Pizza in Cincinnati

10 restaurants in Cincinnati list pizza on their menus. The cheapest is Happy's Pizza at $7.99, listed as Build Your Own Cheese Pizza. The typical price across town is $12.00, and the dearest we found is $17.32 at Luca Pizza di Roma, so the two ends of the list are $9.33 apart, which is 117% more for the same dish. Of the 10 kitchens listed, 4 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 2 sit within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track pizza in 1058 other areas and compare them all on pizza across United States. The typical price there runs $13.95 at the median, so Cincinnati is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 810 of the 1058. 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 Dayton, about 46 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest pizza in Cincinnati? Happy's Pizza, at $7.99 on 1064 W N Bend Rd. The same dish reaches $17.32 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.33.

What should pizza cost here? About $12.00 is the typical price across the 10 kitchens in Cincinnati that list it. Of the ones listed above, 4 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Dayton, about 46 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. 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.