Mozzarella Sticks in Cambridge

9 restaurants in Cambridge list mozzarella sticks on their menus. The cheapest is Skampa at $8.90. The typical price across town is $10.55, and the dearest we found is $12.95 at Half Shell Pizza & More, so the two ends of the list are $4.05 apart, which is 46% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 5 sit within a dollar of it and 3 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 $9.90 at the median, so Cambridge is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 187 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 Somerville, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest mozzarella sticks in Cambridge? Skampa, at $8.90 on 424 Cambridge St. The same dish reaches $12.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.05.

What should mozzarella sticks cost here? About $10.55 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Cambridge that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is 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 Somerville, about 1 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $0.09 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.