Chicken Tenders in East Lansing

4 restaurants in East Lansing list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is Swagath Indian Cuisine at $9.95. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Side Bar East Lansing, so the two ends of the list are $6.05 apart, which is 61% 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 tenders in 215 other areas and compare them all on chicken tenders across United States. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so East Lansing is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 215. 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 Ann Arbor, about 50 mi away, where the best price is $9.49.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in East Lansing? Swagath Indian Cuisine, at $9.95 on 1060 Trowbridge Rd #3. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.05.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in East Lansing 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 Ann Arbor, about 50 mi away, where the best price is $9.49. That is $0.46 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.