Burrito in Phoenix

9 restaurants in Phoenix list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Las Glorias Grill at $7.99, listed as Bean & Cheese Burrito. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at Blue Agave, so the two ends of the list are $9.00 apart, which is 113% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 105 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Phoenix is about average, with a lower typical price than 50 of the 105. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Glendale, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Phoenix? Las Glorias Grill, at $7.99 on 7835 North 19th Avenue. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.00.

What should burrito cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Phoenix that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Glendale, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. 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.