Current UCUI
68/100
Moderate-High Uncertainty
+4 points from prior reading
Potato Market Intelligence
Frozen Fries Price Per Pound Foodservice
Frozen fries price per pound foodservice converts supplier or distributor offers to a common net-weight basis while preserving cut, coating, case configuration, freight, rebates, and service. QSR buyers can then connect unit price with breakage, hold time, waste, and servings to compare cost per saleable portion.
Market Data
How to read this market
Frozen-fries price-per-pound foodservice data converts supplier or distributor offers to a common net-weight basis while preserving cut, coating, grade, case configuration, usable yield, rebates, freight, and service terms. The market object is the foodservice fry pound matched to its actual restaurant performance and delivered commercial basis.
Use the data to compare case formats and products across pounds, kilograms, or other units and then connect unit price with breakage, hold time, oil absorption, waste, and servings per pound. Avoid treating simple weight conversion as a complete value comparison.
Data Module
Frozen Fries Price per Pound Foodservice
Market objectnormalized foodservice fry unit
Primary measurenet delivered price per pound
Key dimensionscut, coating, case, supplier
Commercial useproduct and supplier comparison
Performance contextyield, hold, waste, servings
Compare withrebates, freight, menu use
Analysis
Why this matters
A lower price per pound can create higher restaurant cost when breakage, waste, poor hold performance, or fewer usable servings offset the discount. Premium coatings or higher-solids products can reverse the ranking.
Commercial interpretation should compare cost per saleable serving for the intended menu use, while retaining price per pound as the clean purchasing benchmark.
Signal 01
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index
UCUI translates crop and market complexity into a simple uncertainty signal. Higher readings indicate greater uncertainty—not necessarily higher prices.
Understand uncertainty. Anticipate risk. Act earlier.
UCUI is designed to analyze potato-industry publications and data signals across regions, varieties, weather, disease, storage, supply, and demand.
WeatherHigh
DiseaseHigh
StorageMedium
SupplyMedium
Single-day snapshot based on a scan of 11,500+ web and social signals. Get historical and real-time data by clicking the button below.
The MassGain Daily
Today’s market analysis.
A daily editorial synthesis of physical potato data, crop signals, market reporting, and what participants should watch next.
September 16, 2026Latest MassGain publication
Potato market steady for now; Russia’s smaller crop is the salient risk
Spot prices are flat and USDA terminal reports read ‘market steady,’ but a renewed forecast for a smaller Russian harvest and recent regional harvest stress leave seasonal import timing and storage losses as the key uncertainty.
Signal 02
MassGain Potato Index
Independent physical-pricing intelligence and market-trend analysis for procurement, forecasting, contracting, and scenario planning.
Core Russet Carton Median
312.45 USD/MT
Latest qualifying physical-market observation
+4.75 (+1.55%)
Price discovery for the physical potato market
MPI is designed to track physical pricing data, price trends, deltas, and divergences across regions and potato types.
Series window45 days
Current public coverageCore russet cartons
Primary source basisQualifying USDA physical rows
UnitUSD per metric tonne
Single-day snapshot based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varieties by clicking the button below.
Signal 03
MassGain Spot Reference
An independent spot reference designed for price discovery, contract discussions, procurement comparisons, and risk modeling.
Russet Burbank — U.S. Midsize
305 USD/MT
Demonstration reference format
+1.6% WoW · Confidence: High
A trusted benchmark for pricing, contracts, and risk
MSR is intended to use real transactions and verifiable physical-market data to support negotiations, price checks, contracting, and risk models.
ProductRusset Burbank
SpecificationU.S. midsize, 40–70 count
Reference typePhysical spot benchmark
StatusIn development
Based on most recent 45 days worth of data. Limited to US Russets only. Get more complete, global data about all varities by clicking the button below. Full access also includes historical data -- including depreciated NYMEX/CBOE/EEX spot references -- projections, trends, and AI-driven insights.
The MassGain Product Ladder
From insight to intelligence to action
Four integrated products built for the physical potato market, delivered through public pages, reports, exports, dashboards, and API access.
1
Content
Original research, commentary, aggregated news, and market updates.
- What matters right now?
- What is happening out there?
2
UCUI™
Usable Crop Uncertainty Index: an AI-powered signal of crop risk and market uncertainty.
- Understand uncertainty
- Anticipate risk
- Act earlier
3
MPI™
MassGain Potato Index: independent physical-pricing intelligence and trend analysis.
- Price discovery
- Regional trends
- Procurement planning
4
MSR™
MassGain Spot Reference: an independent benchmark for price discovery and risk modeling.
- Contracts
- Negotiations
- Risk models
Content + UCUI + MPI + MSR + API access
Get historical series, regional detail, constituent data, exports, alerts, and direct data access.
Overview
Who is this for?
This page is for QSR and restaurant procurement teams, foodservice distributors, and finance leaders that need frozen-fries pricing expressed per pound. A per-pound comparison is useful only when net weight, case configuration, cut, coating, grade, usable yield, rebates, freight, and service terms are aligned. MassGain provides the enterprise framework needed to normalize supplier and distributor offers without losing product performance.
The suite can convert cases, kilograms, and other units into a consistent pound basis and then add delivered charges and subtract rebates or allowances. It can compare product uptake, breakage, hold time, oil absorption, waste, and servings per pound. Procurement can determine whether a premium coated or higher-solids product creates better restaurant economics. Finance can forecast food cost. Distributors can benchmark branches and customer tiers.
MassGain does not assume the lowest per-pound invoice price is the best value. It connects price with usable servings, menu requirements, contracts, logistics, and raw-potato markets so buyers can compare total commercial performance rather than a simplified unit conversion.
Use Case
A QSR chain compares an uncoated fry at $1.18 per pound with a coated fry at $1.27. MassGain includes longer hold time, lower waste, servings per pound, freight, and rebates. The coated product is more expensive by weight but cheaper per saleable serving during peak periods.
FAQs
How is foodservice fry price per pound calculated?
Divide the net case price by net pounds after applying the agreed freight, rebate, and allowance basis.
Why is per-pound price not enough?
Cut, coating, breakage, oil, hold time, waste, and servings can change usable restaurant value.
How does MassGain compare products?
It combines normalized price with contracts, logistics, performance, menu use, and physical potato-market context.
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Data and Methodology
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