Chicken Taco in Buffalo

9 restaurants in Buffalo list chicken taco on their menus. The cheapest is Desi's Pizzeria at $6.49. The typical price across town is $7.95, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Pine Ridge Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 54% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken taco in 1 other area and compare them all on chicken taco across United States. The typical price there runs $8.50 at the median, so Buffalo is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.75 at Joe's New York Style Pizza in Tonawanda, NY. The nearest area with it is Tonawanda, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.75.

Where is the cheapest chicken taco in Buffalo? Desi's Pizzeria, at $6.49 on 1816 Clinton St. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should chicken taco cost here? About $7.95 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Buffalo that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Tonawanda, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.75. That is $0.26 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.