Burrito in Tucson

4 restaurants in Tucson list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is El Potosino at $6.79, listed as Beef Burrito. The typical price across town is $11.00, and the dearest we found is $14.00 at Whiskey Roads, so the two ends of the list are $7.21 apart, which is 106% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 burrito in 104 other areas and compare them all on burrito across United States. The typical price there runs $13.00 at the median, so Tucson is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 79 of the 104. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.15 at La Fiesta in Springfield, IL, and the highest best price is $16.63 in Santa Monica, CA. The nearest area with it is Gilbert, about 93 mi away, where the best price is $7.50.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Tucson? El Potosino, at $6.79 on 7865 East Speedway Boulevard. The same dish reaches $14.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.21.

What should burrito cost here? About $11.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Tucson that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 Gilbert, about 93 mi away, where the best price is $7.50. That is $0.71 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.