Fried Chicken Sandwich in Boston

7 restaurants in Boston list fried chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Sauce on Bowdoin at $8.99. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $22.99 at The Bell in Hand, so the two ends of the list are $14.00 apart, which is 156% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track fried chicken sandwich in 9 other areas and compare them all on fried chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Boston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.25 at Sal's NY Pizza in Chapel Hill, NC, and the highest best price is $16.50 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is Burlington, about 181 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest fried chicken sandwich in Boston? Sauce on Bowdoin, at $8.99 on 203 Bowdoin St. The same dish reaches $22.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.00.

What should fried chicken sandwich cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 7 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 Burlington, about 181 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $6.01 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.