Quesadilla in Nanaimo

3 restaurants in Nanaimo list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Gina's Mexican Cafe at $6.00. The typical price across town is $12.99, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Mrs. Riches Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $12.99 apart, which is 216% 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 quesadilla in 31 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.99 at the median, so Nanaimo is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Varsha Indian Kitchen in Victoria, BC, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Vancouver, about 62 km away, where the best price is $9.75.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Nanaimo? Gina's Mexican Cafe, at $6.00 on 47 Skinner St. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.99.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $12.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Nanaimo 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 Vancouver, about 62 km away, where the best price is $9.75. That is $3.75 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.