Chicken Nuggets in Darby

4 restaurants in Darby list chicken nuggets on their menus. The cheapest is Main Street Pizza at $4.25. The typical price across town is $5.75, and the dearest we found is $6.99 at Al Forno Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $2.74 apart, which is 64% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 chicken nuggets in 32 other areas and compare them all on chicken nuggets across United States. The typical price there runs $8.15 at the median, so Darby is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 32 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Westfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Upper Darby, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in Darby? Main Street Pizza, at $4.25 on 1300 Main St. The same dish reaches $6.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.74.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $5.75 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Darby 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 Upper Darby, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.25. That is $1.00 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.