Chicken Nuggets in Baltimore

20 restaurants in Baltimore list chicken nuggets on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza los Gios at $4.50. The typical price across town is $8.49, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Stoko's Carry Out, so the two ends of the list are $8.49 apart, which is 189% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 6 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 $8.00 at the median, so Baltimore is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 13 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 Halethorpe, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in Baltimore? Pizza los Gios, at $4.50 on 2435 St Paul St. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.49.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $8.49 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Halethorpe, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $3.49 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.