Quesadilla in Whitby

4 restaurants in Whitby list quesadilla on their menus. The cheapest is Lone Star Texas Grill and Cantina at $9.99, listed as Cheese Quesadillas. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $17.25 at The Tap & Tankard, so the two ends of the list are $7.26 apart, which is 73% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track quesadilla in 31 other areas and compare them all on quesadilla across Canada. The typical price there runs $16.99 at the median, so Whitby is about average, with a lower typical price than 8 of the 31. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.00 at Varsha Indian Kitchen in Victoria, BC, and the highest best price is $17.95 in Grande Prairie, AB. The nearest area with it is Oshawa, about 6 km away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest quesadilla in Whitby? Lone Star Texas Grill and Cantina, at $9.99 on 75 Consumers Dr. The same dish reaches $17.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.26.

What should quesadilla cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Whitby that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 0 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 Oshawa, about 6 km away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $4.96 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.