Nachos in Chelsea

3 restaurants in Chelsea list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is Khelsea's Pizza at $6.89. The typical price across town is $9.99, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at El Kiosco, so the two ends of the list are $8.11 apart, which is 118% 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 74 other areas and compare them all on nachos across United States. The typical price there runs $12.95 at the median, so Chelsea is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 70 of the 74. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.29 at Fat Cats in Westminster, CO, and the highest best price is $13.89 in Spokane, WA. The nearest area with it is Boston, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Chelsea? Khelsea's Pizza, at $6.89 on 158 Washington Ave. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.11.

What should nachos cost here? About $9.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Chelsea 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 Boston, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.11 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.