Half Chicken in Toronto

3 restaurants in Toronto list half chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Darosa at $9.49. The typical price across town is $20.49, and the dearest we found is $27.99 at KarachiXpress, so the two ends of the list are $18.50 apart, which is 195% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track half chicken in 2 other areas and compare them all on half chicken across Canada. The typical price there runs $27.99 at the median, so Toronto is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $13.99 at Afghan Grill in Milton, ON, and the highest best price is $20.49 in Mississauga, ON. The nearest area with it is Mississauga, about 17 km away, where the best price is $20.49.

Where is the cheapest half chicken in Toronto? Darosa, at $9.49 on 2853 Dufferin Street. The same dish reaches $27.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $18.50.

What should half chicken cost here? About $20.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Toronto that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Mississauga, about 17 km away, where the best price is $20.49. That is $11.00 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.