Cheeseburger in Boston

20 restaurants in Boston list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Ugi's Subs at $5.50. The typical price across town is $11.95, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Crispy Dough Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $13.49 apart, which is 245% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 9 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 cheeseburger in 341 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.23 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 149 of the 341. 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 Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.50.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Boston? Ugi's Subs, at $5.50 on 68 Warren St. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.49.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $11.95 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 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 Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $6.50. 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.