Cheeseburger in Dorchester

8 restaurants in Dorchester list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Pete's Pizza & Seafood at $6.50. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at Charlie's House of Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 177% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.24 at the median, so Dorchester is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 177 of the 336. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Jamaica Plain, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.25.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Dorchester? Pete's Pizza & Seafood, at $6.50 on 267 Bowdoin St. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Dorchester that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Jamaica Plain, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $7.25. That is $0.75 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.