Cheeseburger in Baltimore

21 restaurants in Baltimore list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Chicago Pizza & Grill at $4.99. The typical price across town is $9.03, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Filippo's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 180% more for the same dish. Of the 21 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.24 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 277 of the 336. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Halethorpe, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Baltimore? Chicago Pizza & Grill, at $4.99 on 2753 Edmondson Ave. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $9.03 is the typical price across the 21 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Halethorpe, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $4.00 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.