Pizza in Charlotte

16 restaurants in Charlotte list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Dubai Grills & Pizza at $9.19, listed as Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $14.63, and the dearest we found is $27.99 at Hawthorne's NY Pizza & Bar, so the two ends of the list are $18.80 apart, which is 205% more for the same dish. Of the 16 kitchens listed, 6 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 7 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1060 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Charlotte is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 375 of the 1060. 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 Concord, about 17 mi away, where the best price is $9.40.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Charlotte? Dubai Grills & Pizza, at $9.19 on 1001 E W.T. Harris Blvd Site P. The same dish reaches $27.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $18.80.

What should pizza cost here? About $14.63 is the typical price across the 16 kitchens in Charlotte that list it. Of the ones listed above, 6 are more than a dollar below that and 7 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 $9.40. That is $0.21 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.