Burger in Des Moines

5 restaurants in Des Moines list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Zombie Burger + Bird at $7.50, listed as HAMBURGER. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $15.95 at Iowa Beef Steakhouse, so the two ends of the list are $8.45 apart, which is 113% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 213 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Des Moines is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 43 of the 213. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tony's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Rockford, about 239 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest burger in Des Moines? Zombie Burger + Bird, at $7.50 on 300 East Grand Avenue. The same dish reaches $15.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.45.

What should burger cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Des Moines that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Rockford, about 239 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is $0.51 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.

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.