As a part of the company’s commitment to animal welfare, Minnesota based Caribou Coffee has followed the path of many other chains and committed to using 100% cage-free eggs in all their products by 2025. The company previously made a commitment in 2015 to use 100% cage-free eggs in all their breakfast sandwiches by 2020, which they achieved.
Caribou Coffee, founded in 1992, has over 400 locations in the United States, and is quickly expanding into the Middle East.
“Caribou Coffee sources only cage-free eggs for our primary egg supply (eggs used in our All Day Breakfast Menu) in the United States, a commitment that we made in 2015 and achieved in 2020. We are now working to accelerate procurement of cage-free eggs in our primary and secondary supply globally and look forward to reaching 100% cage-free eggs by the end of 2025.” stated the chain in an revised animal welfare commitment
The commitment to cage-free has been in question multiple times as pledges have been made by companies, both large and small. In 2017, Larry Sadler (Vice President of animal welfare for the United Egg Producers) stated that he does believe restaurant chains will stick to their pledge of going to cage-free eggs.
"That will cost egg farmers and egg companies between 10 and 11 billion dollars. Now they have less than five years to do that. I have said in many of my presentations the last couple years that the amount of birds that need to be switched to cage-free, the cost to do it, and the amount of time they have to do it in is financially and logistically impossible to achieve," explained Chad Gregory (President of the United Egg Producers” at the 2020 Poultry Science Association virtual annual meeting.
