Quesadilla in Charleston

3 restaurants in Charleston list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Mario's Italian Grill at $7.99, listed as Cheese Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $11.00, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Bedford Falls, so the two ends of the list are $6.01 apart, which is 75% 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 quesadilla in 268 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Charleston is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 191 of the 268. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Don Juan | Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is Hilton Head Island, about 63 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Charleston? Mario's Italian Grill, at $7.99 on 1300 Savannah Hwy. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.01.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $11.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Charleston 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 Hilton Head Island, about 63 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $0.01 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.