The restaurant chains hiked prices for menu items containing eggs earlier this year as shortages from to bird flu outbreaks pushed the cost of a dozen eggs to a record high in March.

Some look to Waffle House to gauge how bad a storm will be. Now it seems the chain is also giving hints about egg prices nationwide.

Waffle House customers no longer have to pay extra for eggs. The 2,000-unit breakfast chain on Monday announced that it has lifted its 50-cent per-egg surcharge, which it instituted in February to help manage sky-high egg prices.