Garlic Knots in Catasauqua

4 restaurants in Catasauqua list garlic knots on their menus. The cheapest is The Catty Corner Neighborhood Pub & Pie at $4.00. The typical price across town is $5.99, and the dearest we found is $7.15 at Catty Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $3.15 apart, which is 79% more for the same dish. Of the 4 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track garlic knots in 174 other areas and compare them all on garlic knots across United States. The typical price there runs $6.95 at the median, so Catasauqua is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 130 of the 174. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Fratelli's Pizza & Pasta in Clifton, NJ, and the highest best price is $9.99 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Allentown, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.25.

Where is the cheapest garlic knots in Catasauqua? The Catty Corner Neighborhood Pub & Pie, at $4.00 on 301 Mulberry St. The same dish reaches $7.15 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $3.15.

What should garlic knots cost here? About $5.99 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Catasauqua 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 Allentown, about 4 mi away, where the best price is $4.25. That is $0.25 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.