Burrito in Madison

6 restaurants in Madison list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Tex Tubb's Taco Palace at $6.50. The typical price across town is $15.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at The Coopers Tavern, so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 177% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 108 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Madison is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 22 of the 108. 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 Milwaukee, about 74 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Madison? Tex Tubb's Taco Palace, at $6.50 on 2009 Atwood Avenue. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should burrito cost here? About $15.00 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Madison that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are 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 Milwaukee, about 74 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.50 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.