Shrimp Marinara in Bethpage

3 restaurants in Bethpage list shrimp marinara on their menus. The cheapest is Villa Maria Pizzeria at $23.50. The typical price across town is $29.00, and the dearest we found is $33.00 at Ciminelli's Pizza & Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 40% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track shrimp marinara in 58 other areas and compare them all on shrimp marinara across United States. The typical price there runs $22.95 at the median, so Bethpage is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 1 of the 58. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $11.99 at Little Italy Annapolis in Annapolis, MD, and the highest best price is $26.95 in Farmingdale, NY. The nearest area with it is Farmingdale, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $26.95.

Where is the cheapest shrimp marinara in Bethpage? Villa Maria Pizzeria, at $23.50 on 376 N Wantagh Ave. The same dish reaches $33.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should shrimp marinara cost here? About $29.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Bethpage 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 Farmingdale, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $26.95. That is $3.45 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.