Chicken Fingers in Calgary

6 restaurants in Calgary list chicken fingers on their menus. The cheapest is Belmont Diner at $9.95. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $19.50 at Kensington Pub, so the two ends of the list are $9.55 apart, which is 96% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken fingers in 15 other areas and compare them all on chicken fingers across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Calgary is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 15. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.00 at Cambridge Restaurant in Cambridge, ON, and the highest best price is $16.99 in Kingston, ON. The nearest area with it is Edmonton, about 278 km away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken fingers in Calgary? Belmont Diner, at $9.95 on 10816, #244 Macleod Trail S. The same dish reaches $19.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.55.

What should chicken fingers cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Calgary that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Edmonton, about 278 km away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $3.04 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.