Quesadilla in Cambridge

10 restaurants in Cambridge list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Chicken Kitchen Cambridge at $7.99, listed as Beef Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Symposium Cafe Restaurant Cambridge, so the two ends of the list are $11.96 apart, which is 150% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track quesadilla in 31 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.99 at the median, so Cambridge is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Varsha Indian Kitchen in Victoria, BC, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Guelph, about 15 km away, where the best price is $14.99.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Cambridge? Chicken Kitchen Cambridge, at $7.99 on 800 Franklin Blvd Unit C11-12. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.96.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Cambridge 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 Guelph, about 15 km away, where the best price is $14.99. That is $7.00 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.