Grilled Chicken in Ottawa

7 restaurants in Ottawa list grilled chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Made In Chicago Pizza at $5.00. The typical price across town is $11.49, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at MacLaren's on Elgin, so the two ends of the list are $17.00 apart, which is 340% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track grilled chicken in 1 other area and compare them all on grilled chicken across Canada. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Ottawa is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Cramdon's Tap & Eatery in Windsor, ON. The nearest area with it is Windsor, about 675 km away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken in Ottawa? Made In Chicago Pizza, at $5.00 on 1481B Innes Road. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $17.00.

What should grilled chicken cost here? About $11.49 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Windsor, about 675 km away, where the best price is $6.50. That is $1.50 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.