BBQ Chicken in Tempe

3 restaurants in Tempe list BBQ chicken on their menus. The cheapest is The Way Station Restaurant & Bar at $15.00. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $17.00 at Freely Taproom & Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $2.00 apart, which is 13% 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 BBQ chicken in 8 other areas and compare them all on BBQ chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $17.00 at the median, so Tempe is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 8. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.50 at Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano in Naperville, IL, and the highest best price is $17.50 in Grand Rapids, MI. The nearest area with it is Phoenix, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $16.75.

Where is the cheapest BBQ chicken in Tempe? The Way Station Restaurant & Bar, at $15.00 on 1929 E Rio Salado Pkwy. The same dish reaches $17.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.00.

What should BBQ chicken cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Tempe 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 Phoenix, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $16.75. That is $1.75 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.