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Bacon price per pound

Sliced bacon, US city average. High-margin as a garnish, quietly expensive as an add-on, and one of the fastest ways to lose margin on a burger nobody repriced.

Also known as sliced bacon or streaky bacon.

September 2026 · US city average

$6.58

per lb

1 month
+0.4%
3 months
−3.5%
12 months
−7.5%

2024-01 to 2026-07

7.296.56Jan '24Jul '26

What the last 12 months did to a plate

Representative portions and volumes — substitute your own. The point isn't the exact figure, it's that a −7.5% move on one ingredient turns into a specific annual number on a specific dish, and that number is usually larger than it feels.

DishUsesCost todayChange per platePer year at 210/wk
Bacon add-on (2 slices)1.6 oz raw$0.66−$0.05−$583.13
BLT3 oz raw$1.23−$0.10−$442.55
Breakfast side (3 slices)2.4 oz raw$0.99−$0.08−$791.39
Carbonara2 oz raw$0.82−$0.07−$416.52

Volumes differ per row — each is a plausible weekly count for that dish. Computed from the BLS series above; your supplier price will differ by region, volume and grade.

What moves this price

  • Pork belly markets. Belly is a small share of the carcass with outsized demand, so it swings far more than pork overall.
  • Cold storage stocks. Frozen belly inventories are the shock absorber; when they run low, prices move sharply.
  • Seasonality. Summer BLT demand is a genuine annual pattern in belly pricing.

Buying notes

  • Slice count per pound is the number to specify. "14–18 count" and "18–22 count" are different products at the same price per pound, and the thinner one makes your two-slice add-on visibly meaner.
  • A bacon add-on priced once and never revisited is a classic slow leak. At a $2.00 upcharge it can go from a 70% margin to a 40% one without a single menu change — run it through the margin calculator.
  • Cooking in batches on sheet pans rather than to order both improves consistency and lets you measure real cooked yield once instead of guessing every service.

This is the national average. Yours is the one that matters.

Marji reads your actual supplier invoices, so you see what you paid — and which of your dishes crossed their margin target because of it. The national number is only useful for telling a market move apart from a vendor move.

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