Burger in Philadelphia

101 restaurants in Philadelphia list burger on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Tony's pizza city 2 at $4.50, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $7.45 at Zio's Brickoven Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $2.95 apart, which is 66% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 32 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 213 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Philadelphia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 190 of the 213. 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 Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.50.

Where is the cheapest burger in Philadelphia? Tony's pizza city 2, at $4.50 on 3300 Fairmount Ave K17. The same dish reaches $7.45 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.95.

What should burger cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 101 kitchens in Philadelphia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 32 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 Pennsauken, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $5.50. That is $1.00 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.