Burrito in Springfield

6 restaurants in Springfield list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is La Fiesta at $4.15, listed as Ground Beef Burrito. The typical price across town is $8.99, and the dearest we found is $15.00 at Rancho Chico | Mexican, so the two ends of the list are $10.85 apart, which is 261% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burrito in 108 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Springfield is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 103 of the 108. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Casa Linda in Columbia, SC, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Saint Louis, about 86 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Springfield? La Fiesta, at $4.15 on 2830 East Stevenson Drive. The same dish reaches $15.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.85.

What should burrito cost here? About $8.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Springfield that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Saint Louis, about 86 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $3.85 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.