Chicken Fried Rice in Indianapolis

3 restaurants in Indianapolis list chicken fried rice on their menus. The cheapest is Sushi House (Geist) at $4.95. The typical price across town is $10.00, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at Sushi Den, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 182% 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 fried rice in 6 other areas and compare them all on chicken fried rice across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Indianapolis is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Kona Grill - Alpharetta in Alpharetta, GA, and the highest best price is $9.25 in Jonesboro, AR. The nearest area with it is Sheboygan, about 280 mi away, where the best price is $8.04.

Where is the cheapest chicken fried rice in Indianapolis? Sushi House (Geist), at $4.95 on 11647 Fox Road. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should chicken fried rice cost here? About $10.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Indianapolis 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 Sheboygan, about 280 mi away, where the best price is $8.04. That is $3.09 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.