Cheesesteak Sandwich in Bristol

3 restaurants in Bristol list cheesesteak sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Donatoss Pizza at $8.24. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $13.70 at Porfirio's Pizza & Pasta, so the two ends of the list are $5.46 apart, which is 66% 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 cheesesteak sandwich in 22 other areas and compare them all on cheesesteak sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.00 at the median, so Bristol is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 21 of the 22. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.25 at Pizzariffic in Reading, PA, and the highest best price is $11.99 in Williamstown, NJ. The nearest area with it is Fairless Hills, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest cheesesteak sandwich in Bristol? Donatoss Pizza, at $8.24 on 3037 Ford Rd. The same dish reaches $13.70 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $5.46.

What should cheesesteak sandwich cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Bristol 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 Fairless Hills, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $0.75 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.