Cheeseburger in Los Angeles

10 restaurants in Los Angeles list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Asparagus Pizza at $7.75. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $15.75 at Alessandros Pizza Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 103% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge 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 Los Angeles is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 180 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 Pasadena, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Los Angeles? Asparagus Pizza, at $7.75 on 1809 N Cahuenga Blvd. The same dish reaches $15.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Pasadena, about 14 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $3.24 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.