Chicken Sandwich in Phoenix

4 restaurants in Phoenix list chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Waffle House at $7.75. The typical price across town is $9.67, and the dearest we found is $15.95 at Carlos O'Brien's Mexican Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $8.20 apart, which is 106% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken sandwich in 27 other areas and compare them all on chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Phoenix is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 17 of the 27. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fortune Express in Saint Louis, MO, and the highest best price is $10.99 in San Francisco, CA. The nearest area with it is Tucson, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $7.75.

Where is the cheapest chicken sandwich in Phoenix? Waffle House, at $7.75 on 4824 East Chandler Boulevard. The same dish reaches $15.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.20.

What should chicken sandwich cost here? About $9.67 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Phoenix that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Tucson, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $7.75. That is the same as 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.