Nachos in Des Moines

6 restaurants in Des Moines list nachos on their menus. The cheapest is El Bait Shop at $10.99. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Buzzard Billy's, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 45% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge 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 $12.75 at the median, so Des Moines is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 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 Omaha, about 143 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest nachos in Des Moines? El Bait Shop, at $10.99 on 200 Southwest 2nd Street. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should nachos cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Des Moines that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 are 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 Omaha, about 143 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $1.01 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.