Mozzarella Sticks in Buffalo

21 restaurants in Buffalo list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza & Chicken Delights at $4.99. The typical price across town is $8.49, and the dearest we found is $14.29 at JJs Casa Di Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $9.30 apart, which is 186% more for the same dish. Of the 21 kitchens listed, 7 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 7 sit within a dollar of it and 7 charge more than a dollar over.

We track mozzarella sticks in 700 other areas and compare them all on mozzarella sticks across United States. The typical price there runs $9.95 at the median, so Buffalo is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 584 of the 700. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Master's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $11.28 in Lake Grove, NY. The nearest area with it is Tonawanda, about 7 mi away, where the best price is $6.59.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Buffalo? Pizza & Chicken Delights, at $4.99 on 3337 Bailey Ave. The same dish reaches $14.29 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.30.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $8.49 is the typical price across the 21 kitchens in Buffalo that list it. Of the ones listed above, 7 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 $6.59. That is $1.60 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.