Crispy Chicken Sandwich in Indianapolis

3 restaurants in Indianapolis list crispy chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Cugino's Pizza at $8.49. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at The Fountain Room, so the two ends of the list are $11.51 apart, which is 136% 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 crispy chicken sandwich in 9 other areas and compare them all on crispy chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.95 at the median, so Indianapolis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Maria's Lounge & Restaurant in Reading, PA, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Catonsville, MD. The nearest area with it is Milwaukee, about 239 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest crispy chicken sandwich in Indianapolis? Cugino's Pizza, at $8.49 on 5124 N Franklin Rd. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.51.

What should crispy chicken sandwich cost here? About $16.00 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 Milwaukee, about 239 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $0.50 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.