Shrimp in Arlington

4 restaurants in Arlington list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is El Arroyo Arlington at $6.99. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $27.00 at Open Road, so the two ends of the list are $20.01 apart, which is 286% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp in 84 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Arlington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 37 of the 84. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Plano, about 43 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Arlington? El Arroyo Arlington, at $6.99. The same dish reaches $27.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $20.01.

What should shrimp cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Arlington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 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 Plano, about 43 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $0.01 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.