Gyro in Boston

9 restaurants in Boston list gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Andrew Square House of Pizza at $12.00. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $21.59 at AK's Takeout & Delivery, so the two ends of the list are $9.59 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track gyro in 44 other areas and compare them all on gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $13.75 at the median, so Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 44. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest gyro in Boston? Andrew Square House of Pizza, at $12.00 on 395 Dorchester St. The same dish reaches $21.59 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.59.

What should gyro cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 $16.00. 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.