Parmigiana Sandwich in Columbia

9 restaurants in Columbia list parmigiana sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Pizza Boli's at $8.99, listed as Chicken Parmesan Sub. The typical price across town is $11.99, and the dearest we found is $15.99 at Eataliano Market & Deli, so the two ends of the list are $7.00 apart, which is 78% more for the same dish. Of the 9 kitchens listed, 3 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 4 sit within a dollar of it and 2 charge more than a dollar over.

We track parmigiana sandwich in 717 other areas and compare them all on parmigiana sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.25 at the median, so Columbia is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 414 of the 717. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Westie's Pizzeria in Utica, NY, and the highest best price is $14.98 in Moorestown-Lenola, NJ. The nearest area with it is Ellicott City, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.99.

Where is the cheapest parmigiana sandwich in Columbia? Pizza Boli's, at $8.99 on 7060 Oakland Mills Rd. The same dish reaches $15.99 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $7.00.

What should parmigiana sandwich cost here? About $11.99 is the typical price across the 9 kitchens in Columbia that list it. Of the ones listed above, 3 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 Ellicott City, about 5 mi away, where the best price is $10.99. That is $2.00 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.