Cheeseburger in Jamaica

6 restaurants in Jamaica list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is DNL Pizza Plus at $5.50. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $13.52 at Perfecto Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $8.02 apart, which is 146% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 340 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.25 at the median, so Jamaica is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 296 of the 340. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Forest Hills, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Jamaica? DNL Pizza Plus, at $5.50 on 146-21 Rockaway Blvd. The same dish reaches $13.52 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.02.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Jamaica that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Forest Hills, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $0.49 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.