Stuffed Shells in Bethlehem

8 restaurants in Bethlehem list stuffed shells on their menus. The cheapest is Broad St Pizzeria at $12.95. The typical price across town is $20.95, and the dearest we found is $45.00 at Vincenza's Italian Pizzeria & Trattoria, so the two ends of the list are $32.05 apart, which is 247% more for the same dish. Of the 8 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 3 charge more than a dollar over.

We track stuffed shells in 250 other areas and compare them all on stuffed shells across United States. The typical price there runs $16.45 at the median, so Bethlehem is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 4 of the 250. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.50 at Mr P Pizza & Pasta in North Wales, PA, and the highest best price is $20.10 in West Springfield, MA. The nearest area with it is Allentown, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $13.95.

Where is the cheapest stuffed shells in Bethlehem? Broad St Pizzeria, at $12.95 on 516 W Broad St. The same dish reaches $45.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $32.05.

What should stuffed shells cost here? About $20.95 is the typical price across the 8 kitchens in Bethlehem that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Allentown, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $13.95. 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.