Chicken Nuggets in Albany

5 restaurants in Albany list chicken nuggets on their menus. The cheapest is MR HALAL- Chicken•Gyro•Falafel at $4.95. The typical price across town is $6.17, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at I Love New York Pizza - Albany, so the two ends of the list are $5.04 apart, which is 102% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken nuggets in 32 other areas and compare them all on chicken nuggets across United States. The typical price there runs $8.15 at the median, so Albany is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 30 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Westfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $5.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in Albany? MR HALAL- Chicken•Gyro•Falafel, at $4.95 on 520 Washington Ave. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.04.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $6.17 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Albany that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $5.25. That is $0.30 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.