Building diners’ trust is no longer optional. It’s the core competitive challenge. Diners today increasingly judge restaurants on more than their claims about how their products are sourced. They also want to know whether those claims hold up, and whether their practices match their messaging. Cage-free commitments are both public and verifiable, making them one of the clearest ways diners can see whether a restaurant keeps its word.
Our annual Eggsposé series evaluates the food industry on its progress toward 100% cage-free egg sourcing in the US. This edition focuses on restaurants. All of these restaurants made public animal welfare commitments years ago, most with deadlines that have now passed. Most of them followed through. But some removed their policies, while others stopped reporting their progress altogether.
The cage-free transition is well underway, and the dozens of restaurants that completed it have demonstrated that it works.
