Shrimp in Tucson

3 restaurants in Tucson list shrimp on their menus. The cheapest is Thai China Bistro at $6.99. The typical price across town is $8.25, and the dearest we found is $12.99 at Mario's Pizza Tucson, so the two ends of the list are $6.00 apart, which is 86% 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 shrimp in 85 other areas and compare them all on shrimp across United States. The typical price there runs $15.95 at the median, so Tucson is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 78 of the 85. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at El Nopal in Dover, DE, and the highest best price is $19.50 in Revere, MA. The nearest area with it is Phoenix, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $8.00.

Where is the cheapest shrimp in Tucson? Thai China Bistro, at $6.99 on 7940 East Broadway Boulevard. The same dish reaches $12.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.00.

What should shrimp cost here? About $8.25 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Tucson 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 Phoenix, about 115 mi away, where the best price is $8.00. That is $1.01 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.