Burger in Ellicott City

3 restaurants in Ellicott City list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Bare Bones Grill and Brewery at $7.99, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Roma's Pizza & Bagel Bin, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 63% 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 Ellicott City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 78 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 Columbia, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.00.

Where is the cheapest burger in Ellicott City? Bare Bones Grill and Brewery, at $7.99 on 9150 Baltimore National Pike. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should burger cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Ellicott City 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 Columbia, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.00. That is $4.01 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.