Shrimp in Quincy

6 restaurants in Quincy list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Shabu at $7.25. The typical price across town is $17.99, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at David's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.74 apart, which is 162% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp in 84 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.50 at the median, so Quincy is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 19 of the 84. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Dorchester, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.50.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Quincy? Shabu, at $7.25 on 397 Hancock Street. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.74.

What should shrimp cost here? About $17.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Quincy that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Dorchester, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $13.50. That is $6.25 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.