Burger in Buffalo

10 restaurants in Buffalo list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Ricota's Pizza at $5.49, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $9.00, and the dearest we found is $13.99 at Papa J's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.50 apart, which is 155% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 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 Buffalo is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 147 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 Orchard Park, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $5.59.

Where is the cheapest burger in Buffalo? Ricota's Pizza, at $5.49 on 206 Elk St. The same dish reaches $13.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.50.

What should burger cost here? About $9.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Buffalo that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Orchard Park, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $5.59. That is $0.10 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.