Quesadilla in Phoenix

5 restaurants in Phoenix list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Carlos O'Brien's Mexican Restaurant at $7.95, listed as Quesadillas. The typical price across town is $10.99, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Blue Agave, so the two ends of the list are $5.04 apart, which is 63% 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 quesadilla in 268 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Phoenix is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 200 of the 268. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Don Juan | Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is Scottsdale, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $8.50.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Phoenix? Carlos O'Brien's Mexican Restaurant, at $7.95 on 2501 West Happy Valley Road. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.04.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $10.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Phoenix 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 Scottsdale, about 23 mi away, where the best price is $8.50. That is $0.55 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.