Burger in Pittsburgh

11 restaurants in Pittsburgh list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Maietta's Restaurant at $4.70, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $8.49, and the dearest we found is $14.49 at La Bella Pizza & Gyro, so the two ends of the list are $9.79 apart, which is 208% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 215 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Pittsburgh is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 176 of the 215. 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 Bel Air, about 147 mi away, where the best price is $5.99.

Where is the cheapest burger in Pittsburgh? Maietta's Restaurant, at $4.70 on 203 Brownsville Rd. The same dish reaches $14.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.79.

What should burger cost here? About $8.49 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Pittsburgh that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Bel Air, about 147 mi away, where the best price is $5.99. That is $1.29 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.