Chicken Nuggets in Philadelphia

86 restaurants in Philadelphia list chicken nuggets on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Papa Nick's Pizza at $4.00. The typical price across town is $7.95, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $7.70 at Mayfair Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.70 apart, which is 92% 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 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 Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 21 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Rizzo's Roast Beef & Pizza in Lowell, MA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Westfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Upper Darby, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $5.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in Philadelphia? Papa Nick's Pizza, at $4.00 on 199 W Godfrey Ave. The same dish reaches $7.70 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.70.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $7.95 is the typical price across the 86 kitchens in Philadelphia 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 Upper Darby, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $5.25. 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.