Burger in Baltimore

18 restaurants in Baltimore list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Chicago Pizza & Grill at $4.99, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $8.40, and the dearest we found is $12.49 at Filippo's Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $7.50 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 6 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 213 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 176 of the 213. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tony's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Elkridge, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest burger in Baltimore? Chicago Pizza & Grill, at $4.99 on 2753 Edmondson Ave. The same dish reaches $12.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.50.

What should burger cost here? About $8.40 is the typical price across the 18 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 Elkridge, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $2.00 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.