Commercial bakers are feeling the heat as a nationwide egg shortage drives up wholesale prices for the key ingredient.
A ban on battery caged hens has left some supermarket shelves empty and prompted cartons to be rationed. The Egg Producers Federation has said more than 75 percent of chicken farmers have had to change their farming methods or their career because of the ban.
Wellington-based Nada Bakery manager Michael Gray said eggs were a commodity product and the shortage had exacerbated already high prices.
When "positive" changes positively cost people more.