Eggs US – Price – Chart

question: why hasn't this had a side effect of raising food prices in general? a significant percentage of foodstuffs involve eggs.

It's starting to. Waffle House recently added an egg surcharge to their menu.

It certainly has. Raw chicken has noticeably gone up in price as well, and poultry is completely unavailable at some retailers.

But a lot of restaurants in my area have been price gouging under the guise of “inflation, it’s out of our control” and have much more room to absorb price increases, to a point.