Piccata in Frederick

3 restaurants in Frederick list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Hero's at $9.95, listed as Chicken Piccata Lunch. The typical price across town is $17.75, and the dearest we found is $23.99 at New York J&P Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $14.04 apart, which is 141% 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 piccata in 157 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Frederick is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 143 of the 157. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Arlington, about 38 mi away, where the best price is $13.95.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Frederick? Hero's, at $9.95 on 193 Thomas Johnson Dr. The same dish reaches $23.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.04.

What should piccata cost here? About $17.75 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Frederick 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 Arlington, about 38 mi away, where the best price is $13.95. That is $4.00 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.