Pulled Pork in Kansas City

3 restaurants in Kansas City list pulled pork on their menus. The cheapest is Scott’s Kitchen at $4.79. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $13.50 at Arthur Bryant's, so the two ends of the list are $8.71 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 pulled pork in 1 other area and compare them all on pulled pork across United States. The typical price there runs $18.95 at the median, so Kansas City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $15.00 at Beeliner Diner in Alexandria, VA. The nearest area with it is Alexandria, about 938 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest pulled pork in Kansas City? Scott’s Kitchen, at $4.79 on 11920 North Ambassador Drive. The same dish reaches $13.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.71.

What should pulled pork cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Kansas City 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 Alexandria, about 938 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $10.21 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.