Cheeseburger in Pittsburgh

18 restaurants in Pittsburgh list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Maietta's Restaurant at $5.75. The typical price across town is $11.24, and the dearest we found is $14.49 at La Bella Pizza & Gyro, so the two ends of the list are $8.74 apart, which is 152% more for the same dish. Of the 18 kitchens listed, 8 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge 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 Pittsburgh is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 167 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 Morgantown, about 56 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Pittsburgh? Maietta's Restaurant, at $5.75 on 203 Brownsville Rd. The same dish reaches $14.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.74.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $11.24 is the typical price across the 18 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 8 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Morgantown, about 56 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $5.24 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.