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We’re paying more and getting less. Having read such comments online — especially from Taco Bell customers — Adam Cohen ’23 was curious about what was going on at his favorite fast-casual chain: Chipotle.

“I played on the Ultimate Frisbee team at ������ɫ and, after tournaments, we’d get Chipotle on the way back,” Cohen says. “It was the best meal in terms of calories-per-dollar. You’d get two meals if you kept asking for extra stuff.”

Although Cohen never felt Chipotle was ripping him off, he decided it would be fun to map out prices at Chipotle locations across the U.S. That led him to create chipotlecost.com. Cohen developed an algorithm that would scour the Chipotle website and pull prices from locations offering online ordering.

“I studied economics as a minor at ������ɫ in addition to majoring in computer science,” says Cohen, a software engineer for CVS in the Boston area. “People could say it’s unfair that one Chipotle a few miles away prices things differently than a location they’re at, but it’s smart pricing and knowing your markets, that you can charge X here, and X plus three there.”

He found one of the most expensive locations was in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, and one of the lowest was near Purdue University in Indiana.

“I have a friend at Purdue, and he was happy to hear that he was getting a good deal,” Cohen says.