Meatball Sandwich in Chicago

36 restaurants in Chicago list meatball sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Guerrero's Pizza at $5.00. The typical price across town is $9.95, and the dearest we found is $19.49 at Pat's Pizza, so the two ends of the list are $14.49 apart, which is 290% more for the same dish. Of the 36 kitchens listed, 12 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 11 sit within a dollar of it and 13 charge more than a dollar over.

We track meatball sandwich in 34 other areas and compare them all on meatball sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.50 at the median, so Chicago is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 31 of the 34. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Vito's Italian Pizza in Ontario, CA, and the highest best price is $12.00 in Houston, TX. The nearest area with it is Franklin Park, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $7.20.

Where is the cheapest meatball sandwich in Chicago? Guerrero's Pizza, at $5.00 on 2024 S California Ave. The same dish reaches $19.49 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $14.49.

What should meatball sandwich cost here? About $9.95 is the typical price across the 36 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 12 are more than a dollar below that and 13 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 Franklin Park, about 9 mi away, where the best price is $7.20. That is $2.20 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.