Choice beef chuck tender wholesale price — $5.50 / lb
quoted September 21, 2026
Choice beef chuck tender is quoted at $5.50 / lb in the week of September 21, 2026. That is the lowest wholesale quote we recorded that week from the single New York distributor we track — not a market average, and not an official terminal quotation. This item is quoted by the pound, as invoiced.
Price history
11 weekly quotes over 3M · lowest wholesale price observed, per lb
Over the last 12 months
The price has not moved once in our 19 weekly quotes: choice beef chuck tender has been quoted at $5.50 / lb every week since April 27, 2026.
- Low
- $5.50
- High
- $5.50
- Average
- $5.50
- Quotes
- 19
About Choice beef chuck tender
USDA Choice is the middle of the three grades a foodservice buyer normally sees, above Select and below Prime, and it is assigned on marbling in the ribeye. Because grading happens on the carcass, it applies to every cut taken off that animal, which is why a Choice chuck tender and a Choice short loin share a grade and nothing else. In this group the cut does the work, not the grade: rib, short loin and hanger are steak muscles, chuck, top round and eye round are slicing and braising muscles.
Buying notes
These are quoted per pound on an average case weight, and the same muscle appears here in more than one state, bone-in against bone-out and peeled against untrimmed, with the price gap covering the yield loss and the butchery. Ask what the case actually weighed before you compare two quotes, because the average is the specification, not a guarantee.
Frequently asked questions about Choice beef chuck tender
How much does choice beef chuck tender cost wholesale in New York?
Choice beef chuck tender is quoted at $5.50 / lb in the week of September 21, 2026, the lowest wholesale quote we recorded that week. This item is quoted by the pound, as invoiced.
What is the price per pound of choice beef chuck tender?
$5.50 / lb. This item is invoiced by the pound, so the quote is already a price per pound — we did not derive it from a case weight.
Are these the official Hunts Point prices?
No. $5.50 / lb is the lowest of 19 weekly quotes we recorded from one distributor serving New York. The USDA publishes the official New York terminal market quotations; we link to them from our methodology page.