Chicken Tenders in Boston

8 restaurants in Boston list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is Victoria's Diner at $8.00. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Union Park Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken tenders in 214 other areas and compare them all on chicken tenders across United States. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 48 of the 214. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Little Dog Diner in Norfolk, VA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Lancaster, PA. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.35.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in Boston? Victoria's Diner, at $8.00 on 1024 Massachusetts Ave. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $8.35. That is $0.35 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.