Chicken Teriyaki in Vancouver

3 restaurants in Vancouver list chicken teriyaki on their menus. The cheapest is Kaori Izakaya at $14.75. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $17.30 at Momo Sushi, so the two ends of the list are $2.55 apart, which is 17% 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 teriyaki in 1 other area and compare them all on chicken teriyaki across Canada. The typical price there runs $19.99 at the median, so Vancouver is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $18.95 at Yanakee Sushi&BBQ in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Moncton, about 4270 km away, where the best price is $18.95.

Where is the cheapest chicken teriyaki in Vancouver? Kaori Izakaya, at $14.75 on 3043 Main Street. The same dish reaches $17.30 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.55.

What should chicken teriyaki cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Vancouver 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 Moncton, about 4270 km away, where the best price is $18.95. That is $4.20 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.