Burrito in Durham

4 restaurants in Durham list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is street bites at $5.00. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Clouds Brewing - Durham Brewcade + Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 140% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Durham is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 72 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Greensboro, about 52 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Durham? street bites, at $5.00 on 1903 NC-55. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should burrito cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Durham 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 Greensboro, about 52 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $3.00 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.