Cheeseburger in East Brunswick

4 restaurants in East Brunswick list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Stewart's Root Beer at $5.50, listed as Cheeseburger Special. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $14.95 at Pizzalina, so the two ends of the list are $9.45 apart, which is 172% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.23 at the median, so East Brunswick is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 78 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 New Brunswick, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $6.39.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in East Brunswick? Stewart's Root Beer, at $5.50 on 647 NJ-18. The same dish reaches $14.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.45.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in East Brunswick that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 New Brunswick, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $6.39. That is $0.89 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.