Chicken Nuggets in Newark

11 restaurants in Newark list chicken nuggets on their menus. The cheapest is Jersey Fried Chicken at $5.75. The typical price across town is $7.35, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Casa Nova Grill, so the two ends of the list are $9.20 apart, which is 160% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken nuggets in 32 other areas and compare them all on chicken nuggets across United States. The typical price there runs $8.15 at the median, so Newark is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 24 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Westfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Union City, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in Newark? Jersey Fried Chicken, at $5.75 on 86 Bloomfield Ave. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.20.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $7.35 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Newark that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Union City, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $1.25 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.