North Carolina boy sells fresh eggs to bakery: ‘He saves me money and helps me,’ says owner
An 11-year-old child in North Carolina supplies a local bakery with farm-fresh eggs, and the bakery owner and budding entrepreneur benefit from their deal.
Courtney Johnson, owner of Sweet Anna’s Bakery in Dallas, North Carolina, appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Feb. 6, alongside 5th grader Rylen Robbins to discuss how their business relationship “egg -cellent” began.
Johnson said she has seen prices go up for all the ingredients she uses in her cooking. She knows the Robbins family, she said – and provided cakes and pastries for their birthday and Christmas parties.
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Rylen Robbins’ father posted on social media that they had a surplus of eggs for sale, Johnson continued.
“He had posted that Rylen Robbins had eggs, and egg prices kept going up every week and I couldn’t do it anymore, so I reached out and said, ‘I’m going take as much as you can give me,” she said.
“I reached out and said, ‘I’ll take as many as you can give me,'” Courtney Johnson said of Rylen Robbins’ eggs on ‘Fox and Friends.’ (FoxNews)
Robbins has 21 chickens. They produce “18 to 19” eggs a day, he said.
The family started receiving “too many eggs” from their hens, Robbins also said.
He added: “We had the brilliant idea to start selling them.”
Robbins’ eggs are a welcome relief for Johnson, who struggles with high ingredient prices.
(Johnson said she used to pay $2.42 for five dozen eggs — now prices can be as high as $6 or $7 a dozen, she noted.)
“The highest I’ve seen [eggs] was about $6 to $7 a dozen. They started to go down, but he [Robbins] is cheaper at three dollars a dozen.”
A year and a half ago, Johnson was paying $2.42 for five dozen eggs, she said.
When asked if she had to raise her prices in response, Johnson replied, “We raised. I try not to…. I try my best to find other ways to cut costs.”
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One response, in part, was Robbins’ fresh eggs for sale.
Robbins, who is in grade five, said her hens can produce around 18 to 19 eggs a day. (FoxNews)
“He saves me money and helps me, and I love helping him, so thank you very much, Rylen,” Johnson said.
Robbins replied, “Thanks for saving me some money.”
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Robbins has the dual goals of being “a firefighter and an NBA player” when he grows up, he said.
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His motivation comes from his “paw-paw” – his grandfather, he noted.
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