Calamari in Swift Current

3 restaurants in Swift Current list calamari on their menus. The cheapest is Modern Family Restaurant at $12.50. The typical price across town is $17.49, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at K MOTEL & STEAKHOUSE RESTAURANT, so the two ends of the list are $6.49 apart, which is 52% 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 calamari in 16 other areas and compare them all on calamari across Canada. The typical price there runs $19.00 at the median, so Swift Current is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 12 of the 16. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.00 at Joe Muer Seafood in Windsor, ON, and the highest best price is $16.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Saskatoon, about 219 km away, where the best price is $15.00.

Where is the cheapest calamari in Swift Current? Modern Family Restaurant, at $12.50 on 49 Central Ave N. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.49.

What should calamari cost here? About $17.49 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Swift Current 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 Saskatoon, about 219 km away, where the best price is $15.00. That is $2.50 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.