TYLER, Texas — A local favorite, Bryan’s Cheesecakes and Café is struggling to find one major ingredient for their popular cheesecake- eggs. Bryan says his shop uses 15 to 20 boxes of eggs a week. Each box has 5 dozen eggs. All that adds up.
"I was paying this time last year $15 for, are now $60. A lot of people are just really under the gun and paying those crazy prices." said, Bryan Mendez.
Crazy prices during one of the busiest times of the year. And with no eggs to bake with—Bryan has to send bakers home. The egg shortage is partially caused by the Bird Flu. Smith County Agriculture Agent Clint Perkins says it’s impacting egg production. He says east Texas is a big poultry producing area. He predicts this egg shortage will last through the end of the year.
"That's probably going to carry over into 2023 until they can get more chickens back into production." said, Clint Perkins.
In the meantime, Bryan and his team are removing some items from their menu and hoping they can get back to normal, serving cheesecake to east Texas like they’ve done for the last 30 years.