Chicken Salad Sandwich in Birmingham

3 restaurants in Birmingham list chicken salad sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Bama Hotdogs at $8.30. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Urban Cookhouse, so the two ends of the list are $3.70 apart, which is 45% 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 salad sandwich in 16 other areas and compare them all on chicken salad sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $9.25 at the median, so Birmingham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 16. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.25 at Johnny's Pizza in Prospect Park, PA, and the highest best price is $10.94 in Boothwyn, PA. The nearest area with it is Atlanta, about 134 mi away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken salad sandwich in Birmingham? Bama Hotdogs, at $8.30 on 1613 Pinson Valley Parkway. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.70.

What should chicken salad sandwich cost here? About $10.99 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 Atlanta, about 134 mi away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $1.20 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.