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Allen Brothers

Mid — national foodservice and direct-to-consumer distribution from Chicago.

Chicago, Illinois, USA

CommodityVerified

allenbrothers.com ↗verification source ↗

Commodity

Quality assessment

A DISTRIBUTOR, and the rubric scores it as one. The buying standard is real — Prime and upper-Choice only, a stated 250-mile radius around the plants — but the farms are a category ('small Midwest family farms'), not names, and Allen Brothers neither raises nor finishes anything. Naming Allen Brothers on a menu tells a diner who delivered the steak, not who raised it.

Scale
Mid — national foodservice and direct-to-consumer distribution from Chicago.
Feed & inputs
UNKNOWN — not published; selection is on USDA grade, which is a marbling outcome.
Animal welfare
UNKNOWN — set by unnamed upstream producers.
Environmental
Nothing located.
Transparency
MEDIUM — candid that it sources rather than raises, and specific about grade and radius; entirely silent on which farms.

Caveats

The Kobe merchant authorisation is a VENUE-CLASS credential and by farm-quality-model-v1 §2 it never touches a farm score; recorded as fact, excluded from cert_score. Two USDA Organic rows matching the string 'Allen Brothers' (Dairyland Produce dba Allen Brothers, Mattapoisett MA — HANDLING; Allen Brothers Inc, Westminster VT — CROPS) are DIFFERENT LEGAL ENTITIES and are excluded as NOT EVIDENCED, not counted against this operation.

Chicago meat purveyor and distributor operating since 1893. Buys top-tier USDA Choice, USDA Prime and wagyu from producers worldwide, hand-cuts and ages it, and ships nationally to restaurants and consumers.

Products

beefwagyuporklambpoultryseafood

Practices

selects USDA Prime and upper two-thirds USDA Choicestates its Prime/Choice beef comes from small Midwest family farms typically within 250 miles of the plantshand-cutting by in-house butchers

Certifications

Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association authorised merchant (retail/wholesale), Chicago IL, certificate 1639

Registry match

Matched to a public certification registry — a separate record, not a Terroir-verified supplier relationship.

Served at

Sources

What the quality assessment above is built on.