Cheeseburger in Phoenix

6 restaurants in Phoenix list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Country Boys Restaurant at $9.99. The typical price across town is $16.64, and the dearest we found is $17.95 at Carlos O'Brien's Mexican Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $7.96 apart, which is 80% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.23 at the median, so Phoenix is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 336. 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 Tucson, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $13.00.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Phoenix? Country Boys Restaurant, at $9.99 on 3508 West Cactus Road. The same dish reaches $17.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.96.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $16.64 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Phoenix that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Tucson, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $13.00. That is $3.01 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.