Breakfast Sandwich in Cambridge

3 restaurants in Cambridge list breakfast sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Area Four at $7.50. The typical price across town is $13.50, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Grafton Street Pub & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $7.50 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track breakfast sandwich in 7 other areas and compare them all on breakfast sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $16.00 at the median, so Cambridge is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.24 at Space Room Lounge in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is South Boston, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest breakfast sandwich in Cambridge? Area Four, at $7.50 on 500 Technology Square. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.50.

What should breakfast sandwich cost here? About $13.50 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Cambridge that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 South Boston, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $5.50 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.