Tuna Salad Sandwich in Baltimore

15 restaurants in Baltimore list tuna salad sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Chicago Pizza & Grill at $5.99. The typical price across town is $8.80, and the dearest we found is $12.49 at Dimitri's Carry Out, so the two ends of the list are $6.50 apart, which is 109% more for the same dish. Of the 15 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track tuna salad sandwich in 4 other areas and compare them all on tuna salad sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Baltimore is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Palmisano's of Parkville in Parkville, MD, and the highest best price is $8.99 in Fredericksburg, VA. The nearest area with it is Parkville, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest tuna salad sandwich in Baltimore? Chicago Pizza & Grill, at $5.99 on 2753 Edmondson Ave. The same dish reaches $12.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.50.

What should tuna salad sandwich cost here? About $8.80 is the typical price across the 15 kitchens in Baltimore that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Parkville, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $1.00 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.