Lasagna in Atlanta

8 restaurants in Atlanta list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Mambo Italian Street Food at $8.95, listed as Lasagna Lunch. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $26.95 at Pero's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $18.00 apart, which is 201% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Atlanta is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 562 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is College Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Atlanta? Mambo Italian Street Food, at $8.95 on 2022 Powers Ferry Rd. The same dish reaches $26.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $18.00.

What should lasagna cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Atlanta that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 College Park, about 8 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. That is $3.04 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.