Cheeseburger in Lowell

5 restaurants in Lowell list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Sandwich King at $6.95. The typical price across town is $8.50, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Santoro's Subs & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $12.04 apart, which is 173% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.24 at the median, so Lowell is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 309 of the 336. 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 Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Lowell? Sandwich King, at $6.95 on 361 Bridge St. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.04.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $8.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Lowell that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Dracut, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.04 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.