Shrimp in Indianapolis

3 restaurants in Indianapolis list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Sushi Den at $4.95. The typical price across town is $7.00, and the dearest we found is $9.95 at Watami Sushi, so the two ends of the list are $5.00 apart, which is 101% 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 shrimp in 81 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Indianapolis is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 78 of the 81. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Chicago, about 161 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Indianapolis? Sushi Den, at $4.95 on 233 South Delaware Street. The same dish reaches $9.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.00.

What should shrimp cost here? About $7.00 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 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 Chicago, about 161 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.05 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.