Gyro in San Diego

9 restaurants in San Diego list gyro on their menus. The cheapest is Otay Pizza at $9.99. The typical price across town is $15.99, and the dearest we found is $25.20 at Lucca's Pizzeria & Market, so the two ends of the list are $15.21 apart, which is 152% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track gyro in 44 other areas and compare them all on gyro across United States. The typical price there runs $13.75 at the median, so San Diego is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 6 of the 44. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.95 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Dorchester, MA. The nearest area with it is El Cajon, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.99.

Where is the cheapest gyro in San Diego? Otay Pizza, at $9.99 on 2496 Roll Dr. The same dish reaches $25.20 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.21.

What should gyro cost here? About $15.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in San Diego that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 El Cajon, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.99. That is $3.00 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.