Buffalo Chicken in Malden

3 restaurants in Malden list buffalo chicken on their menus. The cheapest is New York Pizza at $10.99. The typical price across town is $16.45, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at Malden's House of Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 55% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track buffalo chicken in 8 other areas and compare them all on buffalo chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $17.00 at the median, so Malden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Phil's 2 Pizza in Massapequa Park, NY, and the highest best price is $17.00 in Minneapolis, MN. The nearest area with it is Salem, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $15.99.

Where is the cheapest buffalo chicken in Malden? New York Pizza, at $10.99 on 421 Main St. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should buffalo chicken cost here? About $16.45 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Malden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Salem, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $15.99. That is $5.00 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.