Burger in Ottawa

4 restaurants in Ottawa list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Hog's Back Restaurant at $6.95, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $15.79, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at MacLaren's on Elgin, so the two ends of the list are $11.05 apart, which is 159% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 13 other areas and compare them all on burger across Canada. The typical price there runs $15.79 at the median, so Ottawa is about average, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 13. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Freddie's Pizza & Donair in Moncton, NB, and the highest best price is $15.79 in Barrie, ON. The nearest area with it is Belleville, about 186 km away, where the best price is $9.50.

Where is the cheapest burger in Ottawa? Hog's Back Restaurant, at $6.95 on 888 Dynes Rd. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.05.

What should burger cost here? About $15.79 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Ottawa that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Belleville, about 186 km away, where the best price is $9.50. That is $2.55 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.