Pizza in Carol Stream

4 restaurants in Carol Stream list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Rosati's Pizza at $8.99, listed as Thin Crust Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $15.95, and the dearest we found is $18.99 at Sir Nick's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $10.00 apart, which is 111% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 2 charge 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 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Carol Stream is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 212 of the 1058. 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 West Chicago, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Carol Stream? Rosati's Pizza, at $8.99 on 877 E Geneva Rd. The same dish reaches $18.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.00.

What should pizza cost here? About $15.95 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Carol Stream that list it. Of the ones listed above, 2 are 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 West Chicago, about 3 mi away, where the best price is $11.99. 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.