Chicken Tenders in Pittsburgh

30 restaurants in Pittsburgh list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is AJ'S Pizza at $6.65. The typical price across town is $10.39, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Hook Fish & Chicken - Mt Oliver, so the two ends of the list are $13.34 apart, which is 201% more for the same dish. Of the 30 kitchens listed, 11 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 10 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken tenders in 214 other areas and compare them all on chicken tenders across United States. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 145 of the 214. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Little Dog Diner in Norfolk, VA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Lancaster, PA. The nearest area with it is Penn Hills, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in Pittsburgh? AJ'S Pizza, at $6.65 on 3565 Harts Run Rd. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.34.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $10.39 is the typical price across the 30 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 11 are more than a dollar below that and 10 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 Penn Hills, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $2.34 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.