Shrimp in Methuen

4 restaurants in Methuen list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Route 97 House of Pizza at $17.50, listed as Shrimp Plate. The typical price across town is $19.59, and the dearest we found is $20.30 at Oakland Ave Pizza & Subs, so the two ends of the list are $2.80 apart, which is 16% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge 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 Methuen is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 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 Dracut, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $19.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Methuen? Route 97 House of Pizza, at $17.50 on 11 Ayers Village Rd. The same dish reaches $20.30 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.80.

What should shrimp cost here? About $19.59 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Methuen that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 9 mi away, where the best price is $19.00. 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.