Buffalo Chicken Sandwich in Durham

3 restaurants in Durham list buffalo chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Pop's Backdoor at $9.95. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $15.50 at Maverick's Smokehouse and Taproom, so the two ends of the list are $5.55 apart, which is 56% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track buffalo chicken sandwich in 13 other areas and compare them all on buffalo chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $13.99 at the median, so Durham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.95 at Circle Pizza in Madison, CT, and the highest best price is $13.75 in Wildwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is Cary, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest buffalo chicken sandwich in Durham? Pop's Backdoor, at $9.95 on 3710 Shannon Rd. The same dish reaches $15.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.55.

What should buffalo chicken sandwich cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Durham that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Cary, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $2.04 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.