Chicken Tenders in Columbia

5 restaurants in Columbia list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Man at $8.99. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Union Jacks, so the two ends of the list are $3.01 apart, which is 33% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 0 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track chicken tenders in 214 other areas and compare them all on chicken tenders across United States. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so Columbia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 157 of the 214. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Little Dog Diner in Norfolk, VA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Lancaster, PA. The nearest area with it is Elkridge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in Columbia? Pizza Man, at $8.99 on 5810 Robert Oliver Pl. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.01.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Columbia 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 Elkridge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. 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.