Burrito in Malden

3 restaurants in Malden list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Santa Fe Burrito Grill at $8.99, listed as Chicken Burrito. The typical price across town is $10.50, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at New York Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 78% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits 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 Malden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 89 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 Cambridge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Malden? Santa Fe Burrito Grill, at $8.99 on 205 Pleasant Street. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should burrito cost here? About $10.50 is the typical price across the 3 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 Cambridge, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.00. That is $7.01 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.