Shrimp in Oshawa

5 restaurants in Oshawa list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Madrocks Bar and Grill at $4.00. The typical price across town is $10.50, and the dearest we found is $17.50 at Pho Surpryz Asian Cuisine, so the two ends of the list are $13.50 apart, which is 338% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp in 5 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across Canada. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Oshawa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 5. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.99 at Noodle House 79 in Ottawa, ON, and the highest best price is $8.00 in Whitby, ON. The nearest area with it is Whitby, about 6 km away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Oshawa? Madrocks Bar and Grill, at $4.00 on 81 King Street East. The same dish reaches $17.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.50.

What should shrimp cost here? About $10.50 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Oshawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Whitby, about 6 km away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $4.00 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.