Gyro in Alexandria

5 restaurants in Alexandria list gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Boli's at $9.99. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $26.75 at Maggio's, so the two ends of the list are $16.76 apart, which is 168% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track gyro in 44 other areas and compare them all on gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $13.75 at the median, so Alexandria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 18 of the 44. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Fairfax, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest gyro in Alexandria? Pizza Boli's, at $9.99 on 6303 Little River Turnpike. The same dish reaches $26.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $16.76.

What should gyro cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Alexandria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Fairfax, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is the same as 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.