Smash Burger in Charleston

3 restaurants in Charleston list smash burger on their menus. The cheapest is The Tattooed Moose at $7.50. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $15.50 at Big Bad Breakfast, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 107% 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 smash burger in 2 other areas and compare them all on smash burger across United States. The typical price there runs $14.00 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 $10.00 at Southerleigh Haute South in San Antonio, TX, and the highest best price is $13.00 in Greenville, SC. The nearest area with it is Greenville, about 194 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest smash burger in Charleston? The Tattooed Moose, at $7.50. The same dish reaches $15.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should smash burger cost here? About $15.00 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 Greenville, about 194 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $5.50 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.