Burrito in Scranton

5 restaurants in Scranton list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is Denny's at $8.00, listed as Grand Slam® Burrito. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $17.99 at Cinco De Mayo Mexican Restaurant & Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.99 apart, which is 125% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Scranton is about average, with a lower typical price than 50 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Jersey City, about 69 mi away, where the best price is $9.29.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Scranton? Denny's, at $8.00 on 449 Pennsylvania 315. The same dish reaches $17.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.99.

What should burrito cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Scranton that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Jersey City, about 69 mi away, where the best price is $9.29. That is $1.29 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.