Pizza in Carmel

3 restaurants in Carmel list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Luigi's Famiglia Cucina in Carmel at $8.99, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $13.95 at Prato Restaurant Pizzeria, so the two ends of the list are $4.96 apart, which is 55% 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 pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Carmel is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 813 of the 1060. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.49 at Bellacino's Pizza & Grinders in Troy, MI, and the highest best price is $18.00 in Tacoma, WA. The nearest area with it is Brewster, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $11.95.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Carmel? Luigi's Famiglia Cucina in Carmel, at $8.99 on 62 Gleneida Ave. The same dish reaches $13.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $4.96.

What should pizza cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Carmel 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 Brewster, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $11.95. That is $2.96 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.