Lamb Gyro in Norfolk

5 restaurants in Norfolk list lamb gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Tony’s deli and diner at $8.99. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at New York Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 78% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track lamb gyro in 16 other areas and compare them all on lamb gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $10.99 at the median, so Norfolk is about average, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 16. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Castello Pizza 2 in Columbus, OH, and the highest best price is $11.99 in Reisterstown, MD. The nearest area with it is Chesapeake, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $9.49.

Where is the cheapest lamb gyro in Norfolk? Tony’s deli and diner, at $8.99 on 3200 Tidewater Dr. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should lamb gyro cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Norfolk 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 Chesapeake, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $9.49. That is $0.50 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.