Chicken Kabob in Birmingham

3 restaurants in Birmingham list chicken kabob on their menus. The cheapest is Makarios at $10.00. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at The Purple Onion, so the two ends of the list are $7.99 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track chicken kabob in 21 other areas and compare them all on chicken kabob across United States. The typical price there runs $17.99 at the median, so Birmingham is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 15 of the 21. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.25 at Aram's #2 House of Pizza in Cambridge, MA, and the highest best price is $18.70 in Abington, MA. The nearest area with it is Worcester, about 1014 mi away, where the best price is $13.49.

Where is the cheapest chicken kabob in Birmingham? Makarios, at $10.00. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.99.

What should chicken kabob cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Birmingham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Worcester, about 1014 mi away, where the best price is $13.49. 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.