Cheeseburger in Cedar Rapids

4 restaurants in Cedar Rapids list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is The Breakfast House at $6.49, listed as Cheeseburger*. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Mulligan's Pub, so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 177% 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 cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.23 at the median, so Cedar Rapids is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 37 of the 336. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Des Moines, about 104 mi away, where the best price is $7.50.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Cedar Rapids? The Breakfast House, at $6.49 on 820 6th Street Southwest. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Cedar Rapids 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 Des Moines, about 104 mi away, where the best price is $7.50. That is $1.01 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.