Cheeseburger in Waterbury

5 restaurants in Waterbury list cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Big Franks BBQ Grill and New York Pizza at $7.59, listed as Single Cheeseburger. The typical price across town is $11.95, and the dearest we found is $16.00 at Whooster Pizza & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $8.41 apart, which is 111% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 cheeseburger in 336 other areas and compare them all on cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $11.23 at the median, so Waterbury is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 147 of the 336. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Dominion Pizza in Lancaster, PA, and the highest best price is $14.99 in Santa Clara, CA. The nearest area with it is Naugatuck, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest cheeseburger in Waterbury? Big Franks BBQ Grill and New York Pizza, at $7.59 on 572 Watertown Ave. The same dish reaches $16.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.41.

What should cheeseburger cost here? About $11.95 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Waterbury 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 Naugatuck, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $4.40 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.