Chicken Fingers in Somerville

11 restaurants in Somerville list chicken fingers on their menus. The cheapest is Himalayan Kitchen at $9.75. The typical price across town is $12.25, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Royal Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $8.20 apart, which is 84% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 2 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 chicken fingers in 270 other areas and compare them all on chicken fingers across United States. The typical price there runs $11.50 at the median, so Somerville is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 89 of the 270. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Ozzys Breakfast & Grill II in Philadelphia, PA, and the highest best price is $15.00 in Lancaster, NY. The nearest area with it is Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.95.

Where is the cheapest chicken fingers in Somerville? Himalayan Kitchen, at $9.75 on 40 Bow Street. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.20.

What should chicken fingers cost here? About $12.25 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Somerville that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Cambridge, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $9.95. That is $0.20 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.