Chicken Strips in Des Moines

4 restaurants in Des Moines list chicken strips on their menus. The cheapest is Zombie Burger + Bird at $7.50. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Iowa Taproom, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 87% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken strips in 12 other areas and compare them all on chicken strips across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Des Moines is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 of the 12. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Senate Coney Island in Dearborn, MI, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Vancouver, WA. The nearest area with it is Appleton, about 322 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken strips in Des Moines? Zombie Burger + Bird, at $7.50 on 300 East Grand Avenue. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should chicken strips cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Des Moines that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Appleton, about 322 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $1.50 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.