Fried Shrimp in Meriden

8 restaurants in Meriden list fried shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Honeyspot Pizza 4 at $10.50. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Willy's Pub & Grub, so the two ends of the list are $9.45 apart, which is 90% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track fried shrimp in 46 other areas and compare them all on fried shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $16.95 at the median, so Meriden is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 41 of the 46. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Picatta Pizza & Pasta in Houston, TX, and the highest best price is $21.75 in Montclair, NJ. The nearest area with it is Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest fried shrimp in Meriden? Honeyspot Pizza 4, at $10.50 on 93 Colony St. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.45.

What should fried shrimp cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Meriden that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Wallingford, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $2.49 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.