Chicken Gyro in Cincinnati

3 restaurants in Cincinnati list chicken gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Hook Fish & Chicken at $5.99. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Sebastian’s, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 67% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken gyro in 40 other areas and compare them all on chicken gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Cincinnati is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 37 of the 40. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Castello Pizza 2 in Columbus, OH, and the highest best price is $15.95 in Wildwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is Columbus, about 99 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken gyro in Cincinnati? Hook Fish & Chicken, at $5.99 on 1920 Linn Street. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should chicken gyro cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Cincinnati 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 Columbus, about 99 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is the same as 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.