Calzone in Charlotte

7 restaurants in Charlotte list calzone on their menus. The cheapest is Tony's Pizza & Wings @South Blvd at $9.99, listed as Cheese Calzone. The typical price across town is $14.00, and the dearest we found is $21.85 at Geno D's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $11.86 apart, which is 119% more for the same dish. Of the 7 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track calzone in 747 other areas and compare them all on calzone across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Charlotte is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 212 of the 747. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Catania's Pizza in Yonkers, NY, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Eustis, FL. The nearest area with it is Concord, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $11.25.

Where is the cheapest calzone in Charlotte? Tony's Pizza & Wings @South Blvd, at $9.99 on 4200 South Blvd. The same dish reaches $21.85 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $11.86.

What should calzone cost here? About $14.00 is the typical price across the 7 kitchens in Charlotte that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 are more than a dollar below that and 2 are 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 Concord, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $11.25. That is $1.26 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.