Mozzarella Sticks in Auburn

5 restaurants in Auburn list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Family Time Dine & Play at $6.25. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $9.00 at Gritty McDuff’s — Auburn, so the two ends of the list are $2.75 apart, which is 44% more for the same dish. Of the 5 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 701 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.90 at the median, so Auburn is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 640 of the 701. 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 Manchester, about 98 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Auburn? Family Time Dine & Play, at $6.25 on 550 Center St. The same dish reaches $9.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $2.75.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 5 kitchens in Auburn 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 Manchester, about 98 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.74 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.