Shrimp in Lincoln

3 restaurants in Lincoln list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Tipsy Tina's Tacos Cantina at $4.50. The typical price across town is $6.00, and the dearest we found is $10.00 at Grey Whale Sushi & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $5.50 apart, which is 122% 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 85 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Lincoln is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 85 of the 85. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at El Nopal in Dover, DE, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Kansas City, about 159 mi away, where the best price is $5.79.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Lincoln? Tipsy Tina's Tacos Cantina, at $4.50 on 800 Q Street. The same dish reaches $10.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.50.

What should shrimp cost here? About $6.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Lincoln 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 Kansas City, about 159 mi away, where the best price is $5.79. That is $1.29 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.