Chicken Gyro in Roslindale

3 restaurants in Roslindale list chicken gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Checkmate Cafe at $8.95. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $12.50 at Roslindale House of Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.55 apart, which is 40% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 0 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 gyro in 40 other areas and compare them all on chicken gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Roslindale is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 34 of the 40. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Hook Fish & Chicken in Cincinnati, OH, and the highest best price is $15.95 in Wildwood, NJ. The nearest area with it is Cambridge, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest chicken gyro in Roslindale? Checkmate Cafe, at $8.95 on 900 South St. The same dish reaches $12.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.55.

What should chicken gyro cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Roslindale that list it. Of the ones listed above, 0 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 Cambridge, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $1.05 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.