3 restaurants in Brookside list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Andiamo's Pizzeria at $10.95. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $32.50 at Pizza Palace of Randolph, so the two ends of the list are $21.55 apart, which is 197% 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 baked ziti in 459 other areas and compare them all on baked ziti across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Brookside is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 131 of the 459. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.10 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $21.00 in Stoneham, MA. The nearest area with it is Jersey City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.00.
Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Brookside? Andiamo's Pizzeria, at $10.95 on 1250 Sussex Turnpike. The same dish reaches $32.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $21.55.
What should baked ziti cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Brookside 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 Jersey City, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $7.00. That is $3.95 less than the best here, though whether that is worth the journey is your call.
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.
| Area | Best price | Typical | Places |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brookside, NJ this page |
$10.95 | $17.00 | 3 |
| Jersey City, NJ
Prince of Pizza · about 2 mi away |
$7.00 | $12.95 | 16 |
| Dover, NJ
Table 42 / Restaurant 42 · about 4 mi away |
$12.55 | $16.95 | 4 |
| Morris Plains, NJ
Tony's Pizza · about 5 mi away |
$12.95 | $14.95 | 4 |
| Franklin, NJ
Luigi's Restaurant and Pizza · about 5 mi away |
$12.95 | $15.95 | 5 |
| Morristown, NJ
Morris Pizzeria · about 6 mi away |
$12.10 | $16.95 | 7 |
| Rockaway, NJ
Tony's Famous Pizzeria · about 6 mi away |
$9.50 | $13.95 | 3 |
| Denville, NJ
Il Torrente's Pizza · about 7 mi away |
$13.20 | $16.00 | 4 |
| Budd Lake, NJ
Uncle Sal's Italian Villa · about 9 mi away |
$11.40 | $16.45 | 3 |
| Whippany, NJ
Whippany Pizzeria · about 10 mi away |
$10.95 | $15.00 | 4 |
| Madison, NJ
Romanelli's Pizza & Italian Eatery · about 10 mi away |
$9.95 | $12.95 | 3 |
| Boonton, NJ
Bako's Pizza · about 10 mi away |
$13.45 | $17.50 | 4 |
| Hackettstown, NJ
Frank's Trattoria · about 13 mi away |
$10.36 | $15.95 | 4 |
Items are grouped by dish, so names vary a little between restaurants. Each price is what that menu listed on the date shown beside it, not a daily special, so a restaurant may have changed it since. The typical price is the middle of every price we hold for this dish in Brookside.