I am not in business so whatever I have to do, if I have to drive to Utah or California or Arizona to pick up a load of eggs that’s what I’ll have to do.” Mills said.
Before Mills has to cross state lines, he said he has been speaking with Gov. Joe Lombardo on bringing in a new bill that would allow non-caged eggs to be sold.
Mills worries what would happen if there is not a fix in the legislature.
“It would be a strain on every consumer,” Mills said.
Right now, Nevada law allows retailers to sell cage free eggs which means the birds can’t be kept in confined laying conditions.
Assembly bill 171 would give the state’s agriculture director to temporarily suspend the ban on conventional eggs to give Nevadans access to a lower priced alternative.
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