Chicken Fingers in Long Island City

6 restaurants in Long Island City list chicken fingers on their menus. The cheapest is Blinks Deli & Pizza at $7.00. The typical price across town is $10.95, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Gracie's Diner, so the two ends of the list are $10.95 apart, which is 156% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track chicken fingers in 270 other areas and compare them all on chicken fingers across United States. The typical price there runs $11.50 at the median, so Long Island City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 179 of the 270. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Ozzys Breakfast & Grill II in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $15.00 in Lancaster, NY. The nearest area with it is Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken fingers in Long Island City? Blinks Deli & Pizza, at $7.00 on 43-01 35th St. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.95.

What should chicken fingers cost here? About $10.95 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Long Island 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 Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.25. That is $0.25 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.