Cheeseburger in Albany

6 restaurants in Albany list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Halal Express Chicken & Gyros at $5.49. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $11.99 at Pizza Express, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 118% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.24 at the median, so Albany is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 293 of the 336. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.15.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Albany? Halal Express Chicken & Gyros, at $5.49 on 615 Clinton Ave. The same dish reaches $11.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Albany that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.15. That is $0.66 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.