Burger in Carlisle

4 restaurants in Carlisle list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Marcello's Ristorante & Pizza & Catering at $4.20, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $11.78, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Alfredo Pizza & Ristorante, so the two ends of the list are $8.79 apart, which is 209% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 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 Carlisle is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 59 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 Lebanon, about 42 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest burger in Carlisle? Marcello's Ristorante & Pizza & Catering, at $4.20 on 900 Cavalry Rd. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.79.

What should burger cost here? About $11.78 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Carlisle that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Lebanon, about 42 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is $0.05 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.