Burger in Indianapolis

3 restaurants in Indianapolis list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Cugino's Pizza at $7.79, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Mr A Pizza & Wings, so the two ends of the list are $8.20 apart, which is 105% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 burger in 214 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Indianapolis is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 214. 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 Cincinnati, about 100 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest burger in Indianapolis? Cugino's Pizza, at $7.79 on 5124 N Franklin Rd. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.20.

What should burger cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Indianapolis that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Cincinnati, about 100 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $0.21 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.