Chicken Scampi in Piscataway

4 restaurants in Piscataway list chicken scampi on their menus. The cheapest is Stelton Pizza at $16.01. The typical price across town is $22.15, and the dearest we found is $24.20 at Piscataway Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.19 apart, which is 51% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 chicken scampi in 7 other areas and compare them all on chicken scampi across United States. The typical price there runs $21.00 at the median, so Piscataway is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $16.99 at Pizza 1 in Stroudsburg, PA, and the highest best price is $20.00 in Somerset, NJ. The nearest area with it is Somerset, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $20.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken scampi in Piscataway? Stelton Pizza, at $16.01 on 1315 Stelton Rd. The same dish reaches $24.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.19.

What should chicken scampi cost here? About $22.15 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Piscataway that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Somerset, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $20.00. That is $3.99 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.