Chicken Fried Rice in Calgary

4 restaurants in Calgary list chicken fried rice on their menus. The cheapest is Ramen Ninja at $12.95. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Clay Pot, so the two ends of the list are $3.05 apart, which is 24% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken fried rice in 7 other areas and compare them all on chicken fried rice across Canada. The typical price there runs $15.50 at the median, so Calgary is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.80 at Wan's Chinese Food in Ottawa, ON, and the highest best price is $12.99 in Regina, SK. The nearest area with it is Edmonton, about 278 km away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken fried rice in Calgary? Ramen Ninja, at $12.95 on 3820 Brentwood Road NW. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.05.

What should chicken fried rice cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Calgary that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 $0.04 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.