Chicken Tenders in San Francisco

10 restaurants in San Francisco list chicken tenders on their menus. The cheapest is Brothers Pizza at $7.99. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $16.10 at Presidio Pizza Company, so the two ends of the list are $8.11 apart, which is 102% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track chicken tenders in 215 other areas and compare them all on chicken tenders across United States. The typical price there runs $11.00 at the median, so San Francisco is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 39 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Little Dog Diner in Norfolk, VA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Lancaster, PA. The nearest area with it is San Jose, about 44 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest chicken tenders in San Francisco? Brothers Pizza, at $7.99 on 3627 Taraval St. The same dish reaches $16.10 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.11.

What should chicken tenders cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in San Francisco that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 San Jose, about 44 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $2.00 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.