Nachos in Charlottetown

3 restaurants in Charlottetown list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Montana’s BBQ & Bar at $18.49, listed as Cheese Nachos. The typical price across town is $22.95, and the dearest we found is $48.00 at Merchantman Fresh Seafood & Oyster Bar, so the two ends of the list are $29.51 apart, which is 160% 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 nachos in 19 other areas and compare them all on nachos across Canada. The typical price there runs $18.95 at the median, so Charlottetown is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 19. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Affy's Premium Grill in Mississauga, ON, and the highest best price is $18.49 in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Moncton, about 103 km away, where the best price is $18.49.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Charlottetown? Montana’s BBQ & Bar, at $18.49 on 31 Babineau Avenue. The same dish reaches $48.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $29.51.

What should nachos cost here? About $22.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Charlottetown 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 Moncton, about 103 km away, where the best price is $18.49. 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.