Burrito in Long Beach

3 restaurants in Long Beach list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Denny's at $8.99, listed as Grand Slam® Burrito. The typical price across town is $20.99, and the dearest we found is $27.00 at The 908 @ LBX, so the two ends of the list are $18.01 apart, which is 200% 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 burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Long Beach is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Orange, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Long Beach? Denny's, at $8.99 on 5570 E Pacific Coast Hwy. The same dish reaches $27.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $18.01.

What should burrito cost here? About $20.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Long Beach 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 Orange, about 18 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. 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.