Buffalo Chicken Cheesesteak in Philadelphia

62 restaurants in Philadelphia list buffalo chicken cheesesteak on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Don Giovanni's II at $8.35. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.95 at Gold Style Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.60 apart, which is 79% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 21 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 19 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track buffalo chicken cheesesteak in 7 other areas and compare them all on buffalo chicken cheesesteak across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Philadelphia is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.95 at The Pizza Stop in Collegeville, PA, and the highest best price is $12.99 in Aston, PA. The nearest area with it is Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest buffalo chicken cheesesteak in Philadelphia? Don Giovanni's II, at $8.35 on 2900 Levick St. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.60.

What should buffalo chicken cheesesteak cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 62 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 21 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 Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. That is $3.60 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.