Burger in Los Angeles

6 restaurants in Los Angeles list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Sherman Way Grill & Pizza at $6.99, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Chef M, so the two ends of the list are $8.01 apart, which is 115% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 213 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Los Angeles is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 46 of the 213. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tony's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Thousand Oaks, about 29 mi away, where the best price is $13.95.

Where is the cheapest burger in Los Angeles? Sherman Way Grill & Pizza, at $6.99 on 12930 Sherman Way. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.01.

What should burger cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Los Angeles that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Thousand Oaks, about 29 mi away, where the best price is $13.95. That is $6.96 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.