Chicken Alfredo in Raleigh

5 restaurants in Raleigh list chicken alfredo on their menus. The cheapest is Bella Roma Pizza at $11.49. The typical price across town is $20.85, and the dearest we found is $28.00 at Jimmy V's Osteria + Bar, so the two ends of the list are $16.51 apart, which is 144% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track chicken alfredo in 33 other areas and compare them all on chicken alfredo across United States. The typical price there runs $19.00 at the median, so Raleigh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 10 of the 33. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.99 at Taco'BoPizza in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $19.99 in Glassboro, NJ. The nearest area with it is Greensboro, about 67 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken alfredo in Raleigh? Bella Roma Pizza, at $11.49 on 800 S New Hope Rd Suite 103. The same dish reaches $28.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.51.

What should chicken alfredo cost here? About $20.85 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Raleigh 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 Greensboro, about 67 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $1.50 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.