Hot Dog in Stoneham

4 restaurants in Stoneham list hot dog on their menus. The cheapest is J.J. Grimsby & Co. at $5.25. The typical price across town is $6.75, and the dearest we found is $15.49 at Louis Sub Shoppe, so the two ends of the list are $10.24 apart, which is 195% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 hot dog in 3 other areas and compare them all on hot dog across United States. The typical price there runs $7.99 at the median, so Stoneham is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.99 at Big Sharks fish & chicken in Milwaukee, WI, and the highest best price is $5.85 in Malden, MA. The nearest area with it is Malden, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.85.

Where is the cheapest hot dog in Stoneham? J.J. Grimsby & Co., at $5.25 on 1 Lynn Fells Parkway. The same dish reaches $15.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.24.

What should hot dog cost here? About $6.75 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Stoneham 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 Malden, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $5.85. That is $0.60 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.