Cheeseburger in Alexandria

6 restaurants in Alexandria list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Tsim Yung at $8.25. The typical price across town is $16.25, and the dearest we found is $17.55 at Al's Steak House, so the two ends of the list are $9.30 apart, which is 113% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 $11.23 at the median, so Alexandria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 9 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 Arlington, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Alexandria? Tsim Yung, at $8.25 on 2603 Mount Vernon Avenue. The same dish reaches $17.55 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.30.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $16.25 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Alexandria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Arlington, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is $1.74 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.