Burrito in Columbia

3 restaurants in Columbia list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Casa Linda at $4.25. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $13.00 at Publico Kitchen & Tap, so the two ends of the list are $8.75 apart, which is 206% 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 burrito in 106 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Columbia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 105 of the 106. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Charlotte, about 81 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Columbia? Casa Linda, at $4.25 on 2009 N Beltline Blvd. The same dish reaches $13.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.75.

What should burrito cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 3 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 Charlotte, about 81 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $6.74 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.