Gyoza in Charleston

3 restaurants in Charleston list gyoza on their menus. The cheapest is King Street Foods at $5.00. The typical price across town is $10.00, and the dearest we found is $11.00 at O-Ku Sushi, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 120% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track gyoza in 2 other areas and compare them all on gyoza across United States. The typical price there runs $9.00 at the median, so Charleston is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Raku Sushi & Asian Bistro in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $7.00 in Portland, OR. The nearest area with it is Austin, about 1056 mi away, where the best price is $5.00.

Where is the cheapest gyoza in Charleston? King Street Foods, at $5.00 on 347 King Street. The same dish reaches $11.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should gyoza cost here? About $10.00 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 0 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 Austin, about 1056 mi away, where the best price is $5.00. That is the same as 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.