Cheeseburger in Columbia

5 restaurants in Columbia list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Vennari's Pizza & Subs at $8.01. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Eggspectation, so the two ends of the list are $7.99 apart, which is 100% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.23 at the median, so Columbia is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 122 of the 336. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Halethorpe, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Columbia? Vennari's Pizza & Subs, at $8.01 on 7180 Cradlerock Way. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.99.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Columbia 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 Halethorpe, about 10 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $0.98 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.