Grilled Chicken Sandwich in San Francisco

13 restaurants in San Francisco list grilled chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Golden State Pizza & Grill at $8.99. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $19.75 at David's Delicatessen & Diner, so the two ends of the list are $10.76 apart, which is 120% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track grilled chicken sandwich in 82 other areas and compare them all on grilled chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.49 at the median, so San Francisco is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 16 of the 82. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Giorgio's Pizza in Chester, PA, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Arlington, VA. The nearest area with it is Los Angeles, about 342 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken sandwich in San Francisco? Golden State Pizza & Grill, at $8.99 on 3349 Mission St. The same dish reaches $19.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.76.

What should grilled chicken sandwich cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in San Francisco that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Los Angeles, about 342 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $4.00 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.