Chicken Sandwich in Albany

6 restaurants in Albany list chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Halal Express Chicken & Gyros at $5.49. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $8.99 at New Yorker Pizzeria & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 64% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken sandwich in 26 other areas and compare them all on chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Albany is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 23 of the 26. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fortune Express in Saint Louis, MO, and the highest best price is $10.99 in San Francisco, CA. The nearest area with it is Jamaica, about 136 mi away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken sandwich in Albany? Halal Express Chicken & Gyros, at $5.49 on 615 Clinton Ave. The same dish reaches $8.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should chicken sandwich cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Albany that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Jamaica, about 136 mi away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $0.01 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.