Spaghetti And Meatballs in Champaign

4 restaurants in Champaign list spaghetti and meatballs on their menus. The cheapest is Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano at $10.00, listed as SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS. The typical price across town is $16.00, and the dearest we found is $18.95 at Napoli's Italian Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $8.95 apart, which is 90% 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 spaghetti and meatballs in 215 other areas and compare them all on spaghetti and meatballs across United States. The typical price there runs $15.99 at the median, so Champaign is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 102 of the 215. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.40 at Pavone's Pizza in Syracuse, NY, and the highest best price is $22.00 in Delray Beach, FL. The nearest area with it is Naperville, about 113 mi away, where the best price is $11.00.

Where is the cheapest spaghetti and meatballs in Champaign? Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano, at $10.00 on 2235 S. Neil Street Champaign, IL 61820. The same dish reaches $18.95 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.95.

What should spaghetti and meatballs cost here? About $16.00 is the typical price across the 4 kitchens in Champaign 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 Naperville, about 113 mi away, where the best price is $11.00. That is $1.00 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.