Mozzarella Sticks in Astoria

20 restaurants in Astoria list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is S & S Calabro Pizza at $4.50. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $14.34 at Astoria Pizza Factory, so the two ends of the list are $9.84 apart, which is 219% more for the same dish. Of the 20 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 6 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so Astoria is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 315 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Long Island City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Astoria? S & S Calabro Pizza, at $4.50 on 3065 14 St. The same dish reaches $14.34 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.84.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 20 kitchens in Astoria that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 are more than a dollar below that and 6 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 Long Island City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $6.00. That is $1.50 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.