Crispy Chicken Sandwich in Reading

8 restaurants in Reading list crispy chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Maria's Lounge & Restaurant at $6.99. The typical price across town is $9.35, and the dearest we found is $11.95 at Nino's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $4.96 apart, which is 71% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track crispy chicken sandwich in 9 other areas and compare them all on crispy chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $13.47 at the median, so Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 9. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at Sharks Fish & Chicken (S Cooper St) in Arlington, TX, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Catonsville, MD. The nearest area with it is Phoenixville, about 26 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest crispy chicken sandwich in Reading? Maria's Lounge & Restaurant, at $6.99 on 404 Penn St. The same dish reaches $11.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.96.

What should crispy chicken sandwich cost here? About $9.35 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Phoenixville, about 26 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. 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.