A popular bakery has encouraged customers to bring their own eggs to be cooked alongside their order as a shortage of the popular staple hits Australia.
San Jose Place, which sits above Wynyard train station in Sydney’s CBD, made the suggestion on a sign posted on the counter.
Customers were told the number of eggs in their bacon and egg rolls would be reduced from two to one due to a shortage of the poultry product.
“Dear Customers, Due to egg shortage, there will only be one egg on the Bacon and Egg Biscuit for $6.50. We are sorry,” the sign read.
The sign then offered a suggestion to customers.
“(You can also bring your own eggs, lol)” it said.
With two eggs, the bacon and egg roll costs $7.
The shop owner, who only wanted to be known as Ly, said he can only get half the eggs he normally gets.
A popular bakery and takeaway restaurant in central Sydney has been forced to halve the amount of eggs in one of its favourite breakfast items.
On average, the store, 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 a million chickens are being culled due to an outbreak of bird flu.
Ly said that currently only 90 eggs are being delivered, half of what she normally receives.
I was hoping the shortage would end soon.
“I went to the fruit market yesterday, they told me four weeks but I don’t really know,” she told Daily Mail Australia.
The bird flu outbreak has so far led to the culling of around 1.5 million chickens in Australia, with Victoria being the worst hit state but farms also affected in the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales.
Faced with empty egg shelves, the two major supermarket chains have imposed limits on sales in some parts of the country.
Under normal circumstances, the San Jose Place bakery and takeaway near Wynyard station would order 180 eggs every three days, but they have currently been restricted to half that amount.
Woolworths has a limit of two packages per person for customers in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria.
Coles has restricted customers to two checkouts per person in all stores except Western Australia since early June.
Fast food giant McDonald’s has also been forced to shorten the time it offers its breakfast menu, which includes several egg options.
The menu now ends at 10.30 instead of the usual midday time.