Grilled Chicken in Long Island City

4 restaurants in Long Island City list grilled chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Market Pantry Eatery at $5.00. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $22.50 at Gyro Uno, so the two ends of the list are $17.50 apart, which is 350% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 grilled chicken in 93 other areas and compare them all on grilled chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Long Island City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 61 of the 93. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fresco Market & Catering in Caldwell, NJ, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Chelmsford, MA. The nearest area with it is Astoria, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.89.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken in Long Island City? Market Pantry Eatery, at $5.00. The same dish reaches $22.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.50.

What should grilled chicken cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Long Island City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 $6.89. That is $1.89 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.