Pizza in Atlantic City

11 restaurants in Atlantic City list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Cafe Di Roma at $6.75, listed as Pan Pizza. The typical price across town is $13.95, and the dearest we found is $33.00 at Forno Roman Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $26.25 apart, which is 389% more for the same dish. Of the 11 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 5 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Atlantic City is about average, with a lower typical price than 522 of the 1058. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Pleasantville, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $10.00.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Atlantic City? Cafe Di Roma, at $6.75 on 1903 Atlantic Ave. The same dish reaches $33.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $26.25.

What should pizza cost here? About $13.95 is the typical price across the 11 kitchens in Atlantic City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 are more than a dollar below that and 5 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 Pleasantville, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $10.00. That is $3.25 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.