Baked Ziti in Buffalo

10 restaurants in Buffalo list baked ziti on their menus. The cheapest is Kennedy Fried Chicken at $7.99. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $19.49 at La Nova Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $11.50 apart, which is 144% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 3 charge 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 Buffalo is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 444 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 Tonawanda, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest baked ziti in Buffalo? Kennedy Fried Chicken, at $7.99 on 1393 Kensington Ave. The same dish reaches $19.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.50.

What should baked ziti cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Buffalo that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 3 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 Tonawanda, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $3.00 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.