Gyro in Fairfax

4 restaurants in Fairfax list gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Boli's at $9.99. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Lebanese Kitchen, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track gyro in 44 other areas and compare them all on gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $13.75 at the median, so Fairfax is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 14 of the 44. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is Alexandria, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $9.99.

Where is the cheapest gyro in Fairfax? Pizza Boli's, at $9.99 on 11217 Lee Highway. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should gyro cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Fairfax 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 Alexandria, about 13 mi away, where the best price is $9.99. That is the same as 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.