Fried Chicken in Milwaukee

5 restaurants in Milwaukee list fried chicken on their menus. The cheapest is China Gourmet at $6.50. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at Honeypie, so the two ends of the list are $12.50 apart, which is 192% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track fried chicken in 7 other areas and compare them all on fried chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $13.50 at the median, so Milwaukee is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Mexican Radio in Oklahoma City, OK, and the highest best price is $13.20 in Rockford, IL. The nearest area with it is Rockford, about 78 mi away, where the best price is $13.20.

Where is the cheapest fried chicken in Milwaukee? China Gourmet, at $6.50 on 117 East Wells Street. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.50.

What should fried chicken cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Milwaukee 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 Rockford, about 78 mi away, where the best price is $13.20. That is $6.70 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.