Chicken Nuggets in San Diego

9 restaurants in San Diego list chicken nuggets on their menus. The cheapest is Cuscatlán San Diego at $4.70. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $14.99 at Bambino's Pizza & Deli #3 - Lemon Grove, so the two ends of the list are $10.29 apart, which is 219% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 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 chicken nuggets in 32 other areas and compare them all on chicken nuggets across United States. The typical price there runs $8.00 at the median, so San Diego is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Papa Nick's Pizza in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Westfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Richardson, about 1176 mi away, where the best price is $4.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken nuggets in San Diego? Cuscatlán San Diego, at $4.70 on 7516 Mesa College Dr. The same dish reaches $14.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.29.

What should chicken nuggets cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in San Diego that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Richardson, about 1176 mi away, where the best price is $4.99. That is $0.29 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.