Piccata in Allen

3 restaurants in Allen list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Spazo Restaurant & Bar at $11.99, listed as Chicken Piccata Lunch. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Italian Villa Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $2.96 apart, which is 25% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Allen is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 154 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Plano, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Allen? Spazo Restaurant & Bar, at $11.99 on 1201 West McDermott Drive. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.96.

What should piccata cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Allen that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Plano, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $4.01 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.