Burrito in Washington

16 restaurants in Washington list burrito on their menus. The cheapest is J & J's Mex-Taqueria at $7.25, listed as Breakfast Burrito. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at The Admiral, so the two ends of the list are $11.70 apart, which is 161% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 5 charge 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 Washington is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 11 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 Arlington, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.00.

Where is the cheapest burrito in Washington? J & J's Mex-Taqueria, at $7.25 on 6231 Georgia Ave NW. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.70.

What should burrito cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Washington that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Arlington, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $9.00. That is $1.75 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.