Chicken Hoagie in Buffalo

10 restaurants in Buffalo list chicken hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Ricota's Pizza at $6.99. The typical price across town is $9.49, and the dearest we found is $14.29 at Wise Guys Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.30 apart, which is 104% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

Buffalo is the only area where we track chicken hoagie at the moment, so there is no other town to set these prices against yet.

Where is the cheapest chicken hoagie in Buffalo? Ricota's Pizza, at $6.99 on 206 Elk St. The same dish reaches $14.29 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.30.

What should chicken hoagie cost here? About $9.49 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Buffalo 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.

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.