Bacon in Indianapolis

4 restaurants in Indianapolis list bacon on their menus. The cheapest is Waffle House at $4.45. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $8.00 at Commission Row, so the two ends of the list are $3.55 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 bacon in 2 other areas and compare them all on bacon across United States. The typical price there runs $6.00 at the median, so Indianapolis is about average, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 2. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at The Fox Den in Woburn, MA, and the highest best price is $4.45 in Huntsville, AL. The nearest area with it is Huntsville, about 358 mi away, where the best price is $4.45.

Where is the cheapest bacon in Indianapolis? Waffle House, at $4.45 on 7290 Pendleton Pike. The same dish reaches $8.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.55.

What should bacon cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Indianapolis 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 Huntsville, about 358 mi away, where the best price is $4.45. 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.