Chicken Fingers in New York

76 restaurants in New York list chicken fingers on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Randazzo's Pizzeria at $5.50. The typical price across town is $11.50, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $11.45 at Rosebank Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.95 apart, which is 108% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 31 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken fingers in 270 other areas and compare them all on chicken fingers across United States. The typical price there runs $11.50 at the median, so New York is about average, with a lower typical price than 133 of the 270. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Ozzys Breakfast & Grill II in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $15.00 in Lancaster, NY. The nearest area with it is Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest chicken fingers in New York? Randazzo's Pizzeria, at $5.50 on 306 Ditmas Ave. The same dish reaches $11.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.95.

What should chicken fingers cost here? About $11.50 is the typical price across the 76 kitchens in New York that list it. Of the ones listed above, 31 are 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 Maspeth, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $9.95. That is $4.45 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.