Chicken Tenders in Ottawa

4 restaurants in Ottawa list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is Miss Bean Café at $13.90. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $18.49 at Montana's BBQ & Bar - Barrhaven, so the two ends of the list are $4.59 apart, which is 33% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 tenders in 12 other areas and compare them all on chicken tenders across Canada. The typical price there runs $18.99 at the median, so Ottawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 12. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.49 at Tuk Tuk Thai in Calgary, AB, and the highest best price is $17.99 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Mississauga, about 370 km away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in Ottawa? Miss Bean Café, at $13.90 on 87 Murray St. The same dish reaches $18.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.59.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Mississauga, about 370 km away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $2.10 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.