Chicken Cheesesteak in Upper Darby

3 restaurants in Upper Darby list chicken cheesesteak on their menus. The cheapest is Crown Fried Chicken at $9.99. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Sanjha Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 30% 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 chicken cheesesteak in 14 other areas and compare them all on chicken cheesesteak across United States. The typical price there runs $11.99 at the median, so Upper Darby is about average, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 14. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.50 at Giorgio's Pizza in Chester, PA, and the highest best price is $11.99 in Boyertown, PA. The nearest area with it is Darby, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.75.

Where is the cheapest chicken cheesesteak in Upper Darby? Crown Fried Chicken, at $9.99 on 7400 Marshall Rd. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should chicken cheesesteak cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Upper Darby 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 Darby, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $10.75. That is $0.76 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.