Chicken Roll in Riverhead

3 restaurants in Riverhead list chicken roll on their menus. The cheapest is Cucina 25 at $8.00. The typical price across town is $11.00, and the dearest we found is $13.50 at Rocco's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 69% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 roll in 87 other areas and compare them all on chicken roll across United States. The typical price there runs $10.75 at the median, so Riverhead is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 30 of the 87. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.60 at Michael & Sons Italian Food & Pizza in Flushing, NY, and the highest best price is $12.99 in Virginia Beach, VA. The nearest area with it is Mastic Beach, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest chicken roll in Riverhead? Cucina 25, at $8.00 on 12 W Main St. The same dish reaches $13.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should chicken roll cost here? About $11.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Riverhead 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 Mastic Beach, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $0.50 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.