Patty Melt in Greensboro

4 restaurants in Greensboro list patty melt on their menus. The cheapest is Oakcrest Family Restaurant at $8.49. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $15.95 at Porter House Burger Company, so the two ends of the list are $7.46 apart, which is 88% 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 patty melt in 10 other areas and compare them all on patty melt across United States. The typical price there runs $15.00 at the median, so Greensboro is about average, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 10. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.00 at Fine Company in Las Vegas, NV, and the highest best price is $15.50 in Wilmington, NC. The nearest area with it is Wilmington, about 169 mi away, where the best price is $15.50.

Where is the cheapest patty melt in Greensboro? Oakcrest Family Restaurant, at $8.49 on 2435 Battleground Ave. The same dish reaches $15.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.46.

What should patty melt cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Greensboro 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 Wilmington, about 169 mi away, where the best price is $15.50. That is $7.01 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.