BBQ Chicken in Charlotte

3 restaurants in Charlotte list BBQ chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Mix Grill & Wings at $7.59. The typical price across town is $17.50, and the dearest we found is $20.35 at Jet's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $12.76 apart, which is 168% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track BBQ chicken in 8 other areas and compare them all on BBQ chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $17.00 at the median, so Charlotte is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano in Naperville, IL, and the highest best price is $17.50 in Grand Rapids, MI. The nearest area with it is Chicago, about 591 mi away, where the best price is $7.69.

Where is the cheapest BBQ chicken in Charlotte? Mix Grill & Wings, at $7.59 on 1540 West Boulevard. The same dish reaches $20.35 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.76.

What should BBQ chicken cost here? About $17.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Charlotte that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Chicago, about 591 mi away, where the best price is $7.69. That is $0.10 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.