Chicken Kabob in Cambridge

7 restaurants in Cambridge list chicken kabob on their menus. The cheapest is Aram's #2 House of Pizza at $10.25. The typical price across town is $16.88, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Beauty's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.75 apart, which is 115% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 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 kabob in 21 other areas and compare them all on chicken kabob across United States. The typical price there runs $17.99 at the median, so Cambridge is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 17 of the 21. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $10.00 at Makarios in Birmingham, AL, and the highest best price is $18.70 in Abington, MA. The nearest area with it is Somerville, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken kabob in Cambridge? Aram's #2 House of Pizza, at $10.25 on 345 Cambridge Street. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.75.

What should chicken kabob cost here? About $16.88 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Cambridge that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Somerville, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $14.50. That is $4.25 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.