Chicken Nuggets in Lowell

3 restaurants in Lowell list chicken nuggets on their menus. The cheapest is Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza at $4.25. The typical price across town is $6.99, and the dearest we found is $9.99 at Angelina's Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $5.74 apart, which is 135% 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 chicken nuggets in 32 other areas and compare them all on chicken nuggets across United States. The typical price there runs $8.15 at the median, so Lowell is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 26 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Westfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Malden, about 20 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in Lowell? Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza, at $4.25 on 131 E Merrimack St. The same dish reaches $9.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.74.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $6.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Lowell 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 Malden, about 20 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. 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.