While no one can yet guarantee that Farmer Boys is coming to Maricopa, one local farm already has connections with the SoCal burger joint that announced plans to expand here this month.

Hickman’s Family Farms, which has a chicken ranch at Murphy and Peters-and-Nall Roads in the city outskirts, has been the primary egg supplier for the 100-plus Farmer Boys restaurants in Arizona, California and Nevada for nearly a decade.

In a video last year about working with Farmer Boys, Hickman’s President and CEO Glenn Hickman said his farms began working with the restaurant after opening a distribution center in southern California. Farmer Boys is based in Riverside.

“We walked into a Farmer Boys to get a hamburger and noticed that they had a really exciting and extensive breakfast offering. We’ve been servicing them ever since with California eggs,” Hickman said.

Despite a bird flu outbreak that led to the company culling 1.1 million hens, that relationship is set to continue if Farmer Boys follows through the city’s development process. (Find our interview with Glenn Hickman here.)

Eggs are a feature of the restaurant’s breakfast, lunch and dinner menus. This includes their egg sandwiches, four styles of omelet and a chopped cobb salad.