Burger in Bethlehem

7 restaurants in Bethlehem list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Sicily Pizza & Restaurant III at $5.00, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $10.99 at Anna's Brick Oven Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $5.99 apart, which is 120% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 Bethlehem is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 202 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 Catasauqua, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest burger in Bethlehem? Sicily Pizza & Restaurant III, at $5.00 on 4460 Easton Ave. The same dish reaches $10.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.99.

What should burger cost here? About $7.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Bethlehem that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Catasauqua, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $3.00 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.