Fried Chicken Sandwich in Chapel Hill

3 restaurants in Chapel Hill list fried chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Sal's NY Pizza at $10.25. The typical price across town is $11.25, and the dearest we found is $15.95 at Breakaway Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $5.70 apart, which is 56% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track fried chicken sandwich in 9 other areas and compare them all on fried chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so Chapel Hill is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Sauce on Bowdoin in Boston, MA, and the highest best price is $16.50 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is Charleston, about 221 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest fried chicken sandwich in Chapel Hill? Sal's NY Pizza, at $10.25 on 50010 Governors Dr. The same dish reaches $15.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.70.

What should fried chicken sandwich cost here? About $11.25 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Chapel Hill that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 are more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Charleston, about 221 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $4.75 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.