Chicken Sandwich in Minneapolis

5 restaurants in Minneapolis list chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Diner at $8.25. The typical price across town is $14.95, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Umbra, so the two ends of the list are $9.75 apart, which is 118% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken sandwich in 26 other areas and compare them all on chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Minneapolis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 26. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fortune Express in Saint Louis, MO, and the highest best price is $10.99 in San Francisco, CA. The nearest area with it is Rockford, about 281 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest chicken sandwich in Minneapolis? Tony's Diner, at $8.25 on 1327 Southeast 4th Street. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.75.

What should chicken sandwich cost here? About $14.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Minneapolis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Rockford, about 281 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $2.70 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.