Burger in Allentown

14 restaurants in Allentown list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Palumbo Pizza & Subs at $5.10, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Grumpy's Bar-B-Que Roadhouse, so the two ends of the list are $14.90 apart, which is 292% more for the same dish. Of the 14 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 213 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Allentown is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 183 of the 213. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tony's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Catasauqua, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest burger in Allentown? Palumbo Pizza & Subs, at $5.10 on 1531 Lehigh St. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.90.

What should burger cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 14 kitchens in Allentown that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Catasauqua, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $2.90 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.