BBQ Chicken in Portland

5 restaurants in Portland list BBQ chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Bartini at $10.00. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $22.50 at NYC Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $12.50 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track BBQ chicken in 8 other areas and compare them all on BBQ chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $17.00 at the median, so Portland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano in Naperville, IL, and the highest best price is $17.50 in Grand Rapids, MI. The nearest area with it is Denver, about 987 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest BBQ chicken in Portland? Bartini, at $10.00. The same dish reaches $22.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.50.

What should BBQ chicken cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Portland 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 Denver, about 987 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $4.00 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.