Chicken Pesto in Poughkeepsie

4 restaurants in Poughkeepsie list chicken pesto on their menus. The cheapest is L & A Cafe at $13.00. The typical price across town is $21.55, and the dearest we found is $23.95 at Giacomo's Pizza Cafe, so the two ends of the list are $10.95 apart, which is 84% 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 pesto in 1 other area and compare them all on chicken pesto across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Poughkeepsie is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $14.00 at Melt in Huntsville, AL. The nearest area with it is Huntsville, about 842 mi away, where the best price is $14.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken pesto in Poughkeepsie? L & A Cafe, at $13.00 on 724 Main St. The same dish reaches $23.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.95.

What should chicken pesto cost here? About $21.55 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Poughkeepsie 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 Huntsville, about 842 mi away, where the best price is $14.00. That is $1.00 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.