Piccata in Budd Lake

3 restaurants in Budd Lake list piccata on their menus. The cheapest is Uncle Sal's Italian Villa at $11.95, listed as Chicken Piccata Lunch. The typical price across town is $20.95, and the dearest we found is $24.95 at Branda's Italian Grill, so the two ends of the list are $13.00 apart, which is 109% 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 piccata in 154 other areas and compare them all on piccata across United States. The typical price there runs $22.00 at the median, so Budd Lake is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 95 of the 154. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $9.95 at Joe's Pizza, Pasta & Subs in Fort Worth, TX, and the highest best price is $26.50 in Hampton Bays, NY. The nearest area with it is Hackettstown, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.46.

Where is the cheapest piccata in Budd Lake? Uncle Sal's Italian Villa, at $11.95 on 375 US 46. The same dish reaches $24.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.00.

What should piccata cost here? About $20.95 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Budd Lake 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 Hackettstown, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $12.46. That is $0.51 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.