Burrito in Grand Rapids

3 restaurants in Grand Rapids list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Denny's at $8.00, listed as Grand Slam® Burrito. The typical price across town is $14.49, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at New Holland Brewing The Knickerbocker, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 100% 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 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 Grand Rapids is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 34 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 Ann Arbor, about 108 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Grand Rapids? Denny's, at $8.00 on 715 44th St SW. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should burrito cost here? About $14.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Grand Rapids 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 Ann Arbor, about 108 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $2.00 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.