Grilled Chicken in Washington

10 restaurants in Washington list grilled chicken on their menus. The cheapest is Morton's The Steakhouse at $7.00. The typical price across town is $19.75, and the dearest we found is $28.00 at El Presidente, so the two ends of the list are $21.00 apart, which is 300% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track grilled chicken in 93 other areas and compare them all on grilled chicken across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Washington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 93. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fresco Market & Catering in Caldwell, NJ, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Chelmsford, MA. The nearest area with it is Alexandria, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken in Washington? Morton's The Steakhouse, at $7.00 on 1050 Connecticut Avenue Northwest. The same dish reaches $28.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $21.00.

What should grilled chicken cost here? About $19.75 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Alexandria, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $5.00 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.