Caesar in Ann Arbor

3 restaurants in Ann Arbor list caesar on their menus. The cheapest is The Session Room at $7.00. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $13.00 at Heidelberg Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 86% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track caesar in 13 other areas and compare them all on caesar across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Ann Arbor is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Bourbon's Craft Kitchen & Bar in Cincinnati, OH, and the highest best price is $13.00 in Atlanta, GA. The nearest area with it is Indianapolis, about 207 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest caesar in Ann Arbor? The Session Room, at $7.00 on 3685 Jackson Rd. The same dish reaches $13.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should caesar cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Ann Arbor that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Indianapolis, about 207 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $3.00 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.