Shrimp in Salt Lake City

3 restaurants in Salt Lake City list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Maize at $10.50. The typical price across town is $16.95, and the dearest we found is $16.99 at Meno's Mexican Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $6.49 apart, which is 62% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp in 81 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Salt Lake City is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 30 of the 81. 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 Boulder, about 354 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Salt Lake City? Maize, at $10.50 on 151 South Regent Street. The same dish reaches $16.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.49.

What should shrimp cost here? About $16.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Salt Lake City 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 Boulder, about 354 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. 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.