Parmigiana in Chesapeake

10 restaurants in Chesapeake list parmigiana on their menus. The cheapest is Y Not Italian at $12.86, listed as Chicken Parmigiana. The typical price across town is $16.99, and the dearest we found is $22.00 at Yianni's Neighborhood Pizzeria & Family Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $9.14 apart, which is 71% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 5 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 3 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana in 730 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana across United States. The typical price there runs $18.49 at the median, so Chesapeake is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 494 of the 730. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.25 at Lione's Pizza in Downingtown, PA, and the highest best price is $24.95 in Mount Sinai, NY. The nearest area with it is Norfolk, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $12.86.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana in Chesapeake? Y Not Italian, at $12.86 on 1036 Volvo Parkway. The same dish reaches $22.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.14.

What should parmigiana cost here? About $16.99 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Chesapeake that list it. Of the ones listed above, 5 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 Norfolk, about 11 mi away, where the best price is $12.86. That is the same as 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.