Garlic Knots in Budd Lake

3 restaurants in Budd Lake list garlic knots on their menus. The cheapest is Uncle Sal's Italian Villa at $4.25. The typical price across town is $5.80, and the dearest we found is $5.95 at Dino's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $1.70 apart, which is 40% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 0 charge more than a dollar over.

We track garlic knots in 174 other areas and compare them all on garlic knots across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so Budd Lake is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 149 of the 174. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fratelli's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton, NJ, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Hackettstown, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest garlic knots in Budd Lake? Uncle Sal's Italian Villa, at $4.25 on 375 US 46. The same dish reaches $5.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $1.70.

What should garlic knots cost here? About $5.80 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 0 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 Hackettstown, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is $0.25 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.