Nachos in Cambridge

7 restaurants in Cambridge list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Chicken Kitchen Cambridge at $10.99, listed as Beef Nachos. The typical price across town is $13.99, and the dearest we found is $20.00 at Thirteen Food & Beverage, so the two ends of the list are $9.01 apart, which is 82% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track nachos in 19 other areas and compare them all on nachos across Canada. The typical price there runs $18.99 at the median, so Cambridge is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 19. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Affy's Premium Grill in Mississauga, ON, and the highest best price is $18.49 in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Hamilton, about 38 km away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Cambridge? Chicken Kitchen Cambridge, at $10.99 on 800 Franklin Blvd Unit C11-12. The same dish reaches $20.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.01.

What should nachos cost here? About $13.99 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Cambridge that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Hamilton, about 38 km away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $5.01 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.