Quesadilla in Waltham

4 restaurants in Waltham list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Franco's Pizzeria & Pub at $8.00, listed as Cheese Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $12.95, and the dearest we found is $19.95 at Margaritas, so the two ends of the list are $11.95 apart, which is 149% 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 quesadilla in 268 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Waltham is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 111 of the 268. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Don Juan | Authentic Mexican Restaurant in Hot Springs, AR, and the highest best price is $16.00 in Babylon, NY. The nearest area with it is Brookline, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.75.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Waltham? Franco's Pizzeria & Pub, at $8.00 on 714 Moody St. The same dish reaches $19.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.95.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $12.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Waltham 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 Brookline, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $12.75. That is $4.75 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.