Falafel in New Brunswick

4 restaurants in New Brunswick list falafel on their menus. The cheapest is Sam's Chicken & Pizza at $5.95. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $8.40 at The Original Picken Chicken, so the two ends of the list are $2.45 apart, which is 41% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track falafel in 11 other areas and compare them all on falafel across United States. The typical price there runs $10.50 at the median, so New Brunswick is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 10 of the 11. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Falafel And Amba Restaurant in Sterling Heights, MI, and the highest best price is $11.00 in Cambridge, MA. The nearest area with it is Troy, about 160 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest falafel in New Brunswick? Sam's Chicken & Pizza, at $5.95 on 169 French St. The same dish reaches $8.40 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.45.

What should falafel cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in New Brunswick 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 Troy, about 160 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $2.04 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.