Nachos in Atlanta

4 restaurants in Atlanta list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Raging Burrito at $8.25. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Dresden Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $6.70 apart, which is 81% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 nachos in 74 other areas and compare them all on nachos across United States. The typical price there runs $12.95 at the median, so Atlanta is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 44 of the 74. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.29 at Fat Cats in Westminster, CO, and the highest best price is $13.89 in Spokane, WA. The nearest area with it is Lawrenceville, about 29 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Atlanta? Raging Burrito, at $8.25. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.70.

What should nachos cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Atlanta that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Lawrenceville, about 29 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $0.74 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.