Grilled Chicken in Raleigh

4 restaurants in Raleigh list grilled chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Waffle House at $6.25. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $11.20 at Randy's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.95 apart, which is 79% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 grilled chicken in 93 other areas and compare them all on grilled chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Raleigh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 85 of the 93. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fresco Market & Catering in Caldwell, NJ, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Chelmsford, MA. The nearest area with it is Cary, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $6.25.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken in Raleigh? Waffle House, at $6.25 on 2624 WESTINGHOUSE. The same dish reaches $11.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.95.

What should grilled chicken cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Raleigh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Cary, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $6.25. That is the same as 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.