Grilled Chicken Sandwich in Des Moines

4 restaurants in Des Moines list grilled chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Centro at $7.50. The typical price across town is $8.74, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Captain Roy's, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 87% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 0 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track grilled chicken sandwich in 82 other areas and compare them all on grilled chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Des Moines is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 79 of the 82. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Giorgio's Pizza in Chester, PA, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Arlington, VA. The nearest area with it is Lincoln, about 167 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken sandwich in Des Moines? Centro, at $7.50 on 1003 Locust Street. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should grilled chicken sandwich cost here? About $8.74 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Des Moines that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Lincoln, about 167 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $2.49 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.