Chicken Sandwich in Durham

4 restaurants in Durham list chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Waffle House at $6.50. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Italian Pizzeria (Hillsborough), so the two ends of the list are $6.49 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 sandwich in 26 other areas and compare them all on chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Durham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 26. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fortune Express in Saint Louis, MO, and the highest best price is $10.99 in San Francisco, CA. The nearest area with it is Charlotte, about 121 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken sandwich in Durham? Waffle House, at $6.50 on 114 State Highway 54. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.49.

What should chicken sandwich cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Durham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Charlotte, about 121 mi away, where the best price is $6.50. That is the same as 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.