Shrimp in Malden

4 restaurants in Malden list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is New York Pizza at $13.99. The typical price across town is $18.45, and the dearest we found is $23.10 at Brother's Roast Beef & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.11 apart, which is 65% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 shrimp in 81 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Malden is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 18 of the 81. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Revere, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $19.50.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Malden? New York Pizza, at $13.99 on 421 Main St. The same dish reaches $23.10 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.11.

What should shrimp cost here? About $18.45 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Malden 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 Revere, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $19.50. That is $5.51 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.