Lasagna in Atlantic City

6 restaurants in Atlantic City list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Joe's Famous Hoagies & Steaks Pizza at $14.39. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at AC Island Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.61 apart, which is 25% more for the same dish. Of the 6 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges 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 Atlantic City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 342 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 Northfield, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $14.95.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Atlantic City? Joe's Famous Hoagies & Steaks Pizza, at $14.39 on 3816 Ventnor Ave. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.61.

What should lasagna cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 6 kitchens in Atlantic City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Northfield, about 6 mi away, where the best price is $14.95. That is $0.56 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.