Pizza Bread in Chicago

28 restaurants in Chicago list pizza bread on their menus. The cheapest is L & L Pizzeria at $4.00. The typical price across town is $6.50, and the dearest we found is $12.00 at Williams Inn Pizza & Sports Bar, so the two ends of the list are $8.00 apart, which is 200% more for the same dish. Of the 28 kitchens listed, 9 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 10 sit within a dollar of it and 9 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza bread in 4 other areas and compare them all on pizza bread across United States. The typical price there runs $7.00 at the median, so Chicago is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 3 of the 4. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.30 at Vincenzo's Pizza in Rockford, IL, and the highest best price is $5.89 in Elgin, IL. The nearest area with it is Elmhurst, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.50.

Where is the cheapest pizza bread in Chicago? L & L Pizzeria, at $4.00 on 1858 W Pershing Rd. The same dish reaches $12.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $8.00.

What should pizza bread cost here? About $6.50 is the typical price across the 28 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 9 are more than a dollar below that and 9 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 Elmhurst, about 12 mi away, where the best price is $4.50. That is $0.50 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.