Lasagna in Bristol

9 restaurants in Bristol list lasagna on their menus. The cheapest is Empire Pizza & Grill at $14.95, listed as Baked Lasagna. The typical price across town is $17.50, and the dearest we found is $21.25 at Tomato & Garlic Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $6.30 apart, which is 42% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 2 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge 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 Bristol is about average, with a lower typical price than 296 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 Southington, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.75.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Bristol? Empire Pizza & Grill, at $14.95 on 182 Pine St. The same dish reaches $21.25 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $6.30.

What should lasagna cost here? About $17.50 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Bristol that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are more than a dollar below that and 2 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 Southington, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $16.75. That is $1.80 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.