For many major restaurant brands like Subway and BJ's Restaurants, 2024 marks the final year before their commitments to source exclusively cage-free eggs come due.

Most of them had 10 years to fulfill these public pledges. (All company deadlines were self-imposed.) And in the next nine months, these popular restaurants will prove whether or not they honored the promises they made to their customers.

Because they’re running out of time. And with cage-free eggs gradually becoming the norm for producers and consumers—and in state and international laws—they’re running out of excuses.

The Humane League's Eggsposé consultants conducted outreach and research for years to keep these brands accountable. Some companies cited long timelines in defense of their slow progress and lack of transparency, as the deadline was for 2025.

But the time for fulfillment is now. 2024 is their last chance to make good on their promises to their guests—promises these companies promoted, before becoming publicity-shy.

If these restaurants only said they’d go cage-free to make headlines, they won’t meet their deadlines.