Chicken Tenders in Des Moines

7 restaurants in Des Moines list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is Centro at $8.00. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Truman's KC Pizza Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 75% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge 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 Des Moines is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 61 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 West Des Moines, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in Des Moines? Centro, at $8.00 on 1003 Locust Street. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Des Moines that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 West Des Moines, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $0.50 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.