Chicken Sandwich in Saint Louis

3 restaurants in Saint Louis list chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Fortune Express at $4.95. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $14.50 at Eni's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $9.55 apart, which is 193% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken sandwich in 26 other areas and compare them all on chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Saint Louis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 26. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Italian Garden in Akron, OH, and the highest best price is $10.99 in San Francisco, CA. The nearest area with it is Springfield, about 192 mi away, where the best price is $7.25.

Where is the cheapest chicken sandwich in Saint Louis? Fortune Express, at $4.95 on 6738 Chippewa Street. The same dish reaches $14.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.55.

What should chicken sandwich cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Saint Louis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Springfield, about 192 mi away, where the best price is $7.25. That is $2.30 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.