Jumbo Shrimp in Detroit

6 restaurants in Detroit list jumbo shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Happy's Pizza at $6.99. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Gregg's Pizza & Bar-B-Que, so the two ends of the list are $9.01 apart, which is 129% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track jumbo shrimp in 7 other areas and compare them all on jumbo shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Detroit is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 7. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Maryams Halal Taste of New York in Columbus, OH, and the highest best price is $16.49 in Milwaukee, WI. The nearest area with it is Dearborn, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $13.79.

Where is the cheapest jumbo shrimp in Detroit? Happy's Pizza, at $6.99 on 14365 Livernois. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.01.

What should jumbo shrimp cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Detroit that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Dearborn, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $13.79. That is $6.80 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.