Buffalo Chicken in Rochester

3 restaurants in Rochester list buffalo chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Mr. Pizza North at $12.00. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at The Tap House — West End, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 67% 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 buffalo chicken in 8 other areas and compare them all on buffalo chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $17.00 at the median, so Rochester is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Phil's 2 Pizza in Massapequa Park, NY, and the highest best price is $17.00 in Minneapolis, MN. The nearest area with it is Minneapolis, about 76 mi away, where the best price is $17.00.

Where is the cheapest buffalo chicken in Rochester? Mr. Pizza North, at $12.00 on 4040 28th St NW. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should buffalo chicken cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Rochester 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 Minneapolis, about 76 mi away, where the best price is $17.00. That is $5.00 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.