Ziti in Albany

4 restaurants in Albany list ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Cafe Lark at $7.99. The typical price across town is $12.75, and the dearest we found is $18.54 at Inferno Pizzeria - Loudonville, so the two ends of the list are $10.55 apart, which is 132% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track ziti in 1 other area and compare them all on ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $12.09 at the median, so Albany is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 0 of the 1. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $8.25 at Liberty Pizza in Troy, NY. The nearest area with it is Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $8.25.

Where is the cheapest ziti in Albany? Cafe Lark, at $7.99 on 452 Madison Ave. The same dish reaches $18.54 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.55.

What should ziti cost here? About $12.75 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Albany 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 Troy, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $8.25. That is $0.26 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.