Cheeseburger in Philadelphia

99 restaurants in Philadelphia list cheeseburger on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Torresdale Pizza & Beer at $4.99. The typical price across town is $8.50, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $7.99 at Sorrento Pizzeria & Grill, so the two ends of the list are $3.00 apart, which is 60% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 31 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 9 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 338 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.25 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 311 of the 338. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $5.45.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Philadelphia? Torresdale Pizza & Beer, at $4.99 on 6301 Torresdale Ave. The same dish reaches $7.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.00.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $8.50 is the typical price across the 99 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 31 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Camden, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $5.45. That is $0.46 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.