Chicken Scampi in New City

3 restaurants in New City list chicken scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Danny's Pizza & Deli at $17.95. The typical price across town is $21.00, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Napoli's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.05 apart, which is 39% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 scampi in 7 other areas and compare them all on chicken scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $22.15 at the median, so New City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $16.01 at Stelton Pizza in Piscataway, NJ, and the highest best price is $20.00 in Somerset, NJ. The nearest area with it is Fair Lawn, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $18.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken scampi in New City? Danny's Pizza & Deli, at $17.95 on 368 New Hempstead Rd. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.05.

What should chicken scampi cost here? About $21.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in New City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Fair Lawn, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $18.50. That is $0.55 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.