Shrimp in Tampa

4 restaurants in Tampa list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Asiatic at $5.00. The typical price across town is $8.00, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at The Flan Factory, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 260% 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 shrimp in 81 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Tampa is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 75 of the 81. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Butterfly Belly Asian Cuisine in Portland, OR, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Gainesville, about 117 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Tampa? Asiatic, at $5.00 on 1600 East 8th Avenue. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should shrimp cost here? About $8.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Tampa 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 Gainesville, about 117 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $2.00 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.