Burger in Boston

13 restaurants in Boston list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Ugi's Subs at $5.00, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $10.39, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Hurricane's at the Garden, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 260% more for the same dish. Of the 13 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 4 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 Boston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 100 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 Dorchester, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest burger in Boston? Ugi's Subs, at $5.00 on 68 Warren St. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should burger cost here? About $10.39 is the typical price across the 13 kitchens in Boston that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 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 $7.00. 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.