Roast Beef in Saugus

3 restaurants in Saugus list roast beef on their menus. The cheapest is Nick's Place at $7.75. The typical price across town is $20.99, and the dearest we found is $22.52 at Giovanni's Roast Beef & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $14.77 apart, which is 191% 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 roast beef in 3 other areas and compare them all on roast beef across United States. The typical price there runs $16.50 at the median, so Saugus is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.99 at Giovanni's House of Pizza in Peabody, MA, and the highest best price is $13.25 in Saint Louis, MO. The nearest area with it is Peabody, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest roast beef in Saugus? Nick's Place, at $7.75 on 306 Central St. The same dish reaches $22.52 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.77.

What should roast beef cost here? About $20.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Saugus 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 Peabody, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $0.24 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.