Parmigiana in Carol Stream

3 restaurants in Carol Stream list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Pizzeria Di Maria at $14.95, listed as Eggplant Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $18.00 at RoccoVino's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $3.05 apart, which is 20% 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 parmigiana in 731 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Carol Stream is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 495 of the 731. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.60 at Savarona Pizzeria & Restaurant in Shirley, NY, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Wheaton, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $15.25.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Carol Stream? Pizzeria Di Maria, at $14.95 on 596 Kuhn Rd. The same dish reaches $18.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.05.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Carol Stream 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 Wheaton, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $15.25. That is $0.30 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.