Parmigiana in Albany

9 restaurants in Albany list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Crown Fried Chicken & Pizza at $7.80, listed as Chicken Parm. The typical price across town is $14.99, and the dearest we found is $21.82 at Inferno Pizzeria - Loudonville, so the two ends of the list are $14.02 apart, which is 180% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 732 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Albany is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 652 of the 732. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.60 at Savarona Pizzeria & Restaurant in Shirley, NY, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Watervliet, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $11.49.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Albany? Crown Fried Chicken & Pizza, at $7.80 on 28 Central Ave. The same dish reaches $21.82 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.02.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $14.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Albany that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Watervliet, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $11.49. That is $3.69 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.