Tuna Sandwich in Atlantic City

4 restaurants in Atlantic City list tuna sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Maria's Pizzeria at $7.99. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $11.99 at Joe's Famous Hoagies & Steaks Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $4.00 apart, which is 50% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges 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 tuna sandwich in 6 other areas and compare them all on tuna sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $13.99 at the median, so Atlantic City is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 5 of the 6. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $7.25 at Burrito's Pizzeria in Jamaica Plain, MA, and the highest best price is $17.60 in Burbank, CA. The nearest area with it is Bayonne, about 91 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest tuna sandwich in Atlantic City? Maria's Pizzeria, at $7.99 on 405 N Pennsylvania Ave. The same dish reaches $11.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.00.

What should tuna sandwich cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Atlantic City that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Bayonne, about 91 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $1.00 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.