Quesadilla in Washington

23 restaurants in Washington list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Americas Best Wingstop at $6.90, listed as Cheese Quesadilla. The typical price across town is $13.00, and the dearest we found is $21.95 at Mariscos 1133, so the two ends of the list are $15.05 apart, which is 218% more for the same dish. Of the 23 kitchens listed, 12 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge 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 Washington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 79 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 Alexandria, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Washington? Americas Best Wingstop, at $6.90 on 1001 U St NW. The same dish reaches $21.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $15.05.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $13.00 is the typical price across the 23 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 12 are more than a dollar below that and 9 are 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 Alexandria, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $4.09 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.