Salmon in Champaign

3 restaurants in Champaign list salmon on their menus. The cheapest is Oishi Hibachi Steak House at $6.00. The typical price across town is $12.75, and the dearest we found is $15.50 at Black Dog Smoke & Ale House, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 158% 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 salmon in 32 other areas and compare them all on salmon across United States. The typical price there runs $19.99 at the median, so Champaign is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 25 of the 32. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Arashi Yama in Gainesville, FL, and the highest best price is $28.00 in Savannah, GA. The nearest area with it is Indianapolis, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest salmon in Champaign? Oishi Hibachi Steak House, at $6.00 on 2501 North Prospect Avenue. The same dish reaches $15.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should salmon cost here? About $12.75 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Champaign 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 Indianapolis, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $9.00 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.