Burrito in Bakersfield

3 restaurants in Bakersfield list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Los Aguacates at $5.95, listed as BEAN & CHEESE BURRITO. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $11.95 at El Portal West, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 101% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Bakersfield is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 99 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Burbank, about 83 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Bakersfield? Los Aguacates, at $5.95. The same dish reaches $11.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should burrito cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Bakersfield 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 Burbank, about 83 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $3.04 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.