Burger in Detroit

3 restaurants in Detroit list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Mama's Family Restaurant at $6.99, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $10.00, and the dearest we found is $13.00 at Royal Barbecue Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $6.01 apart, which is 86% 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 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 Detroit is about average, with a lower typical price than 105 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 Grand Rapids, about 133 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest burger in Detroit? Mama's Family Restaurant, at $6.99 on 14620 East 8 Mile Road. The same dish reaches $13.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.01.

What should burger cost here? About $10.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Detroit 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 Grand Rapids, about 133 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $5.01 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.