Fried Chicken Sandwich in New Orleans

3 restaurants in New Orleans list fried chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Stanley Restaurant at $16.00. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $23.00 at The Bell, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 44% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 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 sandwich in 9 other areas and compare them all on fried chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $18.00 at the median, so New Orleans is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Sauce on Bowdoin in Boston, MA, and the highest best price is $16.50 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is Houston, about 326 mi away, where the best price is $16.50.

Where is the cheapest fried chicken sandwich in New Orleans? Stanley Restaurant, at $16.00 on 547 Saint Ann Street. The same dish reaches $23.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should fried chicken sandwich cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in New Orleans that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 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 Houston, about 326 mi away, where the best price is $16.50. That is $0.50 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.