Veggie Burger in St. Catharines

3 restaurants in St. Catharines list veggie burger on their menus. The cheapest is MJ's Own Munchies at $7.00. The typical price across town is $16.79, and the dearest we found is $19.99 at Montana’s BBQ & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $12.99 apart, which is 186% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track veggie burger in 11 other areas and compare them all on veggie burger across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.29 at the median, so St. Catharines is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 11. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.25 at Syl's Neighbourhood Kitchen in North Bay, ON, and the highest best price is $16.79 in Moncton, NB. The nearest area with it is Hamilton, about 40 km away, where the best price is $13.50.

Where is the cheapest veggie burger in St. Catharines? MJ's Own Munchies, at $7.00 on 406 Lakeshore Road. The same dish reaches $19.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $12.99.

What should veggie burger cost here? About $16.79 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in St. Catharines 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 Hamilton, about 40 km away, where the best price is $13.50. That is $6.50 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.