Chicken Nuggets in Malden

4 restaurants in Malden list chicken nuggets on their menus. The cheapest is Mar Chica Pizzeria at $4.50. The typical price across town is $6.49, and the dearest we found is $11.70 at Brother's Roast Beef & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.20 apart, which is 160% 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 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 Malden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 29 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 Lowell, about 20 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in Malden? Mar Chica Pizzeria, at $4.50 on 54 Pleasant St. The same dish reaches $11.70 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.20.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $6.49 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Malden 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 Lowell, about 20 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is $0.25 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.