Burger in Reading

16 restaurants in Reading list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Giovanna's Pizza at $4.20, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $6.35, and the dearest we found is $11.25 at Paparone's, so the two ends of the list are $7.05 apart, which is 168% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 7 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 213 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Reading is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 210 of the 213. 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 Boyertown, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $5.65.

Where is the cheapest burger in Reading? Giovanna's Pizza, at $4.20 on 5468 Perkiomen Ave. The same dish reaches $11.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.05.

What should burger cost here? About $6.35 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Reading that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 Boyertown, about 15 mi away, where the best price is $5.65. That is $1.45 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.