Chicken Milanese in Watchung

3 restaurants in Watchung list chicken milanese on their menus. The cheapest is Marino's Trattoria at $17.95. The typical price across town is $22.99, and the dearest we found is $25.00 at Grano Pizzeria & Italian Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $7.05 apart, which is 39% 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 chicken milanese in 15 other areas and compare them all on chicken milanese across United States. The typical price there runs $24.00 at the median, so Watchung is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 of the 15. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.85 at Tony's Tacos Garden City in Garden City, NY, and the highest best price is $25.00 in Boca Raton, FL. The nearest area with it is Cranford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $22.74.

Where is the cheapest chicken milanese in Watchung? Marino's Trattoria, at $17.95 on 475 Watchung Ave. The same dish reaches $25.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.05.

What should chicken milanese cost here? About $22.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Watchung 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 Cranford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $22.74. That is $4.79 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.