Quesadilla in Springfield

4 restaurants in Springfield list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is La Fiesta Chatham at $4.00, listed as Cheese Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $9.50, and the dearest we found is $11.00 at Rancho Chico | Mexican, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 175% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 quesadilla in 271 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Springfield is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 253 of the 271. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Don Juan | Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is Saint Louis, about 86 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Springfield? La Fiesta Chatham, at $4.00 on 6901 Preston Drive. The same dish reaches $11.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $9.50 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Springfield 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 Saint Louis, about 86 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is $0.25 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.