Chicken Fingers in Des Moines

3 restaurants in Des Moines list chicken fingers on their menus. The cheapest is Waveland Cafe at $5.50. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Iowa Taproom, so the two ends of the list are $2.50 apart, which is 45% 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 fingers in 270 other areas and compare them all on chicken fingers across United States. The typical price there runs $11.50 at the median, so Des Moines is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 270 of the 270. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Ozzys Breakfast & Grill II in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $15.00 in Lancaster, NY. The nearest area with it is Roselle, about 286 mi away, where the best price is $9.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken fingers in Des Moines? Waveland Cafe, at $5.50 on 4708 University Avenue. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.50.

What should chicken fingers cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Des Moines 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 Roselle, about 286 mi away, where the best price is $9.25. That is $3.75 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.