Burger in Rockford

4 restaurants in Rockford list burger on their menus. The cheapest is Mr.J's Restaurant & Pizzeria at $6.99, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Schiro's Restaurant & Lounge, so the two ends of the list are $8.01 apart, which is 115% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Rockford is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 35 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 Arlington Heights, about 57 mi away, where the best price is $6.99.

Where is the cheapest burger in Rockford? Mr.J's Restaurant & Pizzeria, at $6.99 on 3701 Auburn Street. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.01.

What should burger cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Rockford that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Arlington Heights, about 57 mi away, where the best price is $6.99. That is the same as 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.