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Jun 05, 2025
BOSTON, MA — Thursday, June 5, 2025 —Toast (NYSE: TOST), the all-in-one digital platform built for restaurants, released its Q1 2025 Restaurant Trends Report, providing insight into the state of the U.S. restaurant industry through an analysis of aggregated data from selected cohorts of restaurants and in select U.S. states on the Toast platform, which serves approximately 140,000 restaurant locations as of March 31, 2025. This report also includes omelette pricing from April 2025 for the latest takeaways from restaurant menus.View the full report on Data by Toast.
Toast Benchmarking powers the Restaurant Trends Report's menu insights. This tool leverages AI-based classification and allows users to compare restaurant and menu category performance against aggregated data from peer Toast restaurants.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in the U.S. since 2022 have caused significant egg price volatility. These outbreaks led to the culling of millions of hens, resulting in a supply shock and impacting the egg market.
As supply plummeted, restaurant operators grappled with the rising cost of eggs just like consumers. While prices temporarily stabilized as farmers rebuilt their flocks, subsequent waves of avian flu in 2023 and 2024 triggered more price volatility.
Many businesses were forced to absorb higher costs or adjust recipes and menu offerings. Some restaurants added egg fees, while others cut back on the number of eggs in dishes, or switched to cheaper alternatives, like liquid eggs.
Aside from switching to liquid eggs, there aren’t many options to keep costs low for restaurants that serve omelettes. The price of omelettes on menus at Toast restaurants in the U.S. has climbed from a median price of $13.24 in March 2023 to $14.71 in April 2025.
Restaurant omelette prices showed a steady increase from January to April 2025. Month-over-month price increases ranged from 0.5% to 1.2% each month between January and April.
In April 2025, year-over-year (YoY) omelette prices rose 5.4% when compared to April 2024. While wholesale egg prices have fallen compared to retail prices consumers pay at the grocery store, omelette prices remain sky high on restaurant menus.
For more insights including omelette prices by state, breakfast trends, and tipping data, read the full Restaurant Trends Report on Data by Toast.
About the Restaurant Trends Report:
The Restaurant Trends Report, powered by Toast, uncovers key trends across the restaurant industry through aggregated sales data from a selection of cohorts of restaurants on the Toast platform, which has approximately 140,000 locations as of March 31, 2025. This information is provided for general informational purposes only, and publication does not constitute an endorsement. Toast does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of any information, text, graphics, links, or other items contained within this content. Individual results may vary. Toast does not guarantee you will achieve any specific results if you follow any advice herein. It may be advisable for you to consult with a professional such as a lawyer, accountant, or business advisor for advice specific to your situation. The Restaurant Trends Report is not indicative of the operational performance of Toast or its reported financial metrics.
About Toast
Toast [NYSE: TOST] is a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform purpose-built for the entire restaurant community. Toast provides a comprehensive platform of software as a service (SaaS) products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business across point of sale, payments, operations, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management. We serve as the restaurant operating system, connecting front of house and back of house operations across service models including dine-in, takeout, delivery, catering, and retail. Toast helps restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences. For more information, visit www.toasttab.com.
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