Calamari in Plano

17 restaurants in Plano list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Fujiya Ramen & Sushi Bar at $8.75, listed as Crispy Calamari. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $21.75 at Earls Kitchen + Bar, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 149% more for the same dish. Of the 17 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 8 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calamari in 493 other areas and compare them all on calamari across United States. The typical price there runs $15.45 at the median, so Plano is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 429 of the 493. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.50 at French Quarter Grille in Austin, TX, and the highest best price is $19.75 in Harwood Heights, IL. The nearest area with it is Garland, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Plano? Fujiya Ramen & Sushi Bar, at $8.75 on 3421 East Renner Road. The same dish reaches $21.75 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should calamari cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 17 kitchens in Plano that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Garland, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is $2.20 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.