Meatball Hoagie in Cincinnati

3 restaurants in Cincinnati list meatball hoagie on their menus. The cheapest is Angilo's Pizza - Grace Ave at $6.00. The typical price across town is $7.99, and the dearest we found is $15.50 at Arthur’s Anderson, so the two ends of the list are $9.50 apart, which is 158% more for the same dish. Of the 3 kitchens listed, 1 charges more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 1 charges more than a dollar over.

We track meatball hoagie in 3 other areas and compare them all on meatball hoagie across United States. The typical price there runs $8.99 at the median, so Cincinnati is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 2 of the 3. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.75 at Fox's Pizza Den in Pittsburgh, PA, and the highest best price is $7.99 in Carnegie, PA. The nearest area with it is Carnegie, about 250 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest meatball hoagie in Cincinnati? Angilo's Pizza - Grace Ave, at $6.00 on 6811 Grace Ave. The same dish reaches $15.50 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.50.

What should meatball hoagie cost here? About $7.99 is the typical price across the 3 kitchens in Cincinnati that list it. Of the ones listed above, 1 is more than a dollar below that and 1 is 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 Carnegie, about 250 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.99 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.