Burger in Oakland

3 restaurants in Oakland list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Cybelle's Pizza 6 at $7.49, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $10.99 at Pizza Joven, so the two ends of the list are $3.50 apart, which is 47% 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 burger in 214 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.06 at the median, so Oakland is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 118 of the 214. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tony's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is San Francisco, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $7.75.

Where is the cheapest burger in Oakland? Cybelle's Pizza 6, at $7.49 on 3465 Fruitvale Ave. The same dish reaches $10.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.50.

What should burger cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Oakland 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 San Francisco, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $7.75. That is $0.26 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.