Chicken Tenders in Los Angeles

14 restaurants in Los Angeles list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is Alessandros Pizza Italian Restaurant at $8.99. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Numero Uno Pizza (Mid-Wilshire), so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 111% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken tenders in 214 other areas and compare them all on chicken tenders across United States. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 24 of the 214. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Little Dog Diner in Norfolk, VA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Lancaster, PA. The nearest area with it is Glendale, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in Los Angeles? Alessandros Pizza Italian Restaurant, at $8.99 on 13714 1/2 Sherman Way. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 3 are 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 Glendale, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $2.00 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.