Chicken Strips in El Cajon

3 restaurants in El Cajon list chicken strips on their menus. The cheapest is Franco's Giant Pizza at $7.99. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Grandstand Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 100% 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 chicken strips in 12 other areas and compare them all on chicken strips across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so El Cajon is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 12. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Senate Coney Island in Dearborn, MI, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Vancouver, WA. The nearest area with it is San Diego, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken strips in El Cajon? Franco's Giant Pizza, at $7.99 on 574 Jamacha Rd. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should chicken strips cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in El Cajon 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 San Diego, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $0.01 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.