Teriyaki Chicken in Phoenix

3 restaurants in Phoenix list teriyaki chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Akaihana at $11.99. The typical price across town is $15.45, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 58% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 teriyaki chicken in 1 other area and compare them all on teriyaki chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Phoenix is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $12.45 at Fire Grill in Charleston, SC. The nearest area with it is Charleston, about 1850 mi away, where the best price is $12.45.

Where is the cheapest teriyaki chicken in Phoenix? Akaihana, at $11.99 on 8041 North Black Canyon Highway. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should teriyaki chicken cost here? About $15.45 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Phoenix that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Charleston, about 1850 mi away, where the best price is $12.45. That is $0.46 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.